FUNDED RESEARCH · IP · INDUSTRIAL CAPABILITY

Our Innovation Portfolio.

Research designed to create practical industrial outcomes.

IRIS combines funded innovation, protected intellectual property and industry-focused workforce development to move advanced technologies from research into real-world use.

FUNDED PROGRAMMES Innovate UK · UKRI · Horizon Europe
TECHNOLOGY Sovereign AI · 6G · Vision · AR
IMPACT Research → Validation → Deployment

Six areas of funded research, IP and capability development.

Our portfolio spans sovereign AI, intelligent agents, secure communications, augmented reality, industrial workforce capability and privacy-aware data technologies.

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INNOVATE UK · SOVEREIGN AI
ORION-X

Sovereign multi-agent AI for enterprise and critical industry.

Developing sovereign multi-agent AI architectures combining multimodal reasoning, verification, governance and secure enterprise deployment.

PROJECT NO. 10197092
PROGRAMME Sovereign AI Pipeline Phase 2
02
INNOVATE UK
ORION · PHASE 1

Intelligent agent orchestration for operational AI.

Coordinated AI agents and LLM orchestration for industrial and organisational workflows, providing the technical foundation for ORION-X.

PHASE Phase 1
FOCUS Agentic AI · LLM Orchestration
03
HORIZON EUROPE · MSCA
SCION

Secure and intelligent communications for the 6G era.

Advancing secure machine-to-machine communications, 6G technologies, digital twins and AI-enabled industrial automation.

GRANT 101072375
PROGRAMME Horizon Europe MSCA
04
INNOVATE UK
SMARTVISION AR

AI and augmented reality for manufacturing quality.

Combining visual AI and augmented reality to improve operator guidance, inspection and manufacturing quality-control workflows.

PROJECT NO. 10107877
FOCUS AI · AR · Quality Control
05
INNOVATE UK · NTU
INDUSTRIAL UPSKILLING

Applied AI workforce & professional practice.

With Nottingham Trent University, IRIS supports an industry-focused data science and AI pathway built around practical deployment and workforce capability.

PROJECT NO. 10194914
PARTNER Nottingham Trent University
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GRANTED PATENT · PROTECTED IP
DATA ANONYMISATION

Privacy-aware AI for sensitive operational data.

IRIS-developed anonymisation technology supports organisations seeking to extract analytical value while protecting sensitive operational information.

GRANTED UK PATENT GB2596037B Data anonymisation technology supporting privacy-aware analytics and AI.
07 · GLOBAL APPLIED INNOVATION

Solving real-world problems across international environments.

The IRIS team has worked across international projects and industrial environments including Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur, combining AI, data, research and engineering to address practical operational challenges.

Innovation focused on deployment, adoption and measurable operational impact.

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REAL-WORLD APPLICATION

Applying AI, data and engineering methods to challenges found in operational and industrial environments.

INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT

Working alongside organisations to understand practical constraints, workforce needs and technology adoption.

DEPLOYMENT FOCUS

Moving beyond research outputs toward systems and capabilities that can create measurable operational value.

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INDONESIA

Jakarta

Applied technology and problem-solving within operational and industrial environments.

02
MALAYSIA

Kuala Lumpur

Industry engagement connecting advanced digital technologies with practical organisational needs.