Gain an insight into the multidisciplinary testbeds within Walton Institute

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Walton offers a diverse range of industry focused testbeds funded by Enterprise Ireland. Designed to support researchers and companies in developing their innovative goals, the broad range of equipment offers a comprehensive suite of services across sectors such as healthcare, training, pharma, agri and tourism. 

Industry Testbeds

Central to Walton Institute is research, and the state-of-the-art testbeds located in the south east of Ireland. Testing is critical when developing new technologies. Researchers utilise multiple testbeds to conduct experiments in areas such as quantum communications, future networks and energy. 

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Researching, developing, deploying, and securing innovative research infrastructures, testbeds, and platforms at production grade readiness levels.

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Key Areas Of Expertise

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RIT Head of Division

Jerry Horgan

Tech Lead

John Ronan

Senior Systems Administrator

Michael Kugel

Systems Administrator

Derek O' Keeffe

Junior System Administrator

Tibor Molnar

Our Team

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Sensor Technologies for Remote Environmental Aquatic Monitoring

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Exploiting nano satellite (CubeSat) technology to secure and optimise the next generation of communication networks using Quantum and THz channels. 

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ENL Head of Division

Dr. Deirdre Kilbane

Using Quantum Computing Algorithms and Service, such as Random Number Generators, to provide optimisation and security to classical networks and data centres. 

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Quantum Communications offer a means to enhance the security of networks, with the promise of increased information density in a Quantum Internet. 

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Powerful AI and Machine Learning techniques to support autonomous systems

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Research Unit Manager PAS

Dr Steven Davy

Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr. Dixon Vimalajeewa

Precision Agriculture (PA) and Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) come to assist in optimising agricultural and livestock production and minimising the wastes and costs.

CYBELE

AQUASMART’s objective is to strengthen the competitiveness and growth potential of the aquaculture production companies

AQUASMART

Intelligent algorithms powering the next wave of autonomous systems.

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Technical Lead

Sean Lyons

Experienced Software Developer

Kristina Matuleviciute

Applied Researcher

Micheal Crotty

Software Engineer

Jason Whelan

Senior Software Engineer

John McLaughlin

Junior Software Developer

Niall Grant

Senior Software Research Engineer

David Ryan

Darren Leniston

Commercialisation Specialist

Christine O'Meara

piSCES

RegEnergy

SOGNO: Service Oriented Grid for the Network of the Future

Smarter Aquaculture

RE-SERVE: Renewables in a Stable Electric Grid

As the world becomes hyper-connected, the network edge needs redesign to be flexible enough to support new vertical applications.

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Dr. Mohammed Taj-Eldin

Dr. Nouman Ashraf

Researcher

Paul Malone

PhD Student

Kanika Sharma

Senior Research Fellow

Dr Bernard Butler

MELD – Machine Learning for Early Lameness Detection

RAMBLE

As networks become more complex, their management requires knowledge of their resources, services and usage.

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Experienced Software Research Engineer

Ehsan Elahi

PhD Researcher

Nikita Jalodia

Scalable Service Function Chain Management

AutoScale

Cyberphysical systems need to be resilient against failure. The data that flows in networks is a liquid asset that needs protection.

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Strategic EU Liaison Manager

James Clarke

AgriDISCRETE

Efficient analysis of data in resource constrained devices. 

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Even though 5G adoption is just beginning, the roadmap calls for higher data rates, lower latencies and more efficient edge networks.

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Dr Noureddine Boujnah

TERAPOD

The divisions research in this area is focused on achieving a passive monitoring model that facilitates a precision health approach.

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Martin Tolan

Philip O’Brien

Yahya Almardeny

Dr. Ruisong Han

Research Project Manager

Gary McManus

Carelink aims to reduce stress for caregivers, dramatically increase the survival rates of wandering patients and promote low-cost community based caring.&nbsp;

CarelinkAAL

FAITH is an EU-funded research project that aims to provide an Artificial Intelligence application that remotely identifies depression markers, using Federated Learning, in people that have undergone cancer treatment.

FAITH

TransSec

The "fifth generation" of telecommunication systems, or 5G, will be one of the most critical building blocks of the European digital economy and society in the next decade. Significant steps towards this strategic technology are being made at EU level, within the framework of the 5G Public Private Partnership, in view of validating the technology across domains.

5G-Solutions

A new paradigm shift has occurred in the field of communication systems and networks where artificial communication systems are created from biological components 

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Geoflly Adonias

Computer Science PhD Student/Electrical Engineer

Caio Queiroz da Fonseca

Bruna Karen de Sousa Costa Queiroz da Fonseca

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Dr. Hamdan Awan

Dr. Daniel Perez Martins

Samitha Sulakshana Somathilaka

Gladiator

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Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality technologies are achieving mass adoption in numerous sectors including big pharma, education, manufacturing, healthcare and gaming.

AR/VR Technical Lead

Ian Mills

Experienced Research Software Developer

Stephen Barnes

Ryan McCloskey

Junior Software Research Engineer