Secured by Design (SBD) member company uWatch Ltd, have secured funding from AgRIA (Agri-Tech Research Innovation Accelerator) to develop their product. It’s a battery powered IoT hub called “The Cube”. From uWatch Ltd, based in Cholsey, South Oxfordshire, the product gained SBD accreditation in 2018, having achieved Police Preferred Specification.
The funding, supported by the European Union Development Fund and led by Rothamsted Research, will see uWatch working with the electronics department at University College London for six months with the aim of increasing The Cube’s remote sensor range from 20 metres, doubling the battery life and enabling it to interface with intelligent sensors that will be able to detect polluting gases, sample water quality and detect gates being opened to a farm when they shouldn’t be.
The deployable device operates without the need for Wi-Fi or mains power, and will alert your smartphone in under 30 seconds if there are any intruders.
Louis Bennett, Product manager at uWatch Ltd said: “The Cube is unique. It has a range of sensors including PIR, GPS, Shock, Temperature, Bluetooth and a Day/Night Camera. We can get 400 alerts from one set of AA batteries and it works anywhere using its in-built roaming SIM. Rural crime is one of many applications for what is a sensor rich computer that fits in your hand, which can be redeployed to different locations and reconfigured in seconds, straight from your smart phone. The rural community can use The Cube to combat rural crime together and share information to protect themselves.”
uWatch operate in numerous markets: pest control, home monitoring, and numerous reals of security such as rural crime, shipping containers, vans, caravans, and boats.
SBD Development Officer Doug Skins said: “The uWatch Cube is instantly deployable security that can be used in a wide range of settings – agricultural, vans, sheds, caravans and boats to name a few. I am delighted that this funding will enable uWatch to develop The Cube’s functionality even further, this can only be good news to those involved in tackling crime.”
