National Centre for Sensor Research NCSR

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National Centre for Sensor Research (NCSR)

• Over 250 f/t researchers and support staff
• 23 affiliated faculty
• Investments and income since 1999 now approaching
  100 million
• 1500 m2 well-equipped specialist lab space and
  offices
• Phase II expansion completed June 2008 (1300 m2)

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CLARITY SFI CSET

• 5-year, 16.4 million research program funded by
  SFI and industry partners to develop next
  generation Sensor Web Technologies with
  significant environmental focus
• Partnership involving UCD, DCU, TNI MI, EPA
• www.clarity-centre.org/

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CLARITY from molecular materials to functioning
systems
Polymer Pumps, valves, detectors
Energy Scavenging
To functioning sub-units
From molecular materials
To Functioning Systems
Environment and Health
Surfaces and Sensors
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Beaufort Projects at NCSR (Marine Institute)

• Microfluidics Prof. Dermot Diamond, Postdoc Dr.
  Yuiya Shakalisava
• Development of microfluidic device for
  microbiological analysis of water

• Biofouling Dr. Fiona Regan, Postgrad Timothy
  OSullivan
• Investigation of microbial growth on surfaces
  combating bio-fouling of sensors
• and environmental platform

• Separations Dr. Mirek Macka, Prof. Brett Paul,
  Postgrad Aine Moyna
• Microfluidic chip based minituarised analytical
  devices for use in marine monitoring

• Video Sensing Prof. A. Smeaton, Dr. N. OConnor,
  Postgrad Edel OConnor
• Visual sensing of environmental conditions

• Biorecognition Prof. R. OKennedy, Postgrad
  Edwina Stack
• Project development of genetically engineered
  highly stable and specific biorecognition ligands
  
• for detection of marine contaminants

• Transduction Dr. C. McDonagh, Prof. B. MacCraith
• Bacterial sensing based on biochip
  fluoroimmunoassay

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Environmental Sensing (cont)

• Chair in Environmental Sensing (Marine Institute)
• National Coordinator (Environmental Sensing and
  Marine Technologies)
• IBM Funded research fellow (CLARITY)
  distributed sensing inc. satellite based
  approaches
• Enterprise Ireland Projects e.g. Episensor
  (Limerick)
• FP7 Marie Curie Training Network (Questor)

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SmartBay Building National Research Capability
and competitiveness

• Basic elements
• Infrastructure (capital)
• Projects (people)
• An effective process to enable projects to access
  and use infrastructure
• A mechanism to harvest and exploit research
  outputs

SmartBay will be a key enabling infrastructure
for environmental researchers, and particularly
(but not restricted to) for emerging distributed
sensing technologies linked to communications