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.
Automatically detecting, categorising and quantifying water pollutants for Anglian Water
Companies like Anglian Water currently have to deploy physical ground sensors to monitor pollutants. This is challenging because of the geographic spread and seasonal changes in affected water bodies. Anglian Water’s @one Alliance partnership contacted Roke to develop a conceptual solution introducing intelligent digital solutions to automatically detect, categorise and quantify water pollutants.
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Securing health data vulnerability for the NHS Transformation Directorate
When seeking to solve a medical or clinical research problem, significant amounts of data is required to provide insights and trends to correctly evaluate an approach or solution. We were asked to work alongside the NHS Transformation Directorate to develop tools which can assist in determining if synthetic clinical datasets are vulnerable to adversarial attacks.
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Using defence AI technology to manage our environment
Roke has proven expertise in specialist technology that helps solve complex problems and realise smarter ways of working. In this case-study, we demonstrated how our ground-breaking work in defence can be innovatively applied to reap environmental benefits in the Scottish Highlands.
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Developing Machine Learning security principles for the National Cyber Security Centre
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) identified a need to develop a set of easy to understand principles to ensure developers can use and create machine learning models safely and securely. In an effort to triage the threat landscape, Roke was employed by the NCSC to work collaboratively with its Security of ML team.
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Agile crime case management
Ongoing criminal cases are managed with the support of an event log, updated by investigators with chronological entries and distributed activities. In large-scale investigations, this flat structure can slow down the tracking of progress and actions. Find out how we researched more agile ways in which law enforcement officers could streamline their approach to case management.
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Acoustic drone detection
As drone technology improves, security threats are rapidly evolving. Locating these devices is critical, but different geographic and electromagnetic environments often require very different approaches to detection, and active methods like radar are not always viable. To counter this, passive techniques, like acoustic monitoring, must be developed.
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AI comparative CT scans
The current process for radiology reviews for oncology patients is that disease progression is evaluated by comparing Computerised Tomography (CT) scans. This process is time consuming and complicated. Find out how we used AI to develop a proof of concept that has the potential to speed up the analysis of CT scans.
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Automating complex inspection tasks for Rolls-Royce
Turbine engines must be regularly inspected to detect key maintenance requirements given the quality, cost and safety critical nature of the product. Find out how we worked with Rolls-Royce on its INSPECT system to design and develop algorithms that identify defects in compressor blades in videos of engines spinning down after use.
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Dismounted situational awareness systems
Providing dismounted soldiers with access to real-time information to make decisions quicker with increased situational awareness.
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Providing insight to NHS Resolution
Find out how we provided insight to a project focussing on predicting the level of clinical claims based on available NHS data sets.
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Improving geolocation for UK Law Enforcement communities
Accuracy is critical when making use of information from communications data to investigate missing persons cases. Find out how we worked with the Law Enforcement community to help them use geolocation accurately and efficiently.
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Assuring availability and quality for an Emergency Services Network
Over 300,000 first responders across Great Britain need a dedicated emergency services network they can rely on to save lives and help keep communities safe. Roke was tasked with providing independent design assurance of an Air-to-Ground (A2G) network.
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LOCATE-T: Advanced mobile Electronic Support
Find out how we created a mobile extension of our LOCATE system which can be deployed quickly in order to support the operational needs of commanders and their units in complex environments.
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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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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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Roke at the Olympics: Supporting Team GB with world-class engineering
Over the years Roke has applied its world-class engineering to support a number of Team GB Olympic athletes including rowing and BMX teams.
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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 technology has supported Team GB at multiple Olympic Games
We’ve applied our world-class engineering skills to support athletes in a variety of sports, including during the Olympic Games. Over the years Roke technology has worked in tandem with a number of Team GB groups of athletes including the BMX team from Rio 2016, the gold medal winning rowing team of Triggs-Hodge, Reed, James and Gregory from London 2012, and even as part of the bid for the London Games.
