IoT: Risks and rewards

David Rogers’ Windsor-based company, Copper Horse, has worked on a variety of projects ranging from establishing incident handling processes for a regulator, to creating an anti-fraud solution for a company in the mobile phone industry.

It advises the UK police on mobile phone security and currently has a number of Internet of Things (IoT) projects on the go. One of these is The Motion Project, a study in kinematics (the maths of motion), with the aim of developing a product for doors that allows movements to be detected, analysed and responded to.

It is planned for use in a number of applications such as security monitoring, building access and the monitoring of vulnerable individuals. Copper Horse demonstrated its work at Mobile World Congress back in 2016.

In addition, the company is looking at a trial as part of the project “around dealing with the efficiency of collections of types of waste meat products”. The idea is to combine sensors that determine when bins of offcuts are full, with the algorithms needed to tell the driver the most efficient route between them.