News from Silicon Fen: Marshall partners with Plasan for armour; PneumaCare trials mobile lung scan; ipaccess boosts wireless
Marshall Land Systems and Plasan announced the formation of a joint venture to design, manufacture and market armoured solutions to the UK land, naval and where appropriate air domains.
The 50:50 JV will be based in the UK with both companies having an equal number of board members. It will be a free standing company reporting to the boards of both Marshall Land Systems and Plasan. The JV will be MLS's main centre for armouring capitalising on Plasan's leading capability in armour.
"This JV is a major step in the development of Marshall Land Systems' offering to the defence and security community and enables us to provide an even more integrated solution to our customers, with Plasan, a world leader in survivability and armour solutions" said Peter Callaghan, CEO of Marshall Land Systems.
The JV will be working to provide a credible alternative supply of armour to the end user, vehicle prime contractors and OEMs.
Marshall Land Systems is part Marshall Group, a £750m family owned group of companies involved in the automotive, aerospace and land systems areas, headquartered in Cambridge.
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PneumaCare Ltd, working with the UK Ministry of Defence, has successfully trialled a mobile version of PneumaWatch, its next generation light scanning medical monitoring device.
It is a mobile version of PneumaCare's novel non-invasive lung function monitor developed for hospitals and doctors offices.
The technology has been developed in partnership with the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering and Plextek Ltd with initial funding from Cambridge Enterprise's Discovery Fund.
CEO Gareth Roberts said: "This collaboration between an SME, a university, and a defence contractor is exploiting the strengths of each in a collaborative endeavour model which allows us to deliver innovation effectively, efficiently and quickly'.
PneumaCare's trial demonstrated the potential for PneumaWatch in monitoring combat and blast injury casualties during evacuation by ambulances and aircraft by maintaining lung function.
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ip.access, developer of 2G and 3G in-building wireless solutions, said that it has enhanced the capabilities of the nanoGSM product range with a new system release 4.1 that supports plug and play customer self installation and a range of other features which extend the performance and capabilities of the system.
By enabling enterprise customers to directly install the nanoGSM BTS on their own premises, mobile operators can save up to half the total cost of a picocell deployment, the company said. This in turn expands the range of sites and businesses where nanoGSM can be deployed economically.
