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Shortlist of finalists

Finalists have now been short listed across fifteen categories for the Innovation in Engineering Awards 2007.

 Finalists are listed in alphabetical order.

Asset Management

Sponsored by National Grid

• Continuon
  'The Value of Risk'
  
  
• UMS Group Inc.
  'EDF Energy Investment Optimisation Tool And Process Installation'
  
  
• United Utilities
  'Condition Based Risk Management (CBRM) – Maximising Value for Money from United Utilities’ £300M Asset Replacement Programme'
  
  
• United Utilities PLC
  'Using Condition Monitoring of equipment to reduce costs and pollution incidents by 24%'

Built Environment

Sponsored by Halcrow Yolles

• Andromeda Telematics Ltd.
  'Simplified Commissioning and Maintenance of DALI lighting Systems'
  
  
• The University of Manchester
  'Barratt EcoSmart Show Village'
  
  
• Trox AITCS
  'The Application of CO2 Cooling Mission Critical to Cooling to Investment Banker Dealer Desks (CO2OLdesk^TM )'

Control, Instrumentation and Robotics

Sponsored by National Physical Laboratory

• Artesis LLP
  'Artesis MCM - Simplifying predictive maintenance'
  
  
• BT PLC
  'Rapid ICT Audit'
  
  
• REACT Engineering Ltd.
  'Inverse Radiation Modelling Software for Characterisation of Nuclear Facilities'

Electronics

Sponsored by Cadence

• Toumaz Technology
  'Connected freedom – ultra-low power wireless body monitoring'
  
  
• Phyworks Ltd.
  'An Electronic Dispersion Compensation (EDC) enabled retimer for 10Gbps communication across copper backplanes'
  
  
• Thermoteknix Systems Ltd.
  'The MIRICLE® miniature thermal imaging camera with XTi™ Shutterless Technology'

Emerging Technologies

Sponsored by RS Components

• Akubio
  'Acoustic Detection Technology for Drug Discovery, Diagnostics and Biothreat Detection'
  
  
• BT
  'BT Balance'
  
  
• Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
  'Design and development of phased array imager for detecting breast cancer using diffuse optical tomography'

IT

• BT
  'Real Time Business Intelligence RTBI'
  
  
• Codeplay Software Limited
  'Sieve Parallel Programming System – making software exploit multi-core processors'
  
  

Power / Energy

Sponsored by Siemens

• Moixa Energy Ltd.
  'USBCELL - USB Rechargeable Batteries'
  
  
• PB Power
  'NuGas Power Plant'
  
  
• Porterbrook Leasing Company
  'Hybrid HST - Project Hayabusa'

Product Design

Sponsored by British Telecommunications plc

• Active Power
  'Active Power – Energy Efficient UPS systems'
  
  
• OptiSynx Ltd.
  'An innovative solution for a low cost precision time source meeting the Stratum 1 standard without dependency on external time synchronisation'
  
  
• Triteq Limited
  'The Design and Development of The Cervical Probe - Cancer Diagnostic Probe'

Project Team

• BBC
  'Advanced Terrestrial Television Study Group (ATTSG)'
  
  
• Resonates (on behalf of Sondrel)
  'The Sondrel Project Team'
  
  
• Tube Lines
  'Tube Lines Escalator Smart Step Project'

Security

Sponsored by ARM

• Masabi
  'EncryptME – the world’s only certified mobile Java cryptography'
  
  
• NIST
  'High-Speed Fiber Quantum Key Distribution System'
  
  
• Skyquest
  'Police Helicopter Video Management System'

Software in design

Sponsored by The MathWorks

• I&E Systems Pty Ltd.
  'Use of a software object model to produce the design documentation for a plant control system'
  
  
• QinetiQ
  'An efficient process of developing verified control law implementations'
  
  
• UltraSoC Technologies Ltd.
  'UltraOptimize - Timing analysis and optimisation for real-time embedded systems'

Start-Up

Sponsored by Cre8Ventures

• Mirics Semiconductor
  'Mirics Semiconductor provides RF chips which support all broadcast standards globally – allowing development of global entertainment products, enabling a vast global market'
  
  
• Polymertronics Ltd.
  'Polymertronics is developing a new nanotechnology, ultra-violet curable organic semiconductor'
  
  
• Tvonics
  'Design and manufacture of digital televisions, receivers and recorders for the UK and European markets'

Sustainability

Sponsored by ABB

• Halcrow
  'Wave Hub'
  
  
• IMEC
  'A micromachined piezoelectric energy harvester'
  
  
• The University of Manchester
  'Barratt EcoSmart Show Village'

Telecommunications

Sponsored by Orange

• BT Group
  'Re-feedback – improving bandwidth allocation in the Internet'
  
  
• Quintel Technology Limited
  'QTilt - Multi Tilt Base Station Antenna'
  
  
• Ubiquisys
  'The invention and development of the femtocell'

Transport

Sponsored by Hyder Consulting

• Laser Optical Engineering Ltd.
  'Cyclops Vehicle Occupancy Monitoring'
  
  
• Skyquest
  'Police Helicopter Video Management System'
  
  
• Tube Lines
  'Current analyser'