Neil Clark, Sadaf Bader and Andrew Grant represented the shortlisted BaselineNC Workplace Fatigue Monitoring Wearable at the CBRE Innovation Challenge 2026 final on the 23rd of April in London, England.
This was a unique opportunity to showcase BaselineNC to a wide network of CBRE representatives from across the United Kingdom who are actively seeking fresh and innovative supplier solutions to elevate their clients’ experience.
BaselineNC was shortlisted by CBRE — as a straight finalist from 290 submissions — based on its client value, ROI potential, market differentiation and ease of implementation, ultimately placing a close second in the Safety and Wellbeing category from the final four.
The Evolution of BaselineNC
Beginning as the Driver Innovation Safety Challenge (DISC), through to FOCUS+ and now BaselineNC, the project has seen the collaboration of academia, medical experts and industry to develop a world leading workplace fatigue monitoring system that can help save lives, reduce risk and deliver efficiencies in public transport but also across other industry sectors and safety-critical job roles.
First Prototype (Left) and Latest Version (Right)
Leading to a wider EIT Urban Mobility funded project involving Edinburgh Trams, DKV Debreceni Közlekedési Zrt. and Edinburgh Napier University, providing valuable data on how the system functions across different modes of public transport.
Recent evolutions include the development of Android™ and iOS® mobile applications, improvements to real-time dashboard visualisations and the development of AI-powered data analysis and insights functionality.
BaselineNC is also now part of the AVEVA Partner Ecosystem, supporting the protection of the human asset by further enabling the “human sensor” with a “predictive maintenance” approach.
The BaselineNC workplace fatigue has also been featured as part of the EIT Urban Mobility Impact Stories series: Wearable technology for human error prevention in transportation
