Scope

The aim of this competition is to:

• support and enable industry-led innovation across the UK supply chain in resilient time, frequency, and synchronisation (TFS), for the development of products, services, and end user applications
• develop a TFS ecosystem and capability for relevant industries and critical national infrastructure
• disrupt and create new markets to improve the provision of TFS

Your project must deliver a feasibility study for an innovative development and demonstrate a route to market.

Projects must be focused on one or more of these development areas relating to the dissemination of TFS:

• products
• services
• protocols and algorithms
• standards

Your project should lead to the following types of impact for the UK:

• economic, including new revenue, cost savings, other economic impacts
• national capability in TFS

During the project, NPL can provide up to 12 hours of free consultancy and free access to highly accurate and traceable time and frequency signals from four locations in the south-east of England. These include an experimental test facility and validation and characterisation capabilities.

Projects that include one or more industry sectors are of interest. Example sectors include but are not limited to, telecommunications, energy, autonomy, finance, smart factories, sensors, the Internet of Things (IoT), broadcast, health, space, and transport including rail, road, aviation, maritime.

Projects involving cross-sector technologies such as those contributing to telecommunication technologies or timing over digital networks are of particular interest.