Digital Economy
The digital economy is helping individuals, businesses, and society as a whole to benefit from information and communications technologies in new ways. NPL is active in a wide range of activities including fundamental research, measurement validation, primary instrumentation builds, modelling, training and product development.
How Can NPL Help?
- Timing and location systems – NPL is carrying out world-class research for the development of a new generation of optical frequency standards. Optical frequency standards have many potential applications, ranging from improved satellite navigation systems to sensitive tests of fundamental physical theories.
- Climate change model validation – NPL’s expertise in the area of quality assurance and quality control of data can be used to validate complex models to ensure their continued accuracy and reliability. NPL is working with both industry and government to help improve the traceability of measurements made for the understanding of climate change through providing calibration, characterisation and advice for sub-systems and components for satellite instruments, “end to end” pre-launch calibration through to the calibration of instrumentation used for vicarious calibration.
- New materials development – NPL’s expertise in the area of functional and multifunctional materials can help companies review new materials for fit-for-purpose application along with assessing their performance under different environmental conditions.
As Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) become an increasingly critical part of everyday life and infrastructure, NPL is working with companies engaged in sectors from space and communications to security and healthcare to help increase the understanding and reduce the uncertainty with their products and systems where ICT are key.
With NPL’s expertise in measurement science and inter-disciplined approach to research, we are working to reduce the uncertainty in earth observation data for climate change models, increasing the robustness of wireless networks along with developing new quantum based technologies for faster computing and security based applications.
NPL is working with businesses developing products and systems for use in the digital economy to help drive forward their product innovation that will ensure that the UK can remain global leaders in all areas that rely ICT.
Challenge Driven, Solution Focused
NPL is a world leading National Measurement Institute for the physical sciences committed to using the science of measurement to help drive innovation, support industry and improve the quality of life.
NPL is working with companies working in the Digital Economy sector by developing solutions driven by your challenges through the application of cutting edge measurement that meets our customer’s needs.
Our capability includes:
Validation & quality of data
Timing and location systems
Standards development
Instrumentation – validation and optimisation
Training and skills development
Working with business and industry, NPL’s Research and Development programmes focus on identifying and addressing customer needs, ensuring our expertise and knowledge is always relevant and easily applied by our partners.