IoT projects in Scotland

In the village of Gartness near Drymen - a popular stopping point at the beginning of the West Highland Way - IoT infrastructure has been deployed to support tourism and development in the local community - including being able to see how many people were on a nearby section of the popular hiking route.

In Hamilton, CENSIS helped Scottish SME Utopi to design a unique multi-sensor IoT device aimed at the build-to-rent and student accommodation sectors. The system provides a full ‘service history’ of a property’s assets, making them more valuable to investors and asset managers, as well as boosting sustainability.

Following some support from CENSIS, Dundee-based M2M Cloud's IoT water-monitoring IoT technology 'Nepture' is deployed across more than 100 buildings owned by The Highland Council, enabling the local authority to remotely gather data about its water systems.

With support from CENSIS, proptech specialists Beringar teamed up with the NHS to use IoT to monitor and track the whereabouts of its medical beds as part of an initiative to automate bed maintenance, a traditionally manual process for much of the UK’s healthcare estate.

A series of IoT testbeds have been deployed across hospitals and healthcare facilities in the Highlands and Islands as part of a bid to explore how NHS Highland can drive efficiency and enhance user and staff experience in non-clinical applications.

The 'Neighbourhoods for Independent Living' project is using IoT to create three communities of the future in the south side of Glasgow, Dundee and Buckie in Moray, designed to help older people live longer, healthier, independent lives.

Three blocks of flats in Glasgow’s Maryhill became some of the most technologically-advanced in Scotland following a collaborative project undertaken by partners including the Scottish Government, CENSIS and iOpt Assets.

A team of Scottish researchers is used sensor and IoT systems to minimise the risk of dentists and patients being exposed to contaminated air, improving the safety of aerosol generating procedures that have been linked to the airborne transmission of infections such as Covid-19

East Renfrewshire Council used IoT to deploy a ‘smart gritting’ system at five locations in Barrhead to help decide when and where to deploy road gritters within the local authority, thereby reducing vehicle emissions and further improving safety for road users.

A programme exploring the cyber vulnerabilities of IoT devices is being delivered with the support of CENSIS and ethical hacking students of Abertay University. Part of CENSIS’s year long IoT cyber challenge programme, students will attack a piece of bespoke IoT hardware containing built-in security flaws.

A consortium of organisations is using IoT to help establish south-west Scotland and Cumbria as the leading region for advanced, sustainable and high-value dairy processing. It will enable the tracing of milk, cheese and other products and provide assurance to retailers, wholesalers and consumers.

CENSIS, SEPA and the University of Glasgow's School of Mathematics and Statistics are working together to design and deploy an IoT system to support sustainability in Scottish water resources. A test bed at the Elliot Water catchment near Arbroath hosts network of sensors that could provide information on water to farmers and industry, removing any issues of uncertainty around water availability.