Popular TV presenter Rick Edwards hosted the Alice in Wonderland-themed ceremony and announced the winners, who were chosen from nearly 300 initial entries from 25 countries around the world.
Winners included Coventry-based Creavo Medical Technologies, who prevailed in both the Emerging Technology Design and Healthcare Technologies categories. Their cutting-edge non-invasive heart scanner is designed to help physicians accurately rule out serious heart conditions in a matter of minutes, much more rapidly than is currently possible.
Another dual-winner was Navtech Radar, whose automatic incident detection system triumphed in the Transport category as well as Navigation and Surveillance Communication. Unlike traditional technologies, it accurately detects vehicles, pedestrians, animals, and debris in all temperatures, weather conditions, and darkness/smoke/fog/gas along an entire highway. ClearWay enables highways agencies to implement “smart” motorways effectively, helping improve traffic flow and enhance safety.
Other winning entries included:
- An on-body privacy band to improve user awareness of personal information threats in real-time, and enable immediate privacy management, designed by The Open University
- A recycling process for food waste producing high purity biogas, fish feed and waste oil for biodiesel production – leaving no residual waste for disposal, by the Hong Kong Productivity Council
Could it be you next year?
Are you or your team getting innovative in any of our 15 categories? Entries to the 2018 Innovation Awards will open in March, and the submission deadline is 6 July 2018. Don’t forget – it’s free to enter and you can enter multiple categories!
For more information and to see the complete list of winning entries and photos from the night, go to: www.theiet.org/innovation