b'VISIONARY AWARD FORPROTECTING SOCIETY & SAVING LIVESThe Protecting Society & Saving Lives category has been designed to recognise the inherently innovative activity of emergency services, sailors, soldiers, aircrew and marines from around the world.This category seeks to recognise a member or a team within the armed forces or emergency services, who has developed an innovative concept or delivered an innovative product that has had the greatest impact in enhancing operational capability, improving conditions for personnel or increasing environmental sustainability of operations.Sponsored by Ministry of DefenceDefence Innovation Directorate is part of Ministry of Defence. Defence Innovation Directorate is one of thecentral enablers to innovation in defence, ensuring the Armed Forces maintain military advantage over ever evolving global threats. Defence Innovation plays a key role in allowing the Armed Forces to acquire thebest warfighting capabilities, implement better and more agile processes and to empower a culture thatis innovative by instinct.JHubMed & Army Medical Services (1 Div)Trial of Pando medical messaging to supported deployed healthcareWith Pando installed on a work or personal phone/tablet it is now possible for military user to see the availabilityof military colleagues in realtime and to request advice with instant message to specialistteams, enabling the first available specialist to respond, faster than before. Durham UniversityTesting the Screener: Novel 3D Threat Image Projection for Next Generation Aviation SecurityThe innovation is an algorithm that performs realistic threat image projection (TIP) in 3D volumetricimagery and is the first algorithm to combine bespoke volume segmentation, particle swarm optimisation and finally metal artefact generation that is indistinguishable from originally occurring threat items. JHubMed, Defence Medical Academy, Microsoft and KBR Mixed Reality Clinical Trainer (MRCT): simulating complex chemical poisoning symptomsin Military trainingThe Defence Medical Academy (DMA) worked closely with KBR and Microsoft to generate the worldsfirst mixed reality clinical simulator aimed at diagnosing and treating chemical poisoning.JHubMedAugmented Reality Technology to Enable reMote Integrated Surgery for Defence (ARTEMISUK)JubMed and Project LARA have worked closely with an SME (Proximie) to deliver a telemedicine system supporting surgical teams deployed overseas in Field Hospitals/Hospital ships. This is a transformational capability leap - and provides a networked surgical telemedicine solution which was easy to set up, small and lightweight, simple to use with minimal lag and consistent high picture/ sound quality.Creative Help Ltd, Nith Inshore Rescue, University of StrathclydeSafe PassageMapping navigable channels for safer shippingThis system uses satellite data fused in an Artificial Intelligence (AI) framework to map dangerous estuaries and automatically detect changes in channel locations. Safe Passage will then deliver a change detection alert and updated map of channel location to Digital Navigation Charts (DNC) in use as navigation aids in vessels across the world.eandt.theiet.org/innovation#eandtawards 11'