The future applications of sensor technologies across sport, energy, healthcare, enterprise and social Web were showcased today at this year’s CLARITY showcase opened by the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton.
The Applications of the Sensor Web: CLARITY 2012 Showcase Event was attended by over 150 researchers, industry professionals and state agencies.
CLARITY is a Centre for Science, Engineering and Technology supported by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation through Science Foundation Ireland.
Speaking at the launch, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton said: "CLARITY is an excellent example of the benefits of investing in Irish innovation. Through this initiative, over 120 top-class researchers in Ireland are collaborating with more than 60 companies worldwide from startups and SMEs to large multinationals. Through its growth and success, CLARITY demonstrates how scientific research can deliver a near-term positive economic impact, enabling the development of new products, services and ultimately creating more quality employment opportunities for Irish based enterprise."
"I am delighted to see that CLARITY has leveraged double the exchequer’s initial funding through SFI to be an internationally recognized centre with total funding of over €34 million to date. From the initial SFI investment CLARITY has already created 60 additional high-end jobs, three spin-out companies and now has a healthy pipeline of new companies and jobs in the making."
Over 35 demonstrations and 50 presentations were held proving how sensors can be used to gather data and provide real-time analysis in areas as diverse as athletic performance, administering healthcare, water treatment, gaming, gas monitoring, online reviews and team behaviour. CLARITY researchers were on hand to explain their research and illustrate how their technologies can be used now and in the future. One project outlined how wearable sensor technology could monitor the performance on an athlete during competition and the quick analysis of the data could impact performance levels. Another project shows how CLARITY’s Big Data capability helps to monitor water purification systems in Brazil – from Dublin.
CLARITY partners and projects include working with IBM, Microsoft Research, Disney, Samsung, the Irish Rugby Team, Dublin GAA and the Irish Womens Hockey Team and Adidas amongst a host of others which includes the health and energy sectors.
The CLARITY Centre for Sensor Web Technologies is an SFI-funded joint initiative between UCD, Dublin City University and the Tyndall National Institute. Since the initial SFI funding of €11.2 million in 2008 CLARITY now represents a total investment of more than €34 million from both national and international sources. It is also funded by Enterprise Ireland through a range of funding programmes.
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