What we have delivered

Business services Research Poseidon – modelling the sustainable and responsible approach to the future of fishing Poseidon is an agent-based fishing model, created by The University of Oxford – School of Geography and the Environment in partnership with the charity Ocean Conservancy and Arizona State University. The model is designed to assist fishery managers and policy decision-makers understand trade-offs and identify sustainable fisheries management solutions. The existing model needed an appealing visualization to ensure that the model outputs would be[...]

Sport England’s Active Lives Online tool enables organisations to analyse sport participation data. To streamline the ease of use of this tool our UX Team engaged with users to ensure a revised design was centred on the user experience. Users are now able to build more complex analysis saving time and freeing technical resources for more complex tasks.

Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY) is a young-onset genetic form of diabetes that affects 1-2% of people with diabetes but which is often confused with more common forms of the disease resulting in many patients receiving inappropriate treatment. Working with Exeter University researchers OCC's Innovation Delivery team designed a user-friendly app calculator to help potential suffers ascertain the likelihood of them being MODY along with additional information and tailored advice.

Across the world, demand for chicken meat is steadily increasing, with over 60 billion chickens reared each year. At the same time, farmers are under pressure to improve the welfare of these birds, to use less medication and to reduce the impact on the environment by becoming more efficient. Since both profitability and welfare depend on the health and survival of the birds, it is clear that both chickens and producers benefit from increased chicken health.

Dementia, the name for a group of symptoms that include difficulties with memory, thinking, problem solving, language and perception, is a condition that can affect young and old.

NovaData Solutions, a startup company that specialises in molecular modelling services, created an artificial intelligence platform to simulate the identification of drug candidates. NovaData used OCC to accelerate the development of the KNIME functionality required by their AI-based drug discovery process.

Transport is a rapidly evolving sector following changes in our society, in how we use energy and in the technology available to us.

The dream of harnessing the power of the stars to provide near-limitless clean electricity has remained up to now just that – a dream. In stars like our own Sun, a huge amount of energy and heat is released by nuclear fusion, when the nuclei of atoms collide at very high speeds to create a new, larger nucleus. Most attempts to replicate the process in laboratories, using expensive high-density lasers or magnetic fields and super-hot plasmas, have so far struggled to get to the point at which more energy is produced than put in.

ECMWF is an independent intergovernmental organisation supported by 34 states. It is both a research institute and an operational service, disseminating weather predictions to national meteorological services and commercial customers. Monitoring and refining its modelling techniques and predictions is a core activity for the Centre. A central tool in this endeavour is its Weather Wall, a spectacular array of twelve screens on the wall in the ECMWF Weather Room which displays forecasts alongside actual weather events.

Knowing the gestational age of the foetus is an important aspect of modern maternity care. In the western world, sonographers use high-precision ultrasound scans in the first trimester of pregnancy to estimate gestational age and subsequently help monitor foetal health. But in most lower-middle-income countries, women do not have this early scan and trained sonographers with high-resolution equipment are thin on the ground.

Coronary heart disease is the single most common cause of death before the age of 65 in the UK and affects nearly half the population over the age of 40. The accurate detection of heart problems is therefore of prime importance.

A recent report estimated that some 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are currently generated every day and that figure is rising as business and consumers demand more and more data. Start-up SISP Technologies are developing intelligent data compression technologies to help relieve the bandwidth, storage, transmission times and processing constraints this ever increasing need for data will create.

As the NHS consolidates specialist services in centres of excellence, referrals will tend to increase in number and complexity, requiring multiple individuals within large care teams to work together. The goal of the new system was to enable the efficient sharing of accurate information among specialists and teams spread across the Trust.

Understanding the characteristics of light is essential to a wide range of professionals, from architects to researchers. WaveGo, Wave Illumination’s very portable, high-accuracy handheld spectrometer and its mobile app puts accurate light measurement in the user’s hand.

The largest provider of market intelligence and technology and service solutions in its field turned to OCC to review and improve its knowledge management platform, the internal information and expertise hub used by its employees.

Noise can be a problem in busy intensive care units. OCC has helped to develop a pilot noise awareness system for clinical staff.

A ‘ramp rate study’ has to be carried out for new connections to the National Grid network. OCC has made it easier and quicker to run these studies, cutting completion time and saving National Grid’s customers money.

Pöyry is a world leader in the analysis and modelling of electricity markets. The company’s sophisticated models involve long-term projections of both the physical characteristics of electricity plants and financial information. It turned to OCC to create an outward-facing user friendly interface.

OCC developers working with National Grid engineers have developed a suite of software tools providing fast and accurate modelling of the thermal stresses in circuit components. Allowing transmission operators to respond to system operator requests for a temporary heightened load, without compromising reliability or safety.

Using research software developed by the University of Southampton for modelling thermal properties of cables in tunnels OCC developed a software tool for National Grid Asset Engineers. This enabled the engineers to understand the thermal effects and safe loading limits when planning new cable routings.