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Ireland is home to a new testbed initiative called“ Pervasive Nation”, an island-wide infrastructure dedicated to Internet of Things. The Science Foundation Ireland funded CONNECT Centre for Future Networks and Communications led by Prof Linda Doyle is championing Pervasive Nation which will span urban, suburban and rural Ireland, supporting research and commercial Internet of Things activities and will be the first of its kind anywhere in the world.
www. connectcentre. ie
Prof Dermot Diamond from Dublin City University along with the Environmental Protection Agency and researchers from the Insight Centre for Data Analytics have developed in-situ sensors for measuring water quality, in particular nitrates and phosphates. These pollutants trigger the growth of algal blooms which results in oxygen depletion from the water resulting in fish kills; ultimately the water becomes undrinkable. The team has been collaborating closely with TE Laboratories( Tullow, Co. Carlow) through several EU projects and a targeted project with the Science Foundation Ireland Insight Centre to develop innovative technologies that will dramatically improve the quality and performance of in-situ remote sensing of pollutants in water bodies. Prototype devices developed by the joint Insight-TE Laboratories team has been selected for the final stage in a global competition organised by the US-based Alliance for Coastal Technologies to assess the best approaches to delivering robust solutions for in-situ sensing of nutrient levels.
www. insight-centre. org