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Wideblue to demonstrate three new products at CENSIS Technology Summit

Wideblue will demonstrate some of the new products they are working on at the Technology Summit being organised by CENSIS on Thurs 6th October at the Technology Innovation Centre in Glasgow. Wideblue plan to demonstrate the new Impossible I-1 camera which uses Polaroid style film, the MAPS automated pipe scanner and the CRiL personal capnometer. Attendees at the Summit will get the chance to get hands on with the technology and ask questions about their own new product ideas.

Wideblue customer CRiL completes clinical trials with great results delivered from NTC1

Wideblue designed and built a batch of N-Tidal C (NTC1) battery powered personal respiratory monitors in January this year. The devices were used in an observational, longitudinal clinical study at Addenbrookes hospital for COPD sufferers at home and in clinic. The study has now been completed and the results are being analysed. The 30 monitors used in the study collected over 2,600 respiratory records containing more than 50,000 individual breaths. The results are very encouraging. Jeremy Walsh (CEO of CRiL) said, “These innovative new medical devices designed and built by Wideblue performed very well during the study. The COPD patients found them intuitive and easy to use. The NTC1s have delivered very high quality respiratory data from the study. Importantly, the data is accurate and repeatable. We believe that our technology will improve the diagnosis, management and treatment of a wide range of respiratory diseases. Our current focus is to transform the management of COPD, Asthma and CHF.”

Wideblue deliver batch of prototype ophthalmoscopes to Peek

Peek Retina – Turns a mobile phone into an ophthalmoscope.

Wideblue recently delivered a first batch of advanced prototypes of Peek Retina to Peek for evaluation in London and Tanzania. The prototype devices have already been used to correctly identify cases of glaucoma and cataract. Next Wideblue will move onto design for manufacture (DFM), assistance with regulatory approvals and set up a manufacturing supply chain for the new medical device.

Wideblue start new wind turbine blade optical monitoring project

Wideblue are the lead partner in a new Innovate UK project which will develop a camera system to monitor the health of wind turbine blades. The cameras will measure the shape of the wind turbine blades in real time under load in normal and in extreme operating conditions. Wideblue are joined by a team from the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult to help develop the camera system, the exposure method, the environmental protection of the equipment and analysis of the data.

Wideblue wins new Hyperspectral Crop Camera Project

Wideblue are the lead partner in a new Innovate UK project to develop a low cost hyperspectral imaging camera for use by farmers. This ambitious project brings together experts from University of Strathclyde, University of the West of Scotland, James Hutton Institute, Galloway & MacLeod and Wideblue to develop a new low cost Crop Camera. The new product is aimed at providing valuable information to a wide range of farmers about the health of their crop allowing them to make important decisions about irrigation, pests, diseases, inputs and harvest. Currently the use of Hyperspectral Imaging in agriculture is limited to high cost airborne and satellite applications.