As part of our ongoing commitment to cyber security, Cerberus Nuclear are pleased to announce that following a successful audit we have been awarded the Cyber Essentials Plus certification.
Cyber Essentials is a Government-backed and industry-supported scheme that helps businesses protect themselves against the growing threat of cyber attacks and provides a clear statement of the basic controls organisations should have in place to protect them.
The Cyber Essentials Plus certification involves a more rigorous test of a companies IT systems where cyber security experts carry out vulnerability and penetration tests to make sure an organisation is protected.
Our Cyber Essentials Plus certification marks another step of continuous improvement for the company and provides additional confidence to all our clients regarding our approach to data security.
Surgical Mask Ear Saver - 3D Printing
Our 3D printer has been put to good use over the past week in the creation of ear savers for surgical masks worn by NHS staff at St Mary's Children's Hospital in Manchester.
An ear saver is worn at the back of the head and provides pressure relief for the surgical mask wearers' ears; elastic can often rub if worn for long periods causing discomfort and requiring constant adjustment. The use of the ear saver also aims to improve mask fitting.
We created a custom lightweight ergonomic design that can be easily 3D printed in large numbers, and so far we have supplied over 150.
We hope our very small contribution helps and we would like to share our appreciation for everyone working for the NHS at this challenging time.
If you have 3D printing capacity and would like to use our latest design then please get in touch.
Object Recognition - Computer Vision
We have developed a custom computer vision object identification algorithm. As a demonstration, we trained a neural network to identify cars and lorries on a motorway using R-CNN object detection.
The algorithm identifies a number of objects, object type (car/lorry etc.), object colour, object speed and confidence in match. In addition, a report is generated that summarises the information gathered over time.
Cerberus Nuclear has access to the necessary computing power for near real-time, high-accuracy identification. The example was produced to demonstrate validity for stopped car identification as well as traffic monitoring.
In addition to this example, computer vision has a number of nuclear applications that we will be looking to build upon in the coming weeks.
If you would like to know more or if you have a specific challenge, which you think computer vision may solve, don't hesitate to get in touch.
The Generator - Point Cloud
For many years companies and networking groups have used this facility for seminars and lectures to facilitate networking, knowledge sharing and collaboration opportunities.
Cerberus Nuclear were delighted to offer our services to Birchwood Park, which then allows them to showcase this valued facility in a unique manner.
The original point cloud consisted of over 100 million points of data created from multiple 3D scans. Our scans produced a high-density point cloud with accuracy of 1mm.
The interactive model shown above has been downscaled to ~2 million points to cater for optimised dynamic viewing.
A big thank you goes to Birchwood Park for allowing us to access The Generator, for more information check out:
Northern Nuclear Alliance & BECBC: Defence and Infrastructure
Cerberus Nuclear attended the Defence Infrastructure Event at Birchwood Park Engine Rooms.
There were some very interesting talks from Gary Shuttleworth (Morgan Sindall), Mark Robinson (Babcock) & Paul Kelly (Volker Stevin).
Thank you to Northern Nuclear Alliance @Nuclearuknorth & Britain's Energy Coast Business Cluster @BECBC for organising the event.
University of Liverpool - Shielding Design Process Lecture
The Shielding Forum (TSF) has provided support for the Radiation Shielding Module of the NTEC course for many years providing an industry-focused knowledge input to the radiation shielding module.
Several TSF member organisations provide lectures on a wide range of subjects from Monte Carlo and deterministic codes as well as practical radiation shielding applications.
Cerberus Nuclear is a key member of TSF and provides a student lecture on the Shielding Design Process our talk focuses on how this high-level process is used in industry to support facility design.
