Sensors play an important role in our day to-day lives; detecting and monitoring change in temperature, light, pressure, sound and humidity, their uses are wide reaching in industry, safety and security, and within our personal gadgets and devices and their usage can only increase as technology advances even further.

The newly opened Sensor City, a flagship University Enterprise Zone and collaboration between the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University, is attracting innovative SMEs to Liverpool and will increase productivity in Liverpool City Region manufacturing organisations through the development of smarter products, processes and supply chains.

It offers the opportunity for Liverpool to position itself at the forefront of an emerging global revolution, in manufacturing driven by technology advances, merging the digital and physical worlds.