FOUR LAMPS

Its time to get started with the Internet of Things.

The internet of things. M2M. The industrial internet. Quietly, an upswell of technology is revolutionising products and services. 75% of businesses, across 19 major sectors, are already using connected devices of some form or another. Last year, over 3 billion industrial sensors were shipped to global markets, most of which are now the nerve endings of industrial networks.

The market is tipping. What does it mean for your business?

For many it means stretched resources. Projects that start with excitement and end in frustration and a bit of guilt. Although the IoT offers unparalleled opportunities for innovation and new business, getting the right people to find and develop these opportunities is tough. The technology available is moving forward on many fronts. More than that, a rich context of judgement and knowhow is needed to choose promising concepts for each industry.

Four Lamps can help. With over 15 years of experience in making new products in IoT, including sensor development, wireless systems, networks and energy management, the Four Lamps team know how to make innovation happen with your technical team.

What we do

We help teams get past the skills bottleneck and maintain momentum with their innovation projects. Using a combination of practical engineering advice, application know how and facilitation/coaching skills, we can help in a number of ways: Preparing innovation projects. Helping build the case, identifying requirements, exploring the technical landscape and avoiding reinventing existing solutions Driving innovation choices. With small or large groups, identifying easy wins for innovation, managing brainstorms, leading concept creation. Ranking concepts for development and exploration. Concept to development. Identifying risk areas and designing a process to ensure these are robustly and rapidly tested and quantified. Improving team's skills. Identifying the priority areas for development, transferring knowledge of processes and knowhow into the team.

Technology

We have recent experience of development using the following:

• MATLAB, SciPy, COMSOL
• Mentor Graphics PADS, PSpice and VHDL
• ARM, MSP430, PIC and OMAP
• Raspberry PI, Arduino and Gumstix
• PTC Creo, Solidworks, Sketchup and Blender
• Labview
• Javascript, Python, C and Java
• Django, d3 and Tapestry
• Eclipse, Xcode and MPLab

We have developed:

• Solid state water meters
• Automotive sensors
• Energy harvesters
• Smart electricity meters
• Distributed virtual power stations
• Solid state gas meters
• RFID systems
• CRM and resource planning websites
• Consumer energy monitors
• Running shoes
• ...

Markets

We draw our experience from:

• Utility infrastructure
• Smart meter
• Automotive component
• Water metering
• FMCG

Our team

Edward Colby, PhD, CEng, FIET

Ed is Four Lamps' Managing Director. He has worked as a technical advisor to international clients for 20years and has led the development of technologies and products that have been transformative in their industries. His work has built valuable businesses and has received prestigious awards. View Ed's profile

Hermione Crease

Hermione is Four Lamps' technical marketing guru. As a marketeer she has worked with technology companies for more than fifteen years, and has set up and managed the marketing functions for many. She specialises in digital marketing, social media, conferences and events, marketing reseach and analysis and PR. View Hermione's profile

Contact us

Four Lamps Limited
7 Magrath Avenue
Cambridge
CB4 3AH

m: +44 7779 139068
e: enquiries@fourlamps.co.uk

regstered in the United Kingdom, company number: 08828407