The Centre

The Pervasive ICT Research Centre was established in April 2004 to explore the business opportunities arising from the dramatic growth in intelligent digital communicating devices. These devices in turn will support a multiplicity of new wave services.

Our Vision

Radical innovation is needed for BT to meet the challenge of delivering new wave ICT services now and in the future. The availability of small, cheap, wireless computing devices is making pervasive computing a reality. People will be surrounded by processing power. New technologies are required to make this power accessible, useful, unobtrusive and responsive to people's needs.

Our aim is to create lightweight technologies and architectures that help to reduce the complexity and cost of ICT systems for BT and its customers. We will also create collaboration and co-ordination tools to enable service delivery across diverse information resources.

Our Value

The Centre brings together world class expertise spanning many disciplines and application areas such as healthcare, environmental monitoring, telematics, system modelling, and the enterprise. We apply that expertise across a spectrum of capabilities from deep research, through pragmatic systems design and management, into real user trials and deployment in BT's businesses. Through our research the centre promotes the commercial exploitation of pervasive ICT services by BT and other organisations, in the consumer and corporate markets.

Mark Shackleton | Centre Manager