 Marcus Taylor I'm here at the ID Tech X show in Berlin and we've had a really good show and we've been demonstrating our energy harvesting and RFID products for use in rubber, elastomers and polymers and these are some examples of the work that we've been doing. Here you can see a supercapacitor that is very flexible and also able to withstand very high temperatures which is necessary for time manufacture and production. So what's with this before? So this basically works with this so if we look at this when I shake that I'm not left standing. Which generating power? So the idea is that this will generate power that is then stored in the supercapacitor that then is used to power this. So this structure here will be implemented on this area here and then this will charge a supercapacitor which is then being managed to provide power to the TPMS sensor and this is a low frequency and this is the antenna for the 434 frequency range. So you're powering an IoT device? This is an IoT and it's the Internet of Tires that we're talking about. Tires. So every tire is going to be able to communicate by itself? Every time we'll be able to communicate by itself to other tires as well in time. What are they going to be saying to each other? They're going to be saying I'm too hot, my pressure is too low, I'm on the left, you're on the right, are we going forwards, are we going backwards? I'm going fast, I'm slipping, what should we tell the engine management unit? We're on an autonomous vehicle now, oh my tread depth is too low, we need to go for a new tire. How can they measure all this? Do you have everything in there? No, this is still the basic product which has only got TPMS. And TPMS means? TPMS is Tire Pressure Monitoring System. So in 2012, 2014 there was legislation that was introduced to force passenger vehicle owners to monitor their tires because about 20% of all accidents on the road are caused by under inflated tires and of course under inflated tires also translate to increased fuel consumption and increased tire wear. But the main driver is safety, tires first and foremost are safety products. And is supercapacitor is a big deal? It's a big deal because supercapacitors on capacitors in general don't like high temperatures, typically supercapacitors will stop to work at about 80 degrees. So what's amazing about this material is it keeps working with almost no change in efficiency up to around 200 Celsius, maybe more. If we go over here, tires get that hot? And manufactured tires during the vulcanization process go up to about 160 Celsius, 170 Celsius for about half an hour. So any of the components that we use have to be automotive grade. And how about while they drive? They also get pretty hot? So then, well the temperature range then is from Siberia to the Sahara if you like. So minus 50 maybe, up to 100, 110 and... They don't get really hot when they hit the road. So there's two factors that cause the tire to heat up. One is the mechanical forces. So it's a visco-elastic material. So the molecules rubbing together will generate heat. And then of course there's heat absorption from the atmosphere. So hot road, if you've ever put your hand on the road. So here what we have is this is a piezoelectric energy harvester that is vibrating. I think it's vibrating at about 25-30 hertz. This is generating 2.3 volts. And then it's charging the... Sorry. You need the useful volts and the mutation of the useful volts right now. So this is without a load and now when we put a load the voltage drops. And this is a mutation of the useful volts just before the heat. So it's showing how this is generating enough power now to light an LED. So is this a new partnership with the... Combery. So Combery are based in Ulyanovsk in Russia and with their PVD technology have developed the supercapacitor for us. Is that the one? This is the one, yeah. So what is the capacity or the lifetime and stuff like that? So it should have a very long life but we're not quite there yet. So we're still in prototyping stage. But the capacity is sufficient to drive a circuit. So this circuit here needs about one milliwatt. So we've dimensioned everything to operate those sort of power requirements. This is a combination of flexible electronics and... So this is a combination of flexible electronics, PVD, substrate materials. The substrates we've developed here are specially formulated to be compatible with the rubber in the tire. And so these inks and the pastes that we've also developed are designed to stick to these substrates. This is a natural rubber. This is an ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene. So a lot of it is really about how do we make products that fit rubber, polymers and elastomers because it's a very challenging manufacturing process with vulcanization, with injection molding, over molding, thermoplastics. So by creating materials that fit those substrates and those manufacturing processes, we're actually creating Internet of Things for flexible materials. So there's a whole bunch of new materials around here. A whole bunch of new materials. So for example, what are the materials in here? This is for demonstration purposes, but this is silicone basically. And it just shows how much we can flex this around in order to create, if you like, a fully compatible structure. So imagine that's the tire and it's being flexed. It actually won't be flexing that much in a tire. It'd be much, much less than that. And around here you're showing different colors or different functions? These are actually kind of spin-offs. These are not core to what we're doing, but these are electrochromic materials. And what's cool here is that we've got electrochromic materials that are just blue, which is the sort of standard color, but we can do different grays and browns as well. And you're ultra low power? Yeah. So ultra low power is kind of frames what we're doing. Everything we're doing is ultra low power, and we've formed a number of partnerships that is giving us traction in these different industry sectors. So we're developing sensor systems for dairy products, for milking systems, which kind of fit together here for the chemical. Then for transport aviation, we're developing the sensors that we've just spoken about. Then for marine and packaging, the same thing can be repurposed for tracking containers and ULDs and packages. But you're going to go in space? Why not? I mean, what's to stop us? What would be the partner there? Like SpaceX? SpaceX or your ESA? The ESA. I mean, there's a number of companies that potentially we could go for. But we're still a small start-up company, so we're waiting for them to knock on our door at this time. What does the silent sensors mean? You don't want to make any noise? It's kind of that. I mean, have you ever heard a sensor making any sound? But I think it's the silent background of all this information and all this data that is being generated. And one of the things that we've been successful, I believe, because we mitigate the risk by working with world-class partners such as Artis and CPI and PCL and Tyndall. And we're also very, very fortunate to have been awarded an instrument from Horizon 2020 through the European Commission as well as Innovate UK through the UK. So we see Europe as being very, very key to the growth of our business. So those are all kinds of partners? These are all kinds of partners. So these are industry associations that we work with. So you've got Smith as a rapper that are experts in the polymer and elastomer market. You've got RAIN, RFID, which is the industry sector for RAIN. You've got SMMT, Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders that represent the industry in the UK. You've got ALICE, which is a EU consortium of logistics companies. So there's an MIA, for example, they're all about motorsport, which kind of fits as well with the aviation and space technology because Formula One kind of creates a lot of these cool things. So the next thing for our company really is scale-up. At this stage we want to scale up, we want to get our product into the market, we want to be in attire by the end of the year, generating data and transmitting that to the cloud. One of our end goals is to also move the intelligence into the tire to create what I'd like to call sentient products by using, applying AI at the edge of the cloud rather than concentrating everything up in the cloud. So those algorithms and those business opportunities are enabled. So this has a transformative effect on businesses. Does it have a little microcontroller? This has a little microcontroller, it has a sensor, and I think the whole point of this is it's a business transformation technology. It enables companies to go from product sales to as-a-service business models. Battery. That's the supercapacitor. That's the comery. No, no. This is actually off the shelf. I think that's a Morata standard. All the components on here you can buy from Mauser or DigiKey or whoever. So each of these components here is a gap in the end solution and each of these components now has to be substituted with a, should we call it tire-compatible component. So where are you based and how many people in the company? So we're 10 people, we're based in the UK and we have two offices. One in Sedgefield in the northeast of England and one in Swindon, which is just southwest of London. And we also have a small office in France in Nantes. And we have partners throughout Europe and elsewhere in the world. Of course, we have a partnership with Ulyanovsk with Combury as well. And how about Ivy Tech X, what do you think about the show? I think it's brilliant. I mean, if it wasn't for Ivy Tech X, we were here for the first time last year, 2017. And it was a chance encounter with Combury that led to this partnership that we have today at the stand here in Berlin. So I think that for us, Ivy Tech X has helped us grow quickly and find partnerships that we otherwise wouldn't have found.