News & Blog

Read a selection of our latest news and blog posts for examples of our latest R&D work, updates from our offices and top reasons to use full, or partial-license innovative technology solutions for your business..

Do you require location reporting of assets to <2m both indoors and outdoors on the same network? Demonstration environment now available!

We are pleased to announce that we have now opened our new demonstration facility to showcase our TaCT platform at our offices in Newbury, Berkshire. Operating exclusively at 2.4 GHz using LoRa® signalling and uniquely working across indoor and outdoor environments on the same homogenous network, potential partners will be able to see for themselves, the tracking and reporting of asset tags at 1-2m accuracy, across an area of 10,000 m². This comprehensive development demonstrates our innovative IP applied in a real-world setting. Our business model is to licence the

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Convert Technologies contribute to new Smart Wireless Innovation Facility at Nottingham Trent University

Convert Technologies has been invited to contribute to a Smart Wireless Innovation Facility (SWIFt) – a brand new ‘smart campus’ project at Nottingham Trent University. Convert will be installing their TaCT (Tracking and Communication Technology) platform within NTU’s Institute of Health and Allied Professions, to monitor real-time movements of high value medical equipment, which is currently used within the mock hospital wards and training rooms.  Phase 1 of this indoor asset tracking solution will commence in March 2021, with Phase 2, a more expansive outdoor sports equipment tracking solution, coming

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‘Range-IT’ Addresses Global Healthcare Analytics Market

Hospitals deliver life and time-critical care and interventions utilising medical-standard regulated, high-value equipment and instrumentation across the broad spectrum of clinical care.  Mobile assets (such as patient-monitors, wheelchairs, syringe-drivers) move with patients and are often misplaced, whilst stationary assets e.g. ventilators, are often lost or stolen [1]. In the UK alone, the impact of unavailable assets leading to cancelled operations, increased search-time, over-procurement and poor equipment efficiency, carries a cost of around £2bn per annum, with a 5% impact of delayed surgery hours per annum. Range-IT brings an asset location, tracking

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Convert’s i-PCT (Indoor Pandemic Contact Tracing) technology given thumbs up by Innovate UK.

Using the recent Innovate UK grant award, Convert’s existing TaCT platform, is being further enhanced and developed to include the recording of accurate trace information to identify close contacts at crowded venues, working alongside emerging mobile systems. Essentially TaCT is an enabling technology, using a superior ranging technique, is scalable and is ideally suited to this environment, locating a small tag within a radio network formed by fixed location anchors. The tag position, logged in an online database, is then served to existing contact-tracing services. The Innovate funded i-PCT project

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