Sensors & Signal Processing

The University of Edinburgh has particular research strengths within the Sensors and Signal Processing arena.  This expertise is truly cross-departmental enabling innovative and impactful solutions to today’s challenges.  Expertise which industry can call upon.

The research carried out here at the University of Edinburgh is of particular relevance to companies operating within the Healthcare, Environmental, Transport, Energy and Imaging sectors and we currently work with a number of companies within these areas.

Sensors and Signal processing enabling technologies are becoming the corner stone of many businesses today and will require ever increasing abilities in advanced data analysis to harness the knowledge they provide.  The University of Edinburgh hosts the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre which is one of Europe’s leading supercomputing centres and has the ability to manipulate and analyse vast amounts of data.

Here at Edinburgh, we are also home to the Scottish Microelectronics Centre (SMC), which has clean room facilities and specialises in microelectronics design and manufacture, an area that is critically important to sensors.  In addition, the Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems from the School of Engineering is on campus ensuring that a wealth of expertise is co-located.

The Institute for Digital Communications (IDCom), within the School of Engineering, is home to specialists in signal processing and communications. Our experts develop theory, algorithms and hardware for the next generation of signal processing, imaging and communication systems.

We also undertake research in sensor applications, whether through environmental sensing and Near Earth Observation, or in health.  Biosensors can range from DNA to tissue scale and our life scientists have a range of imaging systems to process biological data.