Published: 03/11/2015
The British Engineering Excellence Awards 2015
Navtech Radar’s Engineering team has won the Design Team of the Year, with Hardware Team Leader Richard Poulton being awarded the Design Engineer of the Year. These achievements continue the trend of success through innovation, for the company.
The British Engineering Excellence Awards (BEEAs) aim to shine a light on engineering excellence and innovation in the UK. Each year the awards receive over 140 nominations, and being selected as the winner is a huge honour.
The judges explained:“In a fiercely contested category, the Navtech team provided clear evidence that its multidisciplinary team was fast and efficient at delivering new technology to new areas across multiple markets. Its design solutions were inspired and innovative and the team clearly has huge potential: it has all the parts required to solve complex design puzzles in-house.”
The Navtech Hardware team focus’ on innovation
The team behind the development of Navtech’s innovative ClearWay™ traffic monitoring solution were selected for their ability to overcome a number of obstacles in the development of a product. Thus, transforming the market. ClearWay improves safety and traffic flow, by delivering automatic incident detection and traffic data on highways, tunnels and bridges. The product can be seen in action at the company’s website.
Richard Poulton, the Hardware Team Leader and winner of the BEEA’s Design Engineer of the Year said:“We’re all extremely proud to be a part of a team who consistently produce innovative solutions for safety and security applications around the world. This recognition in the form of such a prestigious award is a great honour for the whole company, and reinforces our reputation as a world class design team.”
Made up of a number of highly skilled engineers, Navtech Radar’s design team includes a broad range of specialists. However, they all work together as a single performing team. This dynamic has been pivotal in the development of products for applications including Security and Surveillance, Traffic Monitoring and Industrial Automation.
Navtech Radar is the forerunner in the design and manufacture of high resolution, cost-effective security and safety systems, which combine the company’s patented radar technology with sophisticated analytical software. Additionally, Navtech offers an impressive application portfolio from wide-area security surveillance, surface movement, traffic management to incident detection as well as industrial automation, branded respectively as AdvanceGuard®, ClearWay™ and SafeGuard™.
Navtech Radar has gained a well-deserved reputation for technology, service excellence and innovation. In fact, the team won the Queen’s Award for Innovation in 2010. In 2013 the company’s AdvanceGuard AGS1600 was awarded the Independent Detektor International Award as highly commended product in the Alarm & Control category.