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Wideblue start new wind turbine blade optical monitoring project

Wideblue are the lead partner in a new Innovate UK project which will develop a camera system to monitor the health of wind turbine blades. The cameras will measure the shape of the wind turbine blades in real time under load in normal and in extreme operating conditions. Wideblue are joined by a team from the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult to help develop the camera system, the exposure method, the environmental protection of the equipment and analysis of the data.

01 Sep 2016
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Wideblue wins new Hyperspectral Crop Camera Project

Wideblue are the lead partner in a new Innovate UK project to develop a low cost hyperspectral imaging camera for use by farmers. This ambitious project brings together experts from University of Strathclyde, University of the West of Scotland, James Hutton Institute, Galloway & MacLeod and Wideblue to develop a new low cost Crop Camera. The new product is aimed at providing valuable information to a wide range of farmers about the health of their crop allowing them to make important decisions about irrigation, pests, diseases, inputs and harvest. Currently the use of Hyperspectral Imaging in agriculture is limited to high cost airborne and satellite applications.

01 Jul 2016
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Wideblue client The Impossible Company launches the Wideblue engineered I-1 camera

Wideblue client The Impossible Company have recently launched the Wideblue engineered I-1 camera, the first new camera system in over twenty years for the original Polaroid 600 photo format. The camera was recently launched at the Bloomberg design week in San Francisco and was also featured during NYCxDesign in May at an exclusive launch at MOMA the Museum of Modern Art in new York. The camera is the first in a line of new instant film cameras for the digital age that are currently being developed with Impossible.

11 Apr 2016
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Wideblue director Grant King to speak at Bio Dundee Conference

Wideblue director Grant King to speak at Bio Dundee Conference, 24-25th May. As part of a focus on Design, Grant will be speaking to an audience from the Life Sciences community on “Product Design – the idea and the execution; how it all comes together”. In light of Dundee being a UNESCO City of Design and as 2016 is the year of Innovation, Architecture and Design, the 2016 Bio Dundee Conference will focus on the importance of Design in business and product development.

16 Mar 2016
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Wideblue demonstrate new capnometer products to Princess Anne

Wideblue are currently working with University of West of Scotland (UWS) Sports Medicine Department, GSS and CENSIS, to evaluate the use of their new Capnometer products in sports medicine. Wideblue and GSS were invited along to the opening of a new building at UWS and got the chance to demonstrate the new products to Princess Anne.

29 Feb 2016
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