Current IRC projects

We are actively involved in a series of collaborative research projects with leading organisations and bodies. Current research projects include:

Research Council projects

• IBP - Intelligent Buildings for Personalization. EPSRC GR/T04878/01. This project is part of the Innovation in Design, Construction and Operation of Building for People (IDCOP) programme, collaborating with Greenwich University, Southampton University and various companies and associations including Arup Group Ltd. The phrase 'intelligent building' refers to a building that continuously responds and adapts to changing conditions, allowing more efficient use of resources and increasing the comfort and security of its occupants. This work takes an agent-based approach to giving the users of the building direct representation in the intelligent operation of the building. The system aims to resolve conflict between the goals of the people (in optimizing their work and living conditions) and the building (in reducing energy consumption), and between goals of individuals in a group of people in the same location. Professor Kecheng Liu and Darren Booy. (EPSRC IDCOP project description)
• REASON - Robust Methods for Monitoring & Understanding People in Public Spaces, EPSRC Project EP/C533402/1, collaborating with UCL and Kingston University, and including CRS Ltd, the Police Scientific Development Branch, PITO and Thales Ltd. Dr Andrew Adams (and Dr James Ferryman). Visit the EPSRC project description.

• Collaborative Knowledge Management for the Support of Through Life Building Processes - Project Description

DTI projects

CMIPS - Coordinated Management of Intelligent Pervasive Space, DTI Project CHB/003/00044C collaborating with Thales PLC and Arup Group Ltd. Nov 2005 - Jan 2008. Prof. Chris Guy Prof. Kecheng Liu and Dr. Bing Qiao.

Industrial collaborations

FFR - Futures Forum Research Group. The FFR group is a partnership between clients of Capgemini, enterprise architects and delivery solutions specialists from within Capgemini, and researchers at the University of Reading. Its work is co-ordinated by a management team representing Capgemini and the IRC.

KTP (Knowledge Transfer Partnerships)

• Design and develop a complete Business Intelligence system for Airinmar to automatically manage the key business processes. (Airinmar - 30 months).
• To enhance the system and network security for the Airinmar B2B system (Airinmar - 28 months).