The ICS Technology Gateway is the commercial interface of Walton Institute and is here to support start-ups, micro-SME’s, and scaling SME’s in direct industry projects. 

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The Technology Gateway engages in contract research to solve specific technical challenges for Irish companies. These projects are typically undertaken by companies that they can gain access to research knowledge in a quicker timeframe. 
The Walton Institute also engages in consulting to specific research, technical or knowledge challenges for Irish companies. Consulting engagements tend to be high-value engagements using Walton researchers to examine specific issues and make recommendations.

e-Textiles

E-Textile Lab intelligent smart wearable garments for the detection and sensing of data can be knitted and woven into fabric.

Enterprise Ireland

The Innovation Voucher programme was developed to build links between Ireland’s public knowledge providers (such as Walton Institute) and small businesses. Innovation Vouchers worth €20,000 combined are available to assist a company or companies to explore a business opportunity or problem with a registered knowledge provider such as the Walton Institute. Check out the <a href="https://wordpress.waltoninstitute.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Innovation-Voucher-FAQs.pdf">Innovation Voucher FAQ&#8217;s</a>.
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The IP programme offers financial support to companies who engage in collaborative research projects with Walton Institute. Enterprise Ireland provides grants of up to 80% towards eligible costs of the research project. The proposal process and administration of the project is managed by Walton Institute. Walton uses the EI-IP programme to undertake joint research and development, which has a high degree of risk with EI HPSUs, large Irish companies and multinationals located in Ireland.

The aim of the Commercialisation Fund Programme is to improve the competitiveness of the Irish economy through the creation of technology-based start-up companies and the transfer of innovations developed in Higher Education Institutes and Research Performing Organisations to industry in Ireland. 
The programme will fund the development of innovations at all stages of the commercial pipeline to the point where they can be commercialised as new products, services and companies.

European Union Grants

The Technology Gateway can also advise on larger project grants, utilising European Union funds for SMEs and fast track to innovation funds for micro-SMEs. The team can help navigate the multitude of grants on offer and help find collaborators from across the EU.

Visit our project page for more on our EU projects

Walton Institute offers companies access to cutting edge living lab infrastructure. funded by Enterprise Ireland Capital Call since 2019. These state-of-the-art labs are open to organisations of all sizes, from start-up to scale, with opportunities to test innovations, apply use cases or to receive bespoke training in a particular piece of equipment. Contact the Technology Gateway team to arrange a visit.

Mixed Reality Lab

Walton Institute&#8217;s Mixed Reality Lab offers a vast array of virtual and augmented reality equipment including Hololens, Oculus Quests and a VR Treadmill, to test all types of virtual scenarios.

Satellite

Satellite Radio Communications Testbed hosts satellite comms, 5G with SDR nodes; a 0 &#8211; 6GHz frequency range Spectrum Analyser and a Vector Network Analyser; 0 &#8211; 6GHz frequency range, and a fully operational Satellite Ground Station.

Technology Licensing in SETU is managed through the Technology Transfer Office (TTO). It is the TTO that licenses the outputs of EI-IPs to the partner companies. In addition, Walton Institute develops service frameworks and technologies independent of partner companies through the EI Commercialisation Fund and the European Commission Framework programme and Walton Institute works hand-in-hand with the TTO to identify opportunities to license these frameworks to Irish industry or to Irish entrepreneurs to help create new start-ups.

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In partnership with Enterprise Ireland, our role is to deliver technology solutions through collaboration on projects which are close to the market needs of the Irish industry.

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Walton Institute have a proven track record in supporting high potential start-up companies in the South East leading to the creation of over 17 spin-out and spin-in companies.

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Legacy Publications

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

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Tech Lead

John Ronan

Senior Systems Administrator

Michael Kugel

Systems Administrator

Derek O' Keeffe

System Administrator

Tibor Molnar

Sensor Technologies for Remote Environmental Aquatic Monitoring

STREAM

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

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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

Niall Grant

Senior Software Research Engineer

David Ryan

Darren Leniston

Commercialisation Specialist

Christine O'Meara

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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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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

Addressing advanced communication, collection, storage and analysis of big data from pervasive sensors such as wearable, implantable and ambient sensors to facilitate continuous monitoring while utilising technologies such as Natural Language Processing (NLP), Explainable Artificial Intelligence (AI). 

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Research Project Manager

Gary McManus

Philip O’Brien

Martin Tolan

Ryan McCloskey

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

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

5GMediaHUB aims to realize EC’s vision to make Europe a global leader in 5G, by boosting the testing and validation of innovative 5G media and entertainment applications.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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TransSec

eTextiles and Smart Materials applications are driving the next generation of intelligent eTextile edge devices through seamless intelligence, intelligent fabric, wearable computing and fabric artificial intelligence.



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MEPS Unit Manager

Dr. Frances Cleary

Aileen Drohan

Komal Khuwaja

Led by Walton Institute, ‘Re-Fashioning the Future’ is a workshop series supported by Creative Ireland and Waterford City &amp; County Council.

Re-Fashioning the Future

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Extended Reality technologies (Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality) are achieving mass adoption in numerous sectors including big pharma, education, manufacturing, healthcare and gaming, emerging the physical and virtual worlds. 

AR/VR Technical Lead

Ian Mills

Senior Project Manager, Mixed Reality Lab Lead