RAPIDLY-expanding Northern Real Time Applications (NRTA), based in the newest extension to the Innovation Centre at York's Science Park, has united its Realogy and LiveDevices divisions under the LiveDevices name.

The company has engineered a technological breakthrough in super-efficient embedded Internet connectivity software which will enable people's refrigerators to automatically order goods when stocks get low; to operate virtual juke boxes in every home; or to detect when far-flung vending machines are getting low or need repairs.