RECENT NEWS AND EVENTS :

1st April 2009
Resilient and Secure Communications - TETRA

Come and see Video over TETRA (T-Surv) in action at the following 2 major events
 1. BAPCO 22-23 April 2009 - Business Design Centre, London.
 2. TETRA World Congress 26-29 May 2009 - International Congress Centre, Munich.

15th March 2009
Resilient and Secure Communications - TETRA

HW begins 2 Special Task Force (STF) contracts with ETSI for improvements to the TETRA Enhanced Data Service (TEDS) standard :
 1. Robust Header Compression
     This investigation seeks to improve the efficiency of the IP protocol over TETRA by use of the ROHC IETF standards (RFC3095,RFC4996)
 2. Long Interleaving
     An investigation of improvments to the physical layer of TEDS in order to improve error performance for higher order modulation schemes.

25th November 2008
Security

The 'DustCart' is showcased at the ICT conference in Lyon 25-28 November 2008. HW is a principle partner in the DustBot project playing a key role in the risk assessment and policy development for securing of the communication infrastructure which is vital for the dispatch and control of the DustBot suite of urban hygiene robots. The DustBot project received a glowing acknowledgement during the conference plenery from MEP Malcolm Harbour "I was delighted to see the robot rubbish collector, now that would really be something to say that ICT is helping to keep our streets clean as well as all the wonderful things that it is doing for us.".

12th September 2008
Assisted Living

The PEARL consortium, lead by leading UK healthcare solutions provider Docobo, has received funding from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), to carry out a 2 year project. Building on a significant, operational telehealth/telecare deployment, PEACE progressively incorporates functions proven in other domains to provide integrated health & social care, allowing health and social care professionals & lay carers to work in harmony to maximise patients' quality of care/life. Click here for the TSB Press Release.

1st June 2008
Privacy

Project EnCoRe formally kicks off. EnCoRe (Ensuring Consent and revocation) lead by HP labs is a 3 1/2 year project to develop new ICT systems in order improve the protection of our personal data. The overall vision of this project is to make giving consent as reliable and easy as turning on a tap, and revoking that consent as reliable and easy as turning it off again. Please visit the EnCoRe websie for the latest news by clicking here.

3rd September 2007
Transport

Notification has been recieved from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) that HW led project OccuTek has been selected for funding. The project start date has been set for the 17th September 2007, and the project duration is planned for 24 months.

OccuTek is an applied research project to investigate and validate the use of mobile phones to verify passenger vehicle occupancy as a means of promoting ride sharing through occupancy related discounts to road usage charging (RUC).  Results will be demonstrated using a car equipped with a RUC device. The objective is to create a low cost, occupant friendly, after market solution that can be widely deployed as an integral part of RUC systems including TDP. This is a highly innovative approach to meet the challenge of reliable occupancy detection - not yet seen in the published literature. It offers a scalable solution that by its very nature works anytime, anywhere without roadside infrastructure. OccuTek also enables occupancy to be utilised in a vast number of applications, including 'step-changes' in E-Call and Adaptive Traffic Management, which shall be demonstrated within the project scope.

3rd September 2007
Transport

Notification has been recieved from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) that project Roset has been short-listed for funding. The project start date has been set for Febuary 2008, and the project duration is planned for 30 months. Roset will concentate upon classifying a robust telematics On-Board Unit (OBU) which may be used for applications such as Road User Charging.

21st August 2007
Location

HW Communications Ltd have been invited to join the DfT/EPSRC funded MESSAGE project, and are involved within activities for accurate sub 30m location determination based upon utilisation of O2 GSM infrastructure. Operation of the novel positioning algorithms developed by HW Communications shall be performed upon Nokia N80 mobile phones.
Bahram Honary, Technical Director of HW Communications states, "MESSAGE provides us with a great opportunity to work alongside the University of Cambridge, O2, Nokia and Symbian to provide significant step-changes in enhanced cellular positioning".

14th June 2007
Location

HW have successfully completed 'alpha' stage testing upon product iPOS^N in Glasgow, UK. The product shall be initially marketed for Lone Worker solutions by PointShift Ltd on the Orange network, and is envisaged to become available in the marketplace from January 2008.

28th May 2007
Resilient and Secure Communications - TETRA

HW Communications Ltd shall be displaying their RADEEM product for Telemedicine at the TETRA World Congress 2007, held at the IFEMA Madrid from Monday 11th to Thursday 14th June.

11th May 2007
Resilient and Secure Communications - TETRA

HW Communications Ltd and Sepura are happy to announce the unification of Sepura's TETRA radio expertise with HW Communications’ specialist know-how in medical telematics within application development activities for Telemedicine over Tetra. Read more

26th January 2007
Resilient and Secure Communications

HW's RADEEM system is formally adopted by Berkeley Training Facility, Rio, Brazil. See RADEEM in action - Open Video.

11th December 2006
Location

HW Communications Ltd have been awarded a Grand Award from the North West Development Agency to enable research into hybrid location determination upon mobile terminals and phones. The project "PEARL" is set to commence in January 2007, and shall be for the duration of one year.

30th January 2006
Resilient and Secure Communications

HW Communications Ltd are proud to present RADEEM system in the lauch of the first medical training centre for oil and Gas Industry in Latin America by UK trade minister, Ian Pearson - Read more.