Ireland

Active intelligent reconfigurable surfaces for 6G wireless comms are the subject of UL-Ireland research project announced today. Such surfaces can be used to intercept weak millimetre-wave and terahertz signals, boosting and guiding them to receivers, according to the University of Glasgow, which is working with the Tyndall National Institute’s Wireless Communications Laboratory on the project, called AR-COM. “Current materials used ...

Ubotica, the Irish space AI specialist, is taking part in the MESEO project. This aims to develop a “flexible, and scalable multi-mission Earth Observation system for large-scale data processing”. MESEO is a Horizon Europe-backed initiative, part of the European Union’s Space Programme for improving the use of Earth Observation data. It is running from 1 December 2023 until 30 November ...

Located close to Limerick, ADI’s Catalyst R&D centre has a series of ‘living labs’ and on-site R&D engineers dedicated to the collaborative development and prototyping of products. By Caroline Hayes. As Europe’s second largest semiconductor producer, ADI has considerable R&D experience. It officially opened the €100m (~$108m/£85.3m) Catalyst R&D facility in Limerick, Ireland, in March 2022. After 18 months of ...

The Irish government has awarded funding of €7.9 million to the Ireland-based National Space Subsystems and Payloads Initiative (NSSPI) consortium. The investment was made through its Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund (DTIF), and the Dublin-based Ubotica – a space AI specialist – is among the members of the group. The grant will be invested in the consortium’s development of space technology ...

Ireland is set to launch its first spacecraft,  the Educational Irish Research Satellite-1 (EIRSAT-1). This is a European Space Agency (ESA) project led by students at University College Dublin (UCD), and EIRSAT-1 – a 2U CubeSat – will provide an in-orbit demonstration of three Irish developed payloads. First, there is GMOD, a scintillator based detector, developed in UCD, which aims ...

AND is to invest up to $35 million in R&D Ireland over four years. The investment is intended to fund several strategic R&D projects through the addition of up to 290 highly skilled engineering and research positions, as well as a broad range of additional support roles. The investment was announced in Dublin yesterday by Minister for Enterprise, Trade and ...

Analog Devices is to invest €100 million in a Europen research centre in Limerick, over three years. ADI Catalyst will be a 100,000ft2 custom-build its campus on the Raheen Business Park in Limerick. “ADI Catalyst is a state-of-the-art collaboration accelerator where ecosystems of customers, business partners and suppliers engage with ADI,” according to the company. “This latest phase of expansion will ...

Analog Devices and the University of Limerick have announced two scholarship programs to honour late ADI CTO Peter Real (pictured), a Limerick alumnus – ADI has research labs in Ireland and research connections with the University. “The Peter Real Analog Devices Bernal Fulbright PhD Scholarship will be awarded in partnership with the Bernal Institute at UL and the Fulbright Commission,” said ...

Intel has committed to invest $1.5m over the next three years in research in semiconductor materials, devices and photonics technologies at Tyndall National Institute,  the Irish ICT research institute. Intel has been investing in research at the Cork-based institute since 2009. Bernie Capraro, Research Manager, Silicon Technology at Intel Ireland, said: “The standard of work from Tyndall researchers is top-class, from ...

Sigfox and Irish telecoms firm VT Networks have rolled out a long-range low data rate IoT network in less than eight months. The two companies expect to connect over a million devices by 2017. Remote nodes on Sigfox networks, which are low data rate and ultra-narrowband, are expected to run for over 10 years on two AA cells. Applications are ...