Smart Economy

The term iBeacon and Beacon are often used interchangeably. iBeacon is the name for Apple’s technology standard, which allows Mobile Apps (running on both iOS and Android devices) to listen for signals from beacons in the physical world and react accordingly. In essence, iBeacon technology allows Mobile Apps to understand their position on a micro-local scale, and deliver hyper-contextual content to users based on location. The underlying communication technology is Bluetooth Low Energy.

Casserole Club helps people share extra portions of home-cooked food with others in their area who might not always be able to cook for themselves. Like a local, community-led takeaway, members serve up meals to their neighbours, getting more people cooking fresh food while strengthening local neighbourhood relationships. Casserole Club helps those who are not online to order meals and connect with local people.

Yummber was launched in autumn 2015. It is a new Hungarian meal-sharing network that offers extra income for people willing to share their home cooked meals with others - and welcoming flats where people searching for old and new flavours can have a great breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Zaarly is the marketplace for small business owners who deliver superior customer service and are looking to grow. We connect you with quality customers, give you tools to grow your business, and provide personal, hands-on support.

Our same-day service platform instantly connects you with skilled Taskers to do your chores, so you can be more productive, every day.

NeighborGoods is a safe community where you can save money and resources by sharing stuff with your friends. Need a ladder? Borrow it from your neighbor. Have a bike collecting dust in your closet? Lend it out and make a new friend.

Borrow the things you need from neighbor The P2P sharing service Peerby wants to offer it’s users the ability to track their lended goods. With a tracker that is specifically developed for them users will always know the whereabouts of their things and it will also track usage of electronic devices.

Ordnance Survey (OS) are working with partners to provide 3D height data solutions for construction professionals, with the aim of revolutionising and underpinning planning visualisation and impact analysis. This will have the potential to feed into BIM workflows.

Making optimum use of land for new homes and jobs is a key challenge to manage London’s growing population. To this end, this tool has been developed to identify major new opportunities for densification in accessible locations across Greater London. The map-based system will be the first to combine data from several different sources to locate major opportunities at an early stage and prior to any planning being significantly advanced.

The development site is subject to several encumbrances, from rights of way and asset protection provisions that arise from the historic and continued presence of railway infrastructure, to leases and licences. GIS is used to monitor building completion dates and make long-term business decisions, such as when to commence the marketing of newly completed buildings. The tool not only allows the mapping of data, but also influences the process of creating new inputs, linking data with reports and external sources of information and sharing information within project teams.