Twelve New Companies selected for the Cognicity Challenge Smart City Accelerator

Twelve companies have been selected as finalists for the third cohort of the Cognicity Challenge, competing in the Connected Home and Virtual Design & Construction streams of Canary Wharf Group’s smart city accelerator challenge.

The finalists will benefit from a twelve-week programme located within ‘High Growth Space:24’, the expansion space of Level39’s tech company incubator, in Canary Wharf’s iconic One Canada Square.

During the twelve-week programme, each of the finalist companies will gain access to world-leading specialists including an expert group of Canary Wharf executives, benefit from an intensive accelerator curriculum, and make invaluable contacts both within Canary Wharf Group and other major industry players, including Intel and Innovate UK, in order to fast-track the development and deployment of their smart city innovations.

At the end of the accelerator programme the finalists will deliver a business plan and pitch to Canary Wharf Group executives and expert judges, with the winners of each stream receiving £50,000 and the chance to pilot their technologies on the estate.

The finalists selected for the Connected Home accelerator stream are:

• Block Dox: a system that puts a wealth of services at residential tenants’ fingertips. From their app residents can perform everyday tasks, like contacting reception and arranging repairs.
• Canary Control: a cloud-based heating control system that combines multiple sources of data to manage internal temperatures intelligently.
• Current Table: a company that combines form and function by integrating solar panel technology into a really smart piece of furniture.
• Domcontrols: a platform that allows the user to monitor and control devices remotely by connecting separate electronic devices throughout the home.
• Heat Genius: a system that controls temperatures through zoning technology. The system learns occupancy patterns and adjusts temperatures accordingly.
• Puckily: an innovative system allows users to control Internet of Things devices around the home from a single interface.

The finalists for the Virtual Design & Construction accelerator stream are:

• 3D Repo: technology that connects various stakeholders in construction projects by providing an open-source collaborative platform.
• BaseStone: a system that allows workers to remotely share data from a construction site in real time.
• CyberCity 3D, Inc.: a geospatial-modeling innovator that specialises in the production of smart 3D building models.
• iBISM: technology that integrates different communication protocols in the BMS sector to create a more connected planning process.
• Intelle Innovations: a platform that produces real-time, editable virtual environments, which can be displayed on a variety of devices to support and inform the planning process.
• Simudyne: a virtual decision-making platform for developers that can act as a sandbox during the planning process.

The Cognicity Challenge was launched on 21 October 2014 and comprises six accelerator streams. The winners of the first two streams were announced on 16 April 2015, when the solar energy company Polysolar and the smart logistics company Voyage Control won £50,000 each and the opportunity to pilot their technologies at Canary Wharf.

To find out more, please visit http://www.cognicity.london/