Cambridge Consultants, a world-leading technology product development firm, celebrates 50 years of innovation in 2010.
Described as "those experts of disruptive technologies" by the Financial Times, Cambridge Consultants has played a key role in the emergence of wireless healthcare through its creation of the Bluetooth technology and its medical applications.
Established in 1960 by three Cambridge University graduates, the company now employs over 300 engineers, technologists and scientists - including one of the world's largest independent wireless development teams - at offices in Cambridge, UK and Boston, USA.
Dr Brian Moon, CEO of Cambridge Consultants, commented that the company "aimed initially to provide British industry with ready access to a new breed of highly qualified, forward-thinking, recently graduated technologists." Now a global business, Cambridge Consultants received the 2009 Queen's Award for International Trade.
Among the company's innovations is the Vena platform, launched in March 2008: a $10 Bluetooth chip that allows medical devices such as blood pressure monitors to transmit data wirelessly. Vena has been adopted by the Continua Health Alliance as a global platform for a network of interoperable wireless healthcare devices.
"What we now do is help our clients achieve competitive advantage very quickly through the application of novel technology, or indeed, the novel application of existing technology," said Dr Moon. "Today, this work is helping many of our clients gain market share as the economy recovers from the effects of the global recession. Whatever market our clients are in, from medical diagnostics to satellite communications, this work requires our teams to look ahead.
"As we seek technological solutions to some of the world's most pressing and urgent needs, the watchwords will be efficiency, simplicity and renewability."
Vena platform