Coventry University Excellence Award
10th Jul, 2018
Rahat Iqbal
10th Jul, 2018
Rahat Iqbal

Interactive Coventry (IC) was recommended and shortlisted for Coventry University Excellence Award for being one of the fastest growing spin-outs of Coventry University. IC has invested heavily in R&D and managed to increase its research revenue by an astonishing 200%, during a short period of two years, attracting both public and private investors. IC work led to securing funding from prestigious awards such as the Innovate Newton Fund, as well as establishing collaborations with high profile commercial partners and academic institutions, creating new R&D opportunities and supporting CU research.
IC success relies on its patented deep learning approaches that feature human like intelligence and are able to achieve state of the art forecasting and classification accuracy by utilizing diverse historical and real-time data, in very competitive processing times. These approaches are used as the computational backbone for developing products with a significant impact at an institutional, national and global level. IC solutions are used in many modern and challenging application areas such as industrial computer vision, smart cities, advanced automotive and industrial fault diagnostics. The deployment of IC solutions in these areas has delivered many benefits for the public, private companies and government organisations. These benefits include but are not limited to: optimized industrial production, improved smart city management, safer driving and improved urban mobility, and easier access to business information.