| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.03.2024 | Edinburgh Startup Uses IoT Devices to Improve Fish Farming Sustainability | Aquanzo, in collaboration with CENSIS, Scotland’s premier innovation centre for sensing, imaging, and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, is pioneering the cultivation of artemia, a species of brine shrimp hailed as an optimal protein so... |
| 24.01.2024 | Can New Blueprints Help Scottish Councils Embrace IoT? | A series of technology blueprints have been developed to help Scotland’s local authorities realise the potential of internet of things (IoT) technologies, boosting efficiency and enhancing the delivery of public services.
CENSIS – Scotland’... |
| 03.11.2023 | DIGIT Deal Roundup | October 2023 | Welcome to the latest edition of the DIGIT Deal Roundup.
From funding to underrepresented founders, £3 million to a Scots cleantech, to a groundbreaking metaverse museum experience, you’ll find the standout funding stories from October belo... |
| 10.05.2023 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | April 2023 | Welcome to the latest edition of DIGIT’s monthly Movers and Shakers column.
Movers and Shakers gives you the low-down on recent news in the Scottish tech ecosystem, from recruitment to partnerships to awards.
This month’s column features a ... |
| 05.05.2023 | Scottish Business Network Appointed as GovTech Cluster Driver Organisation | Scottish Business Network has been officially announced as the Cluster Driver Organisation (CDO) for Scotland’s GovTech sector, in a strategic partnership with CENSIS Technology Solutions (CTS) and the CivTech programme.
This appointment co... |
| 07.09.2022 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | August 2022 | Recruitment AND Digital
Tech consultancy AND Digital welcomed five new starts as part of its graduate software development and business apprenticeships programme at Club Almeida in Glasgow.
Working alongside the University of Strathclyde an... |
| 25.07.2022 | Scottish IoT Project to Tackle Road Maintenance Backlog of £1.7bn | A consortium of research partners in Scotland are developing an internet of things (IoT) sensor network that provides real-time monitoring of rural road conditions.
DigiFlec, a start-up based in Dunfermline, is working with CENSIS – Scotlan... |
| 30.06.2022 | CENSIS’ New ‘Io-Tree’ Bug Monitoring System to Tackle Forestry Challenges | Researchers are developing an internet of things (IoT) enabled remote monitoring system that could tackle the perennial risk posed to forestry from pine weevils, one of the biggest biological challenges to the sector.
The system is being cr... |
| 14.06.2022 | Highlands and Islands SMEs Get IoT Adoption Boost with New Initiative | A new initiative will help SMEs in the Highlands and Islands to transform their business through the development or adoption of IoT tech.
Run by CENSIS, the ‘IoT Evolve’ initiative has been funded by the Scottish Government and Highlands an... |
| 18.03.2022 | DIGIT Deal Roundup | February 2022 | Funding and Investment FutureX
Business education and community platform FutureX will expand its Silicon Valley Scale programme after securing funding from the Scottish Government Tech Ecosystem Fund.
With the new funding, the group will be... |
| 01.03.2022 | Filament STAC Adds to Company Cohort at Scottish IoT Accelerator | Filament STAC – the Scottish IoT accelerator aiming to produce scalable companies – has added to its cohort, bringing the total to 14.
Vanora Robots and Aquaponics Garden are the latest additions, with the former designing and manufacturing... |
| 28.02.2022 | New Funding to Expand CENSIS IoT Cybersecurity Programme | Scottish companies will receive a cybersecurity boost from CENSIS, Scotland’s innovation centre for sensing, imaging, and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies.
Thanks to additional funding from the Scottish Government, the group is expandi... |
| 09.02.2022 | M2M Cloud Targets Water Monitoring Device at EU Markets | Dundee-based M2M Cloud is aiming to take its water monitoring device to European markets with IoT innovation centre CENSIS.
The £140,000 project will help the IoT firm to enhance its existing Neptune water monitoring device – which is used ... |
| 03.08.2021 | Smart Things Accelerator Centre Launches in Scottish First | Scotland’s first smart things accelerator centre has launched headed by global big tech leaders including Dyson, Wistron, BlackBerry and Plexus Corp.
The 18-month Filament STAC accelerator will support 10 firms in each cohort and is support... |
| 24.03.2021 | New Commercial Model to Make the Case for Scottish Rural Connectivity | A consortium of organisations will work together to make the case for better connectivity in remote and rural areas in Scotland – starting with healthcare applications in Moray.
IoT firm CENSIS, The Scotland 5G Centre, and the Digital Healt... |
| 08.02.2021 | CENSIS to Promote IoT Cybersecurity with New Initiative | Scotland’s Internet of Things (IoT) centre of excellence CENSIS has delivered a new initiative to help Scottish companies develop cyber-secure IoT products and services.
The IoT Secure service – funded by Scottish Enterprise and the Scottis... |
| 08.01.2021 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | December 2020 | Recruitment Cloud Cover IT
Glasgow-based digital transformation firm Cloud Cover IT has strengthened its developer, commercial and senior leadership teams with the appointment of eight new employees, despite the challenging business environ... |
| 30.11.2020 | Popular Tourist Hotspot Becomes First ‘Smart Village’ on West Highland Way | A popular tourist hotspot on the West Highland Way has become one of the first ‘smart villages’ in Scotland following the deployment of new digital tools.
The village of Gartness near the beginning of the popular trekking route will use a n... |
| 12.11.2020 | DIGIT Deal Roundup Column | October 2020 | Investment and Funding METALtech UK
A metal fabrication SME METALtech UK was announced as the 100th recipient of the Scottish Government’s Digit Development Fund in October.
The Dundee-headquartered company is the latest in a line of firms ... |
| 12.03.2020 | NHS Highland to Use IoT to Aid Efficiency and Enhance Hospital Experience | NHS Highland is set to use IoT at the Lorn & Islands Hospital in Oban, Fort William’s Belford Hospital and Caithness General Hospital in Wick to improve hospital efficiency and enhance the experience of being at hospitals for staff and ... |
| 24.02.2020 | Sensor-Works Launches ‘Fitbit for Machines’ for SMEs | Startup manufacturing firm Sensor-Works, builder of machine condition monitoring systems for the energy sector, has released an entry-level version of its tech, which it says works in a similar way to how Fitbit monitors measure heart rate ... |
| 02.09.2019 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers: August 2019 | Recruitment CENSIS
CENSIS, Scotland’s centre of excellence for sensor and imaging systems and IoT technologies, has appointed knowledge exchange expert Dr Ian Brotherston to its board.
Brotherston joins CENSIS from Innovate UK, where he ser... |
| 28.06.2019 | DIGIT Tech News Roundup: 28th June 2019 | Glasgow data recovery firm accused of negotiating ransom with hacker
In case you missed it…A Glasgow-based #data recovery firm has been accused of negotiating a ransom as part of a sting operation by #cybersecurity researchers. https://t.co... |
| 18.12.2018 | Paul Winstanley Joins CENSIS as New Chief Executive | CENSIS, Scotland’s Innovation Centre for sensing, imaging systems, and IoT technologies, has added a tech stalwart to its team.
Paul Winstanley will assume the role of chief executive at the centre in January, taking over from Ian Reid, CEN... |
| 08.11.2018 | CENSIS Secures £9m to Continue Scottish Innovation Support | CENSIS has received a five-year funding package worth more than £9 million to develop Scotland’s reputation as a global leader in cutting-edge, emerging technology.
The £9.25 million investment will be provided by the Scottish Funding Counc... |
| 08.11.2018 | CENSIS Unveils New Vision Lab at Technology Summit 2018 | More than 400 delegates from academia and industry gathered today in Glasgow to attend CENSIS’s 5th Technology Summit and Conference. The theme of the day was digital disruption and how it can be harnessed to benefit businesses and drive br... |
| 27.08.2018 | Scotland to Launch New £6 Million IoT Network | The new network, called IoT Scotland, will establish a wireless sensor network for applications and services to collect data from devices and send that data without the need for 3G/4G or WiFi – supporting businesses in the development of ne... |
| 22.06.2018 | Transforming Scotland’s Public Services With IoT | The Scottish Wide Area Network (SWAN) is a single, secure, shared network used by Scotland’s public sector. Supplied by Capita IT, the network is used by schools, hospitals, council offices, GP surgeries and pharmacies.
Now Capita and the S... |
| 11.06.2018 | Scottish Government Sets up £500,000 College Innovation Fund | Managed by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), the College Innovation Fund highlights the Scottish Government’s commitment to innovation.
It is hoped that it will forge new and dynamic links between colleges and Scotland’s innovation centre... |
| 30.05.2018 | DIGIT: Movers and Shakers May 2018 | Appointments Women’s Enterprise Scotland
Mark Logan has become the first male ambassador to join Women’s Enterprise Scotland (WES). Logan will be leading a campaign to recruit a new cohort of male ambassadors. Logan, a former Skyscanner exe... |
| 16.05.2018 | Scottish Hospital Adopts IoT to Boost Efficiency | The pilot in Caithness General is the result of a collaborative project between Edinburgh-based technology company Beringar, and CENSIS, the Innovation Centre for Sensor and Imaging Systems.
The team created a system which tags each bed wit... |
| 09.05.2018 | CENSIS Board Welcomes Two New Members | Genoffir Macleod, VP and General Counsel of Thermo Fisher and Professor Steven McLaughlin Head of School, Engineering and Physical Sciences, at Heriot-Watt University have been appointed to the Innovation Centre for Sensor and Imaging Syste... |
| 08.05.2018 | IoT Firm Beringar Looking for £1.2 Million Seed Funding | Edinburgh-based Beringar is one of nine companies to graduate from the R/GA Ventures IoT incubator, announcing plans to raise around £1.2 million in seed funding to meet growing demand.
The IoT Venture Studio incubator, created in partnersh... |
| 06.04.2018 | IoT Innovation Fuelling Eco-Friendly Bus Fleets | Innovative IoT devices will be fuelling buses in Nottingham after FUELlink Systems, A Bellshill-based fuel management firm, has secured a contract with Nottingham City Transport to install smart data collection systems on Nottingham’s lates... |
| 25.01.2018 | Innovation Nation: Science Centre to Showcase Scotland | The Glasgow Science Centre will play host to a new interactive exhibition focusing on innovation and showcase Scotland as a pioneer in emerging technologies.
Idea #59 will explore advances in artificial intelligence (AI), big data, robotics... |
| 23.10.2017 | Can the NHS Use Sensors to Improve Efficiency? | Serving 5 million people across 14 boards, National Health Service Scotland is by far the country’s largest establishment. Keeping operations running smoothly in such a huge organisation has become a constant struggle between budgetary conc... |
| 28.07.2017 | Weekly News Roundup: 28th June 2017 | That’s not to say it’s been entirely hassle free. You may have noticed that last week’s NEWS ROUNDUP was MIA after the DIGIT site vanished mysteriously, during a site migration. We can only apologise. The web elves have been disciplined and... |
| 24.11.2015 | CW selected as IoTUK Boost local partner | CW selected as IoTUK Boost local partner
24-11-2015
Following a competitive application CW (Cambridge Wireless) has been chosen as one of four successful organisations that will deliver IoTUK Boost, a series of local IoT innovation challeng... |
