Innovation Race 2022: How can you join in?

We are looking for eight teams of up-to 8 people to join us for our IoT Innovation Programme, The Innovation Race for the month of March 2022. 


We will be delivering digital content from some of the leading names in IoT and LoRaWAN to accelerate your understanding of the IoT landscape and how to develop your new idea, product or service utilising this new technology solution. 

We want to see innovative solutions for the following sectors: 

  • Care - Delivering targeted individual care, minimising loneliness, improving mental health issues

  • Energy - Utility usage, electricity metering, decreasing consumption, reducing bills, increasing customer control and management

  • Critical Infrastructure – waste management, recycling, water usage monitoring

  • Highways – street lighting, smart parking and better experience, road monitoring, building monitoring

  • Wellbeing – connected alarms, fall and accident detection, home security, medicine tracking, activity monitoring, public safety

  • Public Space – people flow, public safety, urban noise maps, air quality monitoring

  • Mobility – public transport monitoring, people flow, traffic monitoring

  • AgriTech - Nutrient Systems, Crop monitoring, Resource Management, Safety, Soil Monitoring, Disease Prevention, Sustainability monitoring

Ideally, your teams will include:

  • Project Leaders

  • Graphic/Design or Communication Leader

  • Computer Science or Digital Graphics Roles

  • Communication Role

  • Public Health/Researcher Role

  • Students

  • Industry Leaders

  • Anyone with a good idea

This event is open to everybody, whether you are based in Suffolk or Norfolk or not. Perhaps you are interested in watching the digital programme on YouTube and finding out more about the Norfolk and Suffolk Innovation Network, creating a team, or cheering our teams on and following their progress - all of you are very welcome to participate and join in as much or as little as you like. Part of our delivery aims are to ensure as many people in Norfolk and Suffolk are aware of this technology, how it’s already being used to solve complex problems whilst saving money and how it can benefit you.

There is no criteria you need to fulfil for creating a team, we are not expecting a full working solution by the end of the innovation race but we aren’t stopping anyone from developing a solution as far as they possibly can. However, we are looking for teams to submit a video pitch that explains how their solution works, their products route to market and market sector analysis, cost of development and how their solution solves a real world problem and have created at least a paper prototype.

We will be delivering a core-programme of 13 Digital Streams, each with a Live Q&A session at the end and we welcome anyone who wants to participate, to participate and the best bit - it’s completely free and the winners will walk away with a prize of £5,000 at our final event at the end of March, so get your teams signed up now as places are limited!

Measured Brilliance