Case studies
Discover more about nuron, with a selection of our case studies
Fibre in gas pipes
Technical feasibility, design and validate
Opportunity for client:
- Alternative source of revenue
- Hedge against retirement of domestic gas use
- Remote measurement, asset management and security
- Secure communications for control
Scope:
- Technical feasibility of fibre deployment in existing assets
- Design, build, validate and pilot installation techniques
- Value engineer and document specifications and install process
Wastewater monitoring & communications
Sensing solution development with data infrastructure as foundation
Opportunity for client:
- Support digital transformation in a scalable manner
- Data connectivity is future proof and not a throttle on technology adoption or capability
- Automate and control estates centrally with reduced opex
Scope:
- Base requirements capture
- Bottom-up R&D and design with build or buy stage gates in development
- Prototype, integrate and pilot technology
- Value engineer and design for manufacture
Remote equipment management
Data acquisition from unmanaged assets
Opportunity for client:
- Improve visibility of unmanaged components
- Collect statutorily required data
- Integrate with existing central management system
Scope:
- Analyse customer equipment and system
- Identify parameters that can be monitored
- Develop and test software
- Install and test
- Provide dashboard UI for simple operation
Large campus fibre to support private radio network
Design, install and integration
Opportunity for client:
- IoT devices in dense and cluttered environment needs deep fibre
- Using blown techniques provides flexibility for future
- High skill levels required in design and implementation
- Improve productivity, reduce unit cost
Scope:
- Develop installation technique for novel cable
- Document duct installation and cable installation specifications
- Integrate and commission devices
- Train teams for future mass deployment
Electrical system development & integration
Specify, design, integrate and install
Opportunity for client:
- Provision of alternative electrical systems to clients in several sectors
- Energy savings compared to other conventional solutions
- Market differentiation against traditional products
- Monitoring & control system to demonstrate performance superiority
Scope:
- Develop detailed design and specification for system component integration
- Deliver design tool to track customer system performance metrics.
- Embed knowledge into end customer to deliver projects
Research project commercial exploitation
Business model, case and plan development
Opportunity for client:
- Demonstrate societal impact of academic collaboration
- Secure further grant funding through coherent exploitation plan
- Demonstrate triple bottom line value networks
Scope:
- Capture technology capabilities for exploitation
- Build and evaluate financial business models for exploitation
- Develop roadmap for investor engagement
Secure data analytics environment and service
Data infrastructure & portal to deliver data insights directly to customers
Opportunity for client:
- Provide new data analytics and insight services to globally distributed customers.
- Enable all customers to securely upload large data sets for analysis.
- Enable remote analysts to access and work on the data sets to provide insights to customers.
Scope:
- Set up of secure remote server for analysis and data storage
- Creation of web portal for customers to access the system and upload data
- Reporting dashboard to deliver insight directly to customers
Data interpretation for asset management
Data science, analysis and visualisation
Opportunity for client:
- Provision of data analysis & interpretation to end customers
- Grow smart assets business and cross-sell monitoring services
- Become market leaders, agnostic of data acquisition equipment
Scope:
- Capture technical and commercial requirements
- Evaluate existing software for upgrade and development
- Analyse and interpret existing data to demonstrate capabilities
Wireless communication system improvements
Analysis and Roadmap Development
Opportunity for client:
- Improved data rate and lifetime required to improve system capability, operation and life.
- Current system has limited battery life and capability based on data rate.
- System down time & swap out is costly.
Scope:
- Formula to define system performance & ID improvement areas
- Literature review and research of best communication methods
- Evaluation of improvements & roadmap of recommended improvements.
Technology evaluation for hostile environments
Understand, Research, Evaluate and Guide
Opportunity for client:
- Existing technology did not meet long-term operational requirements in extreme operating environment
- A new solution could improve deployments, reduce costs and provide a competitive market advantage
Scope:
- Define client, product and project requirements
- Evaluate availiable and developing technology trends
- Provide succinct technology strategy recommendations for short and long term
