Plymouth Innovate Startup Competition

Project:

Higher Vision is a gym-wide camera system to help track and analyse climbing performances. 

Tracking and analysing climbing is a challenging field. Wearables and fitness trackers fail to have the ground truth information to properly track the difficulty of the climb or similar metrics, and manually recording statistics such as number of attempts, number of climbs etc. can be lengthy and time-consuming - especially in bouldering where potentially hundreds of routes may be climbed in a session. 

By Implementing a gym-wide camera array and using modern computer vision techniques, this data can be tracked and recorded accurately and without human input. By recording this data, climbers can view and better track their sessions and their performance, and better-targeted coaching and training can be achieved with minimal human input, allowing for performance improvements. Additionally, climbing gyms can use these metrics to better understand their clientele, including their performance, ability, likes and dislikes, areas of the wall and climbing styles they prefer and so on.

Project:

Shrumspore is a research-backed skincare brand that aims to address the dermatological concerns that many women face, particularly in the academic workplace. 

Some 70% of UK women do not feel confident going to work without makeup on, while UK cosmetic revenues continue to skyrocket. This is expected to increase by another 20% in the next three years, yet women are still not feeling confident in their skin because the cosmetic industry does not address the precise details that ensure effective skin nutrient delivery to the right skin layers, executing skin health maintenance and balance.

Unlike current cosmetic brands, Shrumspore is run by women in STEM that utilise hundreds of high-impact research papers to create skin conscious formulas. Formulas that bring coherency between skin and ingredients based on essential skin delivery factors. Factors such as the molecular size, absorption time, solubility, pH and concentration of key skin ingredients.

Despite the top-quality ingredients and research-confirmed formulas, the Shrumspore team are proud that its products are affordable and accessible to the 70% of academic women that want to restore their confidence again.

Project:

The team created an app for interpreting spoken English into British Sign Language and vice versa, for simple and natural communication between hearing and deaf people. 

The app will provide a link for deaf people to better interact with society by providing a personal interpreter that is always available in their pockets whenever needed. The application of this can be used for phone calls, TV watching, and regular conversations - any situation that requires verbal communication. Using this app instead of text to speech/speech to text allows both parties to communicate in the way that is most natural to them - speech for the hearing and signs for the deaf.