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Know Now Press Release: BeatHouse Service Launched
BeatHouse by KnowNow Information Ltd PRESS RELEASE KnowNow Information to launch ‘smart’ domestic energy management system at Eco Technology Show, Brighton Brings the level of data analysis benefits found in grand prix motor racing to domestic space and water heating...
BeatHouse Dashboard is Live
BeatHouse Dashboard v 1.0 The Beat House dashboard is now live. This is the first version which just shows basic data. The data source is Woodfords ( a different property located just around the corner from Beat House). This is nothing like Beat House at all, but it...
Tweets – making them visually enthralling
Our apprentice, Connor Moore, has been using the IBM Bluemix service to analyse tweets to support a customer project we are working on - MarineTechBlog. We asked Connor to provide a little detail in his first blog post for us. Making tweets interesting In this short...
KnowNow at the EcoTech Show
Speaking & Showing KnowNow has been invited to this year's EcoTech show in Brighton on June 11th & 12th. This will be the 3rd year I have attended but the first time I have been as a participant. KnowNow has both a stand and a speaking slot. We will be...
Cognicity Wrap Up – The Result
Firstly, congratulations to Voyage Control & PolySolar on winning Cohort One of the Cognicity Challenge. The thing is, even though KnowNow has not won the competition I can safely say we are already a Cognicity winner. How come? Simply having been part of...
KnowNow Final Pitch for Cognicity
Week 12 @ Cognicity - Pitching time The kn-i Pitch After 11 weeks on a start up challenge. One of the net results is a better pitch on what your product does and how you better sell yourself and what you do. On the 13th April, David & I got the chance in 5...
Week 8 to 11 @ Cognicity – Final Countdown
Final Countdown Apologies for the break in the blog cycle and the jump to week 11 from the last update way back on week 7. A personal saga has been my prime focus. However, lots has happened and we are now on the final stretch of Cognicity. Week 8 was all about...
Flooding & WUDoWUD. What’s in a name?
Flooding and WUDoWUD Our WUDoWUD project has seen significant progress over the last few weeks thanks to the tireless work of the team from the STFC and IBM. Our approach to the project has been to use historic data to help predict which areas would be susceptible to...
Week 7 @ Cognicity
KnowNow's 7th week at Cognicity Waterloo Sunset I am lucky in some respects in that I have seen some cracking sunsets. With the evenings getting longer photos like the one above will have to be taken later and later. Which is what I am expecting as KnowNow nears the...
National Apprenticeship Week
As it is National Apprenticeship Week we asked our apprentice, Connor Moore to write a few lines about his experience of working with KnowNow over the last 6 weeks. Connor is undertaking a Tech Industry Gold apprenticeship via Highbury College, and is KnowNow's first...
Week 6 at Cognicity – Reflection
Reflection now we are halfway through… The highlight for KnowNow on week 6 at Cognicity had to be the superb PR & marketing workshop. Yet again the high standard of workshops delivered by Cognicity is maintained. The other news was on the interoperability front,...
Week 5 @ Cognicity = Focus
FOCUS IS THE KEYWORD This week's blog is a highlight of two really excellent workshops and some great mentor feedback. Plus, for the first time, the whole KnowNow team (that is all 3 of us) spent the day in Canary Wharf, more on that experience later. Level 24 was...
Week 4 @ Cognicity
That Was the Week That Was The 4th week at Cognicity KnowNow saw us receive a number of visitors to our Level 24 office. This amongst the many highlights led to a more developed cultural use case for the Docklands Museum. Plus we participated in a great product...
Week 3 @ Cognicity
Cognicity and KnowNow in The News KnowNow was pleased to be in its local rag the 'Portsmouth News' this week which was great coverage for KnowNow and extends awareness of Cognicity down to the South Coast. Our 3rd week at Cognicity started with a highlight - a...
One Year Old: KnowNow’s Lessons for Entrepreneurs
Last week was very special. KnowNow has been trading for one year now. Phew, David & I survived our first year in business. Not only that we are cash positive and we have a growing pipeline of new opportunities. Yippee. Plus, I can see the marketplace...