As 2024 comes to a close, we reflect on a year of achievements and milestones. From expanding our team and being awarded prestigious contracts to being accepted onto boundary-pushing accelerator programmes, it has been an exciting year of growth and innovation. Take a look at the moments that defined our 2024.

Highlights of 2024

The PRAM team grows.
This year we saw the PRAM team expand to include new R&D engineer, Sinéad Ward, joining the ranks to help in delivering on the multiple innovation developments that we have been delivering this year and continue to deliver going into 2025. Sinéad is an experienced entrepreneur and innovator with experience in data engineering and analysis and she brings exceptional drive and vision that will no doubt shape the future of PRAM.

Monitoring natural flood risk management
This year PRAM was appointed to the Otterburn NFM Monitoring Study. The project, being led by ARUP & the Environment Agency, seeks to trial a range of innovative monitoring and modelling tools to better understand the efficacy of installing Natural Flood Management (NFM) measures to reduce flooding risk in the catchment.

PRAM sensors were deployed on sites across West Yorkshire in December and we continue to demonstrate the ability of PRAM to generate unique, high value, high granularity datasets in near real-time to better understand & characterise the behaviour of flood waters and the resulting impact of localised flooding.
Rising to the Challenge

We’re thrilled to announce that PRAM has been selected as a winner of the RISE Riverine Community Resilience Challenge alongside Merak Labs! We’ll be piloting our riverine flash flood alerting solution in the living lab of Southwest Virginia to help protect people and property against the devastating impacts of intensifying storms and flooding.

What’s in store in 2025

Moving forward with Sellafield
Building on our continued success on developing ground-breaking solutions for monitoring corrosion in critical ventilation ducts in Sellafield, we will continue to test, develop and demonstrate the unique abilities of 4D radar to detect highly critical defects in the most challenging conditions. Our ongoing testing is proving to be very compelling demonstrating the ability to detect even small levels of corrosion at up to 20 metres away and around multiple bends in ductwork.
Challenge owner, Mike Parrish, Lead Systems Engineer at Sellafield Ltd, said 'Our engagement with PRAM has been very successful to date. The team has worked collaboratively with us to understand our requirements for the product, and the initial performance of the technology is impressive. We look forward to the forthcoming deployments on-site'.

PRAM and HS2
PRAM has been accepted onto an innovation accelerator run by High Speed 2 Limited (HS2), supported by Connected Places Catapult and in partnership with the Department for Transport. We will be accelerated through a bespoke 20-week programme to develop innovative solutions for automating asset management identifying, monitoring and managing the condition of rail assets on HS2.
PRAM will be engaging directly with the HS2 asset management teams and the wider supply chain to address some of the most complex and difficult asset condition monitoring challenges using 4D radar sensors. We are really excited about being part of one of the most exciting infrastructure projects in the world.

The future is bright
2025 is shaping up to be an exciting time for PRAM as we continue to monitor the most challenging, critical and complex assets across sectors. Stay up to date with developments on our News page.