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Plymouth Impact Lab Launch
Friday 8th February
The Environmental Futures & Big
Data Impact Lab
3
Environmental Futures
Professor Iain Stewart
Director of the Sustainable Earth Institute at the University of Plymouth
4
5
Big Data
Dr Antonio Rago
Associate Professor University of Plymouth
Director of Centre for Mathematical Sciences
6
What can ‘Big Data’ do for you?
Make data a competitive
advantage
• Leverage unique dataset:
sensors, IoT
• Mine unstructured data:
sentiment analysis
• Image recognition:
classification and data
extraction
• Data integration: ontology
mapping
Take smarter
decisions
• A/B test product
features
• Pattern recognition
• Extreme event
prediction
• Dynamic pricing
Optimize processes
• Data modelling
• Software Robotics
• Fraud detection
• Chat bot
7
CMS supports the Impact Lab
AI
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Gaussian
Processes
Statistics
Experiment design
Time series analysis
Bayesian analysis
Data Mining
Simulations
Monte Carlo
simulations
High Performance
Computing
Computational
Fluid Dynamics
8
Get involved
Courses for Professional
Development (CPD)
• Big Data techniques
• Parallel Programming
• GPU programming
Oxford-style meetings
Cloud Computing
• AWS
• Azure
HPC data center
• On premises supercomputer
9
The Impact Lab Programme
Collaborate. Deliver. Grow.
Robert Kathro
Programme Director
10
Lots to cover
1. What are Environmental Futures & Big Data how we use the terms
2. Why has the lab been launched? What is the driving force?
3. What does the lab do? the deep tech capability and access to data and skills
4. How it works the process
5. And where does it fit in? to the bigger picture
6. What we are working on right now other projects and the pipeline
7. Who is behind the lab partners and what they bring
And ask for some help from you
11
Opportunity for growth.. . ..
But it’s also a strategic imperative….. . . to seize the opportunities
• All pervasive, ever more
affordable, powerful, computing
and communications technology
• Societal trends
• Pollution and environmental concerns
• Need to compete globally
• Need to generate growth and
wealth in the region and
nationally
Opportunity
• New products and
services
• New businesses
• New industries
• Globalisation
• Urbanisation
• De-carbonisation
• Digitisation
• Population growth
12
Human activities, growth, global trends
Scarce resources, pollution, energy, space limits
Agriculture/tech
Engineering
Health & Social Care
Transportation
Space
Manufacturing
Information servicesMarine
Energy, Water
Competeon Core Regional Capability
Enablers
Capabilities
Environmental & Data Sciences, Design, Innovation
Sectors
Driving
Forces
Digital Technologies - HPC, Comms & Networks
Data
13
Conduit to deliver key results for clients
• Deep technical consultancy skills to deliver R&D projects
• Full time staff plus academics and scientists across partners
• Significant and growing data sets
• Innovation managers – help refine the opportunity, define a project
• Work space – Exeter, Plymouth, North Wyke (RRes)
• Grant funding
• Access to network of business support
Simplified access to capabilities, fast response, results delivered
14
Working with the Lab….
We are looking for
• Devon based SMEs with growth objectives
• Academics and scientists with commercialisation opportunities
• Larger businesses with R&D ambitions who are attracted by the
region’s Environmental Futures & Big Data capabilities
Come and talk to us
• To scope a joint project
• To enable you to grow
Collaborate. Deliver. Grow.
15
A special part of a (much) bigger picture
• NATIONAL PRIORITY: UK Industrial Strategy, Alan Turing Institute
Aligned with Heart of the South West Productivity Strategy and Local Industrial Strategy
• BUILDING SKILLS & INFRASTRUCTURE
Data Analytics Skills Escalator approach covering all educational levels; World-leading
development of Data Science Platforms
• IMPROVING RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
Exeter’s Institute of Data Science and AI; Potential for a New Environmental Intelligence
Accelerator and South West Institute of Technology; SW Centre for Excellence in Satellite
Applications and ESA Regional Rep
• ECOSYSTEM SUPPORTING BUSINESS
SETsquared; Exeter Science Park; Innovate UK; Exeter Velocities; FT2G; SWBC; Growth Hub….
Infrastructure; Skills; Experience; Emerging Technology … Great place to grow!
16
Ambitious growth in the next 12 months
Already supporting a high achieving group of SMEs
• Scalable enterprises, new products/services, jobs
• Regional, national and international markets
• Big data and / or Environmental Futures
What we are working on
• New clients coming on board – 12 projects live
• Regional, national and international business development
To help create lasting value and economic growth in the region
17
Help needed
If you are a potential client
• Please do come and talk with one of us
• SME
• Academic or scientist
• Large business
And if you are part of the wider network
• Please think about who you know who would benefit from what the
lab offers
To help create lasting value and economic growth in the region
18
University of Plymouth
Sarah Fear
Project Manager
19
Capabilities
• The University of Plymouth has a number of active research groups
operating in the fields of Big Data and Machine Learning, and is supporting
the delivery of the Impact Lab by aligning activities with its Sustainable
Earth Institute - facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration across the
University with businesses and communities.
• Plymouth also has keen expertise in data visualisation and data
communication - enabling the translation of Big Data into something
usable, useful and relevant to businesses.
• Impact Lab’s clients will have access to a range of Plymouth’s resources,
including:
• Gamification - The Interactive Systems Studios (ISS)
• Digital design and analytics - i-DAT and The Immersive Vision Theatre
20
Case Study
Pulsiv Solar Limited
Dr Mohammed Zaki Ahmed
21
Case Study
• Pulsiv Solar Limited
• Devon based SME, located on the Plymouth Science Park
• Formed in 2015, as a spin out from Plymouth University to commercialise solar
photo voltaic technology
• Unexpected application to LED lighting, making LED lighting systems up to 5%
more efficient.
22
Plymouth College of Art
Oli Raud
Strategic Funding Manager
23
Capabilities
• Plymouth College of Art (PCA) remains one of a few specialist colleges
in the United Kingdom specialising in art and design education.
• The Impact Lab benefits from PCA’s particular strengths in Digital
Media, Rapid Prototyping, Sustainable Design, Data Visualisation,
Interaction Design and App design and Development.
• PCA is also home to FabLab Plymouth; an internationally connected
Digital Fabrication and Design Studio (Makerspace) equipped with 3D
design systems, 3D scanners & printers, CNC milling machines, vinyl
cutters, laser cutters and CNC routers. These facilities are available to
Impact Lab clients to create new products and prototypes.
24
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Tim Fileman
Technical Manager & Centre Manager of The Ballast Water Centre
25
How we work
26
Capabilities
• Globally acknowledged for scientific excellence;
• Contributes to addressing societal challenges of global change, sustainability and pollution;
• Addresses key scientific and socially relevant questions through interdisciplinary research;
• Delivers solutions for national and international marine and coastal programmes;
• Creating some of the most detailed and longest-established marine datasets available;
• PML has:
• Team of over 30 computing, and data visualisation specialists;
• Over 15 ecosystem modelling specialists;
• Large team of socio-economists;
• State of the art facilities and expertise needed to derive information & understanding
from data;
• A core focus for PML is to share knowledge, with industry, policy-makers and fellow scientists;
• Experienced at working with SMEs through its commercial trading subsidiary (PML
Applications Ltd).
27
• Near Real Time Earth Observation
• Harmful Algal Bloom monitoring
• Pollution response
• Illegal fishing /aquaculture
• Primary production
• Web-based GIS
• Airborne Remote Sensing data
processing
• Nitrogen and Carbon cycles
• Atmospheric monitoring for ship emissions / pollution
• Technology field trials
• Bioactives from Microalgae
• Monitoring of plankton and
benthos, molecular biology
• Food web structure dynamics
• Stress responses / Ocean
Acidification
• Blue carbon
• Litter and Microplastics
• Ecosystem modelling
• Fish and fisheries
• Climate and operational
forecast
• Marine Spatial Planning
• Socio – economic impacts and valuation,
• Fisheries economics, tourism & energy,
• Resilience strategies,
• Ecosystem service valuation,
• Decision support tools
Capabilities
28
PML also offers commercial services to the shipping, marine
renewables and other marine industries through its commercial
trading subsidiary PML Applications Ltd.
4 Business Areas:
 Ballast Water Centre
 Centre for Marine Biofouling
and Corrosion
 Environmental Solutions
 Geospatial Applications
29
Wider Partnership capabilities
Exeter University
Met Office
Exeter City Futures
30
7 Partners delivering World Class expertise
Lead Partner University of Exeter:
• 3 full time fellows, Innovation Manager, Marketing, support staff
• Access to all the other disciplines within the University
• Applied Environmental and Data Sciences, Natural capital, Land
Atmospheric & Water Resources, Signal processing/control,
Computing, Machine learning and vision, optimisation
• Follow on collaboration after working with the Lab
Providing full time, dedicated consultancy team, data, work
space (and funding)
31
Met Office Informatics Lab
• 3 full time scientific officers
• Access to Met Office scientists and weather forecasters
• Facilitated access to Met Office data and science
• World leading development of scalable infrastructure and tooling
• Global reach and network
• Co-located with the Impact Lab
Data processing, Analytics, Innovation, Skilled Team
32
To enable transformation of the City
Exeter City Futures at the Lab: 2 key activities
• Build the Exeter City Data Mill
• Key activity
• A repository of data relating to City problems and opportunities
• From wide and growing range of sources
• With interfaces to aid access and use
• Enabling innovative products and services to be developed
• Full time data scientist working on building the data base and the API
• Plus the ECF team working to identify and support innovators who
wish to work with the Lab
Solutions that can be scaled nationally and internationally
33
Rothamsted Research
Khalid Mahmood
Programme Director
34
Research Capabilities-Sustainability
35
Farm Platform-instrumented farm
36
Soil Atmosphere Farm Management
% Moisture Rainfall Field inputs/outputs
Temperature CO2 and N2O Liveweight gain
pH Farm activities
Bulk density Labour hours
N, P & C status Machine hours
Total-P
Ortho-P
Sequential/composite sampler
Water
Temperature
Conductivity
Turbidity
pH
Dissolved O2
Ammonium
Nitrate
Dissolved
organic C
15 flume laboratories
@farmplatform
follow us on
Flow cell & sensors
FP Video
37
Sensors Network: 280
• 15 soil moisture stations: Precipitation, Soil temp (15cm), soil moisture (10/20/30cm).
• Met site: Air temp, RH, Wind speed and direction, solar radiation, ETo. Pluvio RG
• 3 automated gas sampling systems: LICOR: CO2 and N2O.
• Field scale methane emissions: Edyco variance towers
• Green Feed Systems-Methane emissions
38
Ongoing Impact Lab Projects
• Elemental Digest Systems
• RegenFarm
• OTA analytics
• Breedr
39
Future Events and Opportunities
Sarah Fear
Project Manager
40
Panel discussion
Thank you
&
networking opportunity

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The Environmental Futures & Big Data Impact Lab: Plymouth Launch Event Slides

  • 1. Plymouth Impact Lab Launch Friday 8th February
  • 2. The Environmental Futures & Big Data Impact Lab
  • 3. 3 Environmental Futures Professor Iain Stewart Director of the Sustainable Earth Institute at the University of Plymouth
  • 4. 4
  • 5. 5 Big Data Dr Antonio Rago Associate Professor University of Plymouth Director of Centre for Mathematical Sciences
  • 6. 6 What can ‘Big Data’ do for you? Make data a competitive advantage • Leverage unique dataset: sensors, IoT • Mine unstructured data: sentiment analysis • Image recognition: classification and data extraction • Data integration: ontology mapping Take smarter decisions • A/B test product features • Pattern recognition • Extreme event prediction • Dynamic pricing Optimize processes • Data modelling • Software Robotics • Fraud detection • Chat bot
  • 7. 7 CMS supports the Impact Lab AI Machine Learning Deep Learning Gaussian Processes Statistics Experiment design Time series analysis Bayesian analysis Data Mining Simulations Monte Carlo simulations High Performance Computing Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • 8. 8 Get involved Courses for Professional Development (CPD) • Big Data techniques • Parallel Programming • GPU programming Oxford-style meetings Cloud Computing • AWS • Azure HPC data center • On premises supercomputer
  • 9. 9 The Impact Lab Programme Collaborate. Deliver. Grow. Robert Kathro Programme Director
  • 10. 10 Lots to cover 1. What are Environmental Futures & Big Data how we use the terms 2. Why has the lab been launched? What is the driving force? 3. What does the lab do? the deep tech capability and access to data and skills 4. How it works the process 5. And where does it fit in? to the bigger picture 6. What we are working on right now other projects and the pipeline 7. Who is behind the lab partners and what they bring And ask for some help from you
  • 11. 11 Opportunity for growth.. . .. But it’s also a strategic imperative….. . . to seize the opportunities • All pervasive, ever more affordable, powerful, computing and communications technology • Societal trends • Pollution and environmental concerns • Need to compete globally • Need to generate growth and wealth in the region and nationally Opportunity • New products and services • New businesses • New industries • Globalisation • Urbanisation • De-carbonisation • Digitisation • Population growth
  • 12. 12 Human activities, growth, global trends Scarce resources, pollution, energy, space limits Agriculture/tech Engineering Health & Social Care Transportation Space Manufacturing Information servicesMarine Energy, Water Competeon Core Regional Capability Enablers Capabilities Environmental & Data Sciences, Design, Innovation Sectors Driving Forces Digital Technologies - HPC, Comms & Networks Data
  • 13. 13 Conduit to deliver key results for clients • Deep technical consultancy skills to deliver R&D projects • Full time staff plus academics and scientists across partners • Significant and growing data sets • Innovation managers – help refine the opportunity, define a project • Work space – Exeter, Plymouth, North Wyke (RRes) • Grant funding • Access to network of business support Simplified access to capabilities, fast response, results delivered
  • 14. 14 Working with the Lab…. We are looking for • Devon based SMEs with growth objectives • Academics and scientists with commercialisation opportunities • Larger businesses with R&D ambitions who are attracted by the region’s Environmental Futures & Big Data capabilities Come and talk to us • To scope a joint project • To enable you to grow Collaborate. Deliver. Grow.
  • 15. 15 A special part of a (much) bigger picture • NATIONAL PRIORITY: UK Industrial Strategy, Alan Turing Institute Aligned with Heart of the South West Productivity Strategy and Local Industrial Strategy • BUILDING SKILLS & INFRASTRUCTURE Data Analytics Skills Escalator approach covering all educational levels; World-leading development of Data Science Platforms • IMPROVING RESEARCH AND INNOVATION Exeter’s Institute of Data Science and AI; Potential for a New Environmental Intelligence Accelerator and South West Institute of Technology; SW Centre for Excellence in Satellite Applications and ESA Regional Rep • ECOSYSTEM SUPPORTING BUSINESS SETsquared; Exeter Science Park; Innovate UK; Exeter Velocities; FT2G; SWBC; Growth Hub…. Infrastructure; Skills; Experience; Emerging Technology … Great place to grow!
  • 16. 16 Ambitious growth in the next 12 months Already supporting a high achieving group of SMEs • Scalable enterprises, new products/services, jobs • Regional, national and international markets • Big data and / or Environmental Futures What we are working on • New clients coming on board – 12 projects live • Regional, national and international business development To help create lasting value and economic growth in the region
  • 17. 17 Help needed If you are a potential client • Please do come and talk with one of us • SME • Academic or scientist • Large business And if you are part of the wider network • Please think about who you know who would benefit from what the lab offers To help create lasting value and economic growth in the region
  • 18. 18 University of Plymouth Sarah Fear Project Manager
  • 19. 19 Capabilities • The University of Plymouth has a number of active research groups operating in the fields of Big Data and Machine Learning, and is supporting the delivery of the Impact Lab by aligning activities with its Sustainable Earth Institute - facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration across the University with businesses and communities. • Plymouth also has keen expertise in data visualisation and data communication - enabling the translation of Big Data into something usable, useful and relevant to businesses. • Impact Lab’s clients will have access to a range of Plymouth’s resources, including: • Gamification - The Interactive Systems Studios (ISS) • Digital design and analytics - i-DAT and The Immersive Vision Theatre
  • 20. 20 Case Study Pulsiv Solar Limited Dr Mohammed Zaki Ahmed
  • 21. 21 Case Study • Pulsiv Solar Limited • Devon based SME, located on the Plymouth Science Park • Formed in 2015, as a spin out from Plymouth University to commercialise solar photo voltaic technology • Unexpected application to LED lighting, making LED lighting systems up to 5% more efficient.
  • 22. 22 Plymouth College of Art Oli Raud Strategic Funding Manager
  • 23. 23 Capabilities • Plymouth College of Art (PCA) remains one of a few specialist colleges in the United Kingdom specialising in art and design education. • The Impact Lab benefits from PCA’s particular strengths in Digital Media, Rapid Prototyping, Sustainable Design, Data Visualisation, Interaction Design and App design and Development. • PCA is also home to FabLab Plymouth; an internationally connected Digital Fabrication and Design Studio (Makerspace) equipped with 3D design systems, 3D scanners & printers, CNC milling machines, vinyl cutters, laser cutters and CNC routers. These facilities are available to Impact Lab clients to create new products and prototypes.
  • 24. 24 Plymouth Marine Laboratory Tim Fileman Technical Manager & Centre Manager of The Ballast Water Centre
  • 26. 26 Capabilities • Globally acknowledged for scientific excellence; • Contributes to addressing societal challenges of global change, sustainability and pollution; • Addresses key scientific and socially relevant questions through interdisciplinary research; • Delivers solutions for national and international marine and coastal programmes; • Creating some of the most detailed and longest-established marine datasets available; • PML has: • Team of over 30 computing, and data visualisation specialists; • Over 15 ecosystem modelling specialists; • Large team of socio-economists; • State of the art facilities and expertise needed to derive information & understanding from data; • A core focus for PML is to share knowledge, with industry, policy-makers and fellow scientists; • Experienced at working with SMEs through its commercial trading subsidiary (PML Applications Ltd).
  • 27. 27 • Near Real Time Earth Observation • Harmful Algal Bloom monitoring • Pollution response • Illegal fishing /aquaculture • Primary production • Web-based GIS • Airborne Remote Sensing data processing • Nitrogen and Carbon cycles • Atmospheric monitoring for ship emissions / pollution • Technology field trials • Bioactives from Microalgae • Monitoring of plankton and benthos, molecular biology • Food web structure dynamics • Stress responses / Ocean Acidification • Blue carbon • Litter and Microplastics • Ecosystem modelling • Fish and fisheries • Climate and operational forecast • Marine Spatial Planning • Socio – economic impacts and valuation, • Fisheries economics, tourism & energy, • Resilience strategies, • Ecosystem service valuation, • Decision support tools Capabilities
  • 28. 28 PML also offers commercial services to the shipping, marine renewables and other marine industries through its commercial trading subsidiary PML Applications Ltd. 4 Business Areas:  Ballast Water Centre  Centre for Marine Biofouling and Corrosion  Environmental Solutions  Geospatial Applications
  • 29. 29 Wider Partnership capabilities Exeter University Met Office Exeter City Futures
  • 30. 30 7 Partners delivering World Class expertise Lead Partner University of Exeter: • 3 full time fellows, Innovation Manager, Marketing, support staff • Access to all the other disciplines within the University • Applied Environmental and Data Sciences, Natural capital, Land Atmospheric & Water Resources, Signal processing/control, Computing, Machine learning and vision, optimisation • Follow on collaboration after working with the Lab Providing full time, dedicated consultancy team, data, work space (and funding)
  • 31. 31 Met Office Informatics Lab • 3 full time scientific officers • Access to Met Office scientists and weather forecasters • Facilitated access to Met Office data and science • World leading development of scalable infrastructure and tooling • Global reach and network • Co-located with the Impact Lab Data processing, Analytics, Innovation, Skilled Team
  • 32. 32 To enable transformation of the City Exeter City Futures at the Lab: 2 key activities • Build the Exeter City Data Mill • Key activity • A repository of data relating to City problems and opportunities • From wide and growing range of sources • With interfaces to aid access and use • Enabling innovative products and services to be developed • Full time data scientist working on building the data base and the API • Plus the ECF team working to identify and support innovators who wish to work with the Lab Solutions that can be scaled nationally and internationally
  • 36. 36 Soil Atmosphere Farm Management % Moisture Rainfall Field inputs/outputs Temperature CO2 and N2O Liveweight gain pH Farm activities Bulk density Labour hours N, P & C status Machine hours Total-P Ortho-P Sequential/composite sampler Water Temperature Conductivity Turbidity pH Dissolved O2 Ammonium Nitrate Dissolved organic C 15 flume laboratories @farmplatform follow us on Flow cell & sensors FP Video
  • 37. 37 Sensors Network: 280 • 15 soil moisture stations: Precipitation, Soil temp (15cm), soil moisture (10/20/30cm). • Met site: Air temp, RH, Wind speed and direction, solar radiation, ETo. Pluvio RG • 3 automated gas sampling systems: LICOR: CO2 and N2O. • Field scale methane emissions: Edyco variance towers • Green Feed Systems-Methane emissions
  • 38. 38 Ongoing Impact Lab Projects • Elemental Digest Systems • RegenFarm • OTA analytics • Breedr
  • 39. 39 Future Events and Opportunities Sarah Fear Project Manager