Smith Myers , the worldwide chief in mobile communications options, has been honoured with a King’s Award for Enterprise Innovation 2024.
Smith Myers ARTEMIS suite of Search and Rescue SAR techniques have been saving lives all over the world. Just lately chosen for a number of main UK, European and North American SAR and Coast Guard Packages, ARTEMIS gives a brand new and mission essential functionality to aircrew/first responders and is deployed all over the world in Maritime Patrol, Border Management, Aerial Firefighting and Pure Disasters.
Introduced immediately (Monday 6May), Smith Myers has been nationally recognised with the distinguished King’s Award for Enterprise and particularly, for its Excellence in Innovation, an accolade acknowledged worldwide.
“That is actually an amazing honour and tribute to our staff who’ve created an evolving and modern life-saving suite of merchandise. In our 37th 12 months in enterprise, we’re delighted to have been recognised for Excellence in Innovation – the important thing driver of all the things we do,” stated Peter Myers, co-founder and Firm Director.
As an employee-owned firm, Smith Myers attributes its success to a close-knit staff of gifted engineers and their deal with making use of innovative expertise to offer options for its clients. The corporate’s 37 years of collaboration with community operators, authorities businesses, regulation enforcement, navy, and search and rescue organisations has solidified its place as a frontrunner in modern options. By partnering with crewed and uncrewed plane and ground-based automobile OEMs and integrators, Smith Myers continues to develop its product portfolio, together with ground-based ARTEMIS techniques to be used in mountain rescue, on water rescue or remotely operated automobiles. ARTEMIS is acknowledged as the worldwide chief in SAR mobile expertise and has beforehand been recognised by the Royal Aeronautical Society with its Silver Medal award.
“ARTEMIS is an ideal instance of how our staff applies trade main mobile expertise to offer a significant resolution to a real-world drawback. As the primary system of its sort, ARTEMIS continues to steer the market worldwide. Shut work with our increasing buyer base has seen a number of spirals of functionality innovation already. Merely put, ARTEMIS saves extra lives, sooner,” stated Andrew Munro, Managing Director. “Everybody at Smith Myers must be very happy with this prestigious recognition of their work,” he added.
The King’s Awards for Enterprise, beforehand often known as The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, have been renamed final 12 months to mirror His Majesty The King’s want to proceed the legacy of HM Queen Elizabeth II’s by recognising excellent UK companies. The Award programme, now in its 58th 12 months, is essentially the most prestigious enterprise award within the nation, with profitable companies in a position to make use of the esteemed King’s Awards Emblem for the subsequent 5 years.