Digital Pariah

Magellium

I spoke with two people, a guy whos name I didn't catch and Deidre Kelly, a GIS developer. Deidre showed me some demos of their systems:

• empty office space at Harwell
• cluster view of venturefest clusters in Oxfordshire
• annotations

One of the big things they do is geographic information for agriculture, looking for misclaimed subsidies and crop blights, they have sensors that can pick up microclimates in fields and/or on tractors. They are a small wing of a large French company, based in offices at Harwell. They were interested in some of my location systems, and it feels like there could be some opportunity to work together, but I don't know what that looks like - I have Deidres card and intend to mail her.

Robot Car

I spoke with one of the representatives of Robot Car, who explained that their sensor kit costs around 1000, with the aim of bringing that down to around 100. It can be applied to any car, and is approved for street testing but awaiting regulation for commercialisation.