Students take on the Internet of Things with Imagination’s
MetaFlow platform Imagination has a number of close links with
universities supporting both research and teaching programmes.
One example of this is the Group Design Project which is done as
part of the University of Southampton Electronic and Computer
Science undergraduate Master of Electronic Engineering (MEng)
courses. The project lasts for 10 weeks, and the students work
in groups of five. External companies are allowed to propose
projects for a group of students to do, and then they support
the group throughout the project. We have been involved in the
project for a number of years, with students working on audio
fingerprinting, JPEG encoding or decoding and motion JPEG. The
MetaFlow ‘Home Recommender’ project This year we asked the
students to produce a Home Recommender system. This analyses the
web traffic on a home network, and based on the webpages visited
suggests new relevant webpages that people might be interested
in (this is similar to A