What we do
Transform what matters most
We’ve been innovating for over 60 years, and our team of curious and technical engineers have in-depth market knowledge, exceptional expertise, and a passion for developing cutting-edge solutions that are always tried and tested.
Connecting the physical and digital worlds
Our engineers, scientists and consultants include world-experts with decades of experience. We apply our rich heritage of doing things no one's done before to make a lasting impact, helping to create long-term value for our customers.
Innovations
Our experts have conceptualised and developed key innovations that have revolutionised industries.
Scanning heavy goods vehicles in motion
Searching heavy goods vehicles at border control can be time consuming and places challenges on how to best deploy patrol officers and resources. Roke developed a robustly designed system to save time, ease operator burden & improve search accuracy by imaging non-metallic goods vehicles.
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Defence against spoofing
In February 2015, the space domain was designated as UK Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) by the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI). Space satellites underpin our national security and defence efforts.
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Wireless data links for oil and gas well monitoring
Developing wireless data links to operate in extreme environments.
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Providing hearing solutions through simulation
Assisting with the development of the radios and antennas in an award winning advanced hearing solution.
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VIPER: Electronic warfare planning and data triage
Reducing operator and training burden, improving pre-mission planning and expediting mission execution and post mission analysis.
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High-speed variant MRA
Working closely with customers to develop a new high-speed Miniature Radar Altimeter (MRA) variant.
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Supporting Field Army Survivability through Electronic Warfare experimentation
Collaborating with key stakeholders and open source research to conduct a threat assessment to determine the likely capabilities of peer adversary Electronic Warfare (EW) equipment.
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DAMARC: Data science in policing
Providing crucial enterprise architecture and stakeholder engagement capabilities to influence the creation of a UK data analysis model and application reference catalogue (DAMARC) contacts network.
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Design and delivery of a UK national threat and opportunity hub
Leading the design and implementation for a multi-agency threat and opportunity hub owned by the UK intelligence, law enforcement, and policing communities.
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NELSON: Driving Royal Navy digitisation
An award-winning digital transformation programme, revolutionising the way the Royal Navy conducts its operations at sea and ashore.
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Wireless utilities management device for decentralised energy
Helping Guru Systems develop an award-winning utilities management device to save energy, time and the environment.
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Developing high assurance systems
Optimising business architecture, technology and processes via emerging cutting edge technologies and techniques, to combat socio-technical cyber threats.
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Soldier as a platform
Empowering soldiers to overcome physical and cognitive burden through the application of technology.
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Delaying and disrupting cyber attacks
Seamlessly enhancing enterprise-level cyber security deployments.
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RESOLVE-Tactical Solution
Providing close target reconnaissance and individual force protection through the use of a bespoke lightweight dismounted close quarter Electronic Surveillance manpack.
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Agile C2
Combining our Collect, Communicate and Understand capabilities to identify optimisation techniques and develop solutions to improve HQ efficiency.
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Situational Awareness
Ensuring the coherence and integration of data and information at all levels of command.
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High Mobility Electronic Warfare Capability (HMEWC)
Developing an integrated command and control system to allow immediate threat warning and building block intelligence collection.
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Complex information systems integration
Making sense of the operational environment through the collection of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) data.
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Strategic HF monitoring & direction finding
Providing the ability to monitor, segregate and geo-locate long range strategic targets combined with tactical battlefield HF communications.
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Video image search with Media Miner™
Media Miner ™ captures, analyses and segments huge quantities of video data to find common patterns, scenes and objects.
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Bio-inspired data monitoring and alerting systems
Developing a robust and sophisticated AI system to help inform human decision making in real-time complex environments.
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Accurate location and navigation without GPS
Developing a self-contained location and navigation system for locations where GPS is not available.
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Developing AI systems that are safe and secure
Assessing how adversarial techniques could be used to ‘fool’ AI systems used in applications such as video surveillance.
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Digital security for transport systems
Ensuring critical infrastructure and transport systems are secure against cyber security attack.
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Automating industrial inspection
Delivering an automated inspection system to allow manufacturers to maintain the accuracy and consistency of their product.
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Characterising criminal behaviour
Enabling law enforcement agencies to quickly and easily visualise data.
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Finding and targeting criminal electronic devices
Giving UK law enforcement officers a toolset to locate and disrupt targeted criminal devices and networks.
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Protecting personnel from IEDs
Protecting against Radio Frequency initiated Remotely-Controlled Improvised Explosive Devices on the battlefield.
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Man-portable situational awareness systems
Aiding soldiers in the field in accessing complex data systems.
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Business transformation in the UK Home Office
Transforming a Home Office programme through delivering a new targeted intercept workflow system.
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Roke on Mars: The technology behind the Beagle 2 Mars Lander
Key parts of our Miniature Radar Altimeters (MRAs) have been thoroughly tested on a 200 million kilometre flight through space to Mars, as part of the Beagle 2 Mars Lander.
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DAB: Ushering in the digital era
We worked with Hitachi and Ensigma to develop the first single chip DAB radio frequency front end.
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Iris: Pioneering road safety
Our Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR), Iris, has been used in systems performing a variety of applications worldwide and was one of the first systems on the market.
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Hawk-eye: Industry changing technology
Developed in 2001, the world-renowned ball tracking computer system has its roots in Roke, where it was conceived and created.
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Award winning innovation: Roke wins the 2011 Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation
We won the award for our groundbreaking RESOLVE electronic warfare manpack product.
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insights
World-changing innovation for a changing world
At Roke, we bring the physical and digital together in ways that revolutionise industries. Every day, we apply fresh thinking to help you stay ahead and thrive in a rapidly changing world.
Insights
The geography of innovation
Innovation is constantly evolving. Our Innovation Director, discusses how understanding where innovation is geographically located is key to predicting and meeting future technological trends and solutions.
Did you know?
Roke helped develop ANPR
In the early 1990s Roke was influential in developing automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR) technology. While the concept of ANPR had already been invented, it was Roke’s pioneering use of software that further developed the technology. Originally developed to read serial numbers from aircraft tail fins, Roke went on to sell hundreds of licenses, becoming widely used by the Netherlands police (via Siemens Netherlands).
