Knowledge transfer partnerships
Expertise enables company to create new products
Clients
Campbell Scientific
Expertise
Optical engineering
Campbell Scientific of Shepshed, Leicestershire, which makes meteorological equipment, sensors and data loggers, was looking to create a research and development programme which would lead the way in its field.
The company teamed up with members of the University’s Optical Engineering Research Group, who were conducting world-class research into optoelectronics.
Under a Knowledge Transfer Partnership, Campbell developed a Present Weather Sensor designed to measure and classify rain and visibility.
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Impact
- Delivery of a weather sensor which has since been sold globally to a range of markets
- Development of a strong, ongoing collaboration between the university and the company including further KTP projects resulting in the Ceilometer - a cloud base recorder to measure the height of cloud layers - and the Cloud Classifier System, which exploits the latest developments in infrared technology and image processing