Three innovative high-tech companies have been named winners in the third round of Canary Wharf Group’s Cognicity Challenge.
Sir George Iacobescu, Cognicity Challenge Cohort 3 Showcase Event, Level 39, Canary Wharf, London.
In the “Connected Home” category, BlockDox and Puckily took joint first place and will share the £50,000 cash prize. 3D Repro — which is developing an open source Building Information Modeling (BIM) platform to allow better collaboration on construction projects — is the winner in the ‘Virtual Design and Construction’ section.
Both BlockDox and Pluckily will now collaborate on their pilot projects. By combining their technologies, the two companies will vastly improve people’s ability to manage their offices and homes through connected devices.
Puckily’s innovation allows a range of devices around the home to be connected and controlled remotely, while BlockDox has developed an application to enable residents to perform everyday tasks, such as organising repair work and contacting management, more quickly and easily.
The trio will now join the winners of the previous rounds — Polysolar, Voyage Control, SEaB Energy and Demand Logic — and eight other innovators invited by the Canary Wharf Group (CWG) to develop their projects on the Canary Wharf estate.
Cognicity is a smart city accelerator programme sponsored by CWG supporting the development of ground-breaking technologies and drawing on the expertise of the group’s executives and industry leaders including chip maker, Intel, and consulting engineers ARUP. “Through Cognicity we are demonstrating the potential of smart buildings, sensor networks and digital analysis software, to create efficiencies and convenience in the development and management of our cities,” explained a group statement.
Sir George Iacobescu, Chairman and Chief Executive of CWG, added: “We chose to run the Cognicity Challenge to identify companies and technologies which will help ensure that Canary Wharf Group’s developments remain among some of the most advanced in the world.
“Collaborating with 36 startups has provided the opportunity to appraise our own processes and understanding of innovation in the smart cities arena, at the same time as helping shape their thinking and products. We are looking forward to the piloting phase and its outcomes.”
Claire Cockerton, Cognicity Challenge Cohort 3 Showcase Event, Level 39, Canary Wharf, London.
Claire Cockerton is chief executive and chairwoman of ENTIQ which oversees the challenge for CWG. “This is just the beginning of an incredible journey for 3D Repo, Puckily and BlockDox,” she said.
“Their solutions will drastically improve the way we plan construction projects and interact with our homes and a procurement model like Cognicity is one of the best ways of ensuring lasting, authentic innovation which has the power to transform the urban environment as we know it.”
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