Champions chosen to pilot space-powered solutions to real world problems
Champions awarded in Deloitte’s global space technology innovation program, GRAVITY Challenge, which pairs innovators with organisations to provide cutting-edge solutions to real-world issues using space technology and capability.
Over the past six months, the innovator teams have been working closely with organisations to ideate solutions to challenges being faced in industries such banking, transport, insurance and marine conservation. From helping banking customers in the UK measure their carbon footprint, to delivering on-the-spot natural disaster payments in Japan, space technology and capability is at the centre of all solutions.
Now in its fourth round, 34 teams applied to participate in GRAVITY this January. From the eight teams invited to collaborate with organisations over the past few months, five teams have now been selected to move to a proof of concept (PoC) with their relevant organisation.
Thank you to our Challenge Providers, Data Providers and GRAVITY mentors who helped and supported the teams throughout this round as they created their innovative solutions.
GRAVITY 04 Challenges
To read a full description of each team’s proposed answers to the problem statements below, click here.
Organisation: South Australia’s Department for Infrastructure and Transport
Identify and validate new ways to assess the condition of road assets (and potentially other types of assets such as electrical equipment and structures) using space capabilities.
Challenge Champion - Digital Content Analysis Technology (D-CAT)
Challenge Champion - Spottitt
Organisation: Whale and Dolphin Conservation
This challenge seeks to measure phytoplankton productivity against the presence of whale populations to unlock support for whale-based, deep-blue carbon climate solutions.
Challenge Champion - SpaceWhale
Organisation: The NatWest Group
Support our business customers understand their environmental footprint and what positive actions they can take to reduce their emissions using real-time data.
Challenge Champion - Digital Content Analysis Technology (D-CAT)
Finalist - Little Place Labs
Finalist - Space Intelligence
Organisation: Statistics Canada - Construction
Using open/available municipal GIS datasets, develop an automated process for aggregating land inventories available for development.
Challenge Champion – Latitudo 40
Organisation: Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance
Help us to achieve claim payment at the same day of claim notice, at the height of inundation of damaged properties by utilizing space datasets, including satellite imagery.
Finalist – Rexy.ai
GRAVITY 04 Award Winners
AgriFutures Australia: Down to Earth GRAVITY award
Research commissioned by AgriFutures Australia in 2019 found earth and marine observation, including satellites, drones and sensors, had an estimated value to agriculture fisheries and forestry’s in the Asia Pacific region of 37 billion dollars. With that in mind, and as proud sponsors of GRAVITY Challenge, AgriFutures is delighted to announce Digital Content Analysis Technologies (D-CAT) as the winner of their award. Watch the full video here.
Australian Space Agency: UK-Australia Space Bridge Award
The UK-Australia Space Bridge was established in February 2021 to unlock new ways of cooperating and increasing trade and investment between the two nations. The Australian Space Agency (ASA) proudly sponsor GRAVITY as the program supports the objectives of the Space Bridge. ASA is delighted to award Digital Content Analysis Technologies (D-CAT) the award for exemplifying the spirit of the agreement and showing the impact international collaborations can bring to the space industry. Watch the video here.
To join us in our next round of GRAVITY launching later this year, register your interest here.