Chirp, a small London tech start-up is working with EDF Energy to develop systems to monitor equipment at the French utility's nuclear power plants. The company has developed software that can detect when an object moves through a building and send alerts if it does so in a specific area. Along with EDF, it has secured £100,000 ($139,500) from the UK government to test the systems in a number of nuclear plants, following successful proof-of-concept trials. Chirp was created as a spin-out from University College London in 2011 and will now expand to meet the demands of the EDF project.
Chirp, a small London tech start-up is working with EDF Energy to develop systems to monitor equipment at the French utility's nuclear power plants. Chirp has created a technique for transmitting data by encoding it as near-ultrasonic sounds, which it describes as an "audio barcode". Along with EDF, it has secured £100,000 ($139,500) from the UK government to test the systems in a number of nuclear plants, following successful proof-of-concept trials. Chirp was created as a spin-out from University College London in 2011 and will now expand to meet the demands of the EDF project.