Sensor Systems Catapult questionnaire

We want to understand how a Sensor Systems catapult could be most successful and beneficial to its participant experts and businesses. Please help us to do this by telling us about the needs and capabilities of your business.

The UK Sensor Systems Landscape

The general trend of increased connectivity of devices and equipment, as well as increasing automation, has led to an increasing need for sensors to understand the state of the physical world.

With the UK sensors expertise centred on excellent academic faculties and over 80% of the industrial base being SMEs, a catalyst to accelerate growth is needed to increase market penetration, technical development and growth.

Sensor Systems Catapult

A Sensor Systems Catapult would be a facility that pulls together experts and businesses from across the Sensor Systems domain allowing collaboration and acceleration of sensor-based solutions. A Sensor Systems Catapult could offer its participants the following kinds of benefits:

·         Advice and mentoring
·         Prototyping
·         Test and Demonstration Environments
·         Development of industry standards
·         Development of applications domain knowledge
·         Cross-domain Collaboration
·         Seminars, Conferences and Consortium Building
·         Manufacture Support

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* 1. Please provide the name of your company/organisation

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* 2. Please provide the postcode of where your company/organisation is based

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* 3. What is the size of your company/organisation?

Start-up (<10 employees)

SME (10 to 250 employees)

Large (>250 employees).

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* 4. Is your company/organisation a supplier or user of sensor systems?

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* 5. Where in the Sensor Systems Value Chain does your business operate?

Sensor devices and detectors

Sensor instruments

Sensor-enabled products

Systems integration

Services and support (to sensors-related businesses)

Services and support (utilising sensors and sensor products)

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* 6. Referring to the technology stack shown below, in which area/s does your business operate?

Sensor Products and Applications

Visualisation & Presentation

Analysis & Post Processing

Data Storage and Management

Communications & Networking

Transductance & Pre-processing

Sensor Elements

Data/Information

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* 7. Please describe in your own words the nature of your business and the role that sensors play in it

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* 8. A Sensor Systems Catapult might offer the following facilities/services:

How useful would these services be to your business?

	Very useful	Somewhat useful	Not useful
Advice and Mentoring	Advice and Mentoring Very useful	Advice and Mentoring Somewhat useful	Advice and Mentoring Not useful
Prototyping	Prototyping Very useful	Prototyping Somewhat useful	Prototyping Not useful
Test and Demonstration Environments	Test and Demonstration Environments Very useful	Test and Demonstration Environments Somewhat useful	Test and Demonstration Environments Not useful
Networking Opportunities	Networking Opportunities Very useful	Networking Opportunities Somewhat useful	Networking Opportunities Not useful
Cross-domain Collaboration	Cross-domain Collaboration Very useful	Cross-domain Collaboration Somewhat useful	Cross-domain Collaboration Not useful
Conferences and Consortium Building	Conferences and Consortium Building Very useful	Conferences and Consortium Building Somewhat useful	Conferences and Consortium Building Not useful
Manufacture Support	Manufacture Support Very useful	Manufacture Support Somewhat useful	Manufacture Support Not useful

Specific Facilities - please specify which facilities would be of benefit to you/your business

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* 9. Which of the services listed above would you rate as being the most useful to your business?

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* 10. Please describe the ways in which a Sensor Systems Catapult, offering these kinds of facilities and services, would benefit your business.

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* 11. If your business were to collaborate as part of a Sensor Systems Catapult: Do you feel that your business could offer any activities or skills as services to others within the Sensor Systems value chain (under suitable commercial arrangements)?

Yes

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* 12. If yes, please describe the facilities, skills or services your business could offer and who you think might benefit from these offerings.

My business could offer:

This would benefit:

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* 13. If No, please describe why you do not feel your business could offer services to others as part of a Sensor Systems Catapult.

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* 14. Is anything blocking the progress of your business in the Sensor Systems domain?

Lack of funding

Lack of necessary skills/training

Lack of test and demonstration facilities

Lack of a strong customer base

Lack of cross-industry collaboration

Insufficient links to expertise or academia/businesses

Other

Please describe further if you would like to:

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* 1. Please provide the name of your company/organisation

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* 2. Please provide the postcode of where your company/organisation is based

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* 3. What is the size of your company/organisation?

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* 4. Is your company/organisation a supplier or user of sensor systems?

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* 5. Where in the Sensor Systems Value Chain does your business operate?

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* 6. Referring to the technology stack shown below, in which area/s does your business operate?

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* 7. Please describe in your own words the nature of your business and the role that sensors play in it

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* 8. A Sensor Systems Catapult might offer the following facilities/services:How useful would these services be to your business?

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* 9. Which of the services listed above would you rate as being the most useful to your business?

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* 10. Please describe the ways in which a Sensor Systems Catapult, offering these kinds of facilities and services, would benefit your business.

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* 11. If your business were to collaborate as part of a Sensor Systems Catapult: Do you feel that your business could offer any activities or skills as services to others within the Sensor Systems value chain (under suitable commercial arrangements)?

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* 12. If yes, please describe the facilities, skills or services your business could offer and who you think might benefit from these offerings.

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* 13. If No, please describe why you do not feel your business could offer services to others as part of a Sensor Systems Catapult.

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* 14. Is anything blocking the progress of your business in the Sensor Systems domain?

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* 15. Is there anything else you would like to say on this topic?

* 8. A Sensor Systems Catapult might offer the following facilities/services:

How useful would these services be to your business?