Audio Analytic’s advances in the future of sound have been recognised at this week’s Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Innovation Awards. The team picked up the award in the Consumer Electronics Technology category.
This is designed for both consumers and businesses to help them react as soon as incidents happen. Audio Analytic’s technology means that sounds such as smoke alarms, baby cries and breaking glass are recognised straightaway and alerts are sent to a device wherever you are in the world. In this way, the latest offering from Audio Analytic will prove beneficial to society for improved public safety, and increasingly, the wellbeing of vulnerable adults.
The Audio Analytic team scooped the award beating four other shortlisted entries, selected from over 400 entries from 22 countries.
William Webb, IET president said: “The IET Innovation Awards celebrate the best in global innovation, highlighting the rapid and exciting pace of development in today’s engineering and technology industry. Congratulations to the Audio Analytics team for their win. They were selected from a set of global innovations as one of the most forward thinking companies in the field.
“These awards are part of the IET’s mission to inspire engineering excellence, which last year provided over £500,000 to celebrate excellence and research in the sector and inspire the next generation of engineers and technicians. Our awards recognise and reward the industry’s elite, from apprentices and technicians at the start of their careers through to senior established professionals.”
Chris Mitchell, CEO of Audio Analytic said: “We are really pleased to have won this award – it’s great to receive such recognition from an institution as renowned and established as the IET. We identified a number of challenges facing the future of sound and have overcome them with cutting edge technology. Hopefully this award will mean that we can continue to invest in further innovations that will help meet consumers’ demands for years to come.”
The award was previously won by Toumaz Technology and their chairman and co-founder, professor Chris Toumazou, has gone on to become this year’s recipient of the IET Faraday Medal – the highest accolade presented by the IET.
