Industry open day 2014

The TEC Gateweay Industry open day held 20/6 was a great success, packed with happy visitors and just 1 seat remaining empty. The mix of fast paced and varied information, all relevant to anyone considering technology innovation was appreciated by all attendees. Thanks to Oxymem, SensiPass and Enterprise Ireland for the high quality & relevant [...]

WSSIC present at Enterprise Ireland

The ‘Water Systems and Services Innovation Centre‘ (WSSIC) based in the Nimbus Centre, CIT showcased their achievements and plans at Enterprise Ireland last Wednesday. CIT has a powerful water-resource combination which WSSIC is managing to great effect. The event described Ireland’s water research capability to companies active in the water sector. Researchers from Irish Universities [...]

Harvesting the fruit of a Spanish mission

A Nimbus Centre delegation returned from a very successful outreach mission to Spain recently. The delegation comprised the TEC Gateway Manager, Nimbus Centre Water Co-ordinator and technical Engineering staff. Barcelona City council hosted a meeting where the Nimbus delegation represented the combined interests of CIT and IERC, and were supported by Cork City council and [...]

Innovation week March 10-14th, CIT

Entrepreneurship and Innovation take centre stage with a week-long series of events taking place at Cork Institute of Technology (CIT), across its five campus locations. Innovation Week 2014 will take place from Monday 10th to Friday 14th March with several interesting events in the Nimbus centre. For details please visit Innovation week The Nimbus Centre [...]

Mallow Systems Innovation Centre submitted for award

The Mallow Systems Innovation Centre was submitted for the 2014 Community and Council awards by Mallow Town Council recently, with a resulting gala dinner in Dublin on 25/1/14. This event was attended by staff from the Mallow Systems Innovation Centre and community and Council representatives countrywide. Many excellent connections were developed over the course of [...]

Irish Examiner article on eGo

The Nimbus Centre’s eGo project featured on the front page of the Irish Examiner on Dec 31st. The online version is here. Read more about the project and watch the video here. ‘eGo’TM technology, co-developed in CIT’s Nimbus Centre, uses your body to transmit authentication to your computer, doors or phone, removing the requirement to [...]

Applying self-organisation and fault detection to the management and control of wireless sensor networks in building automation applications

International Innovation magazine interviewed Dr. Dirk Pesch regarding the application of self-organisation and fault detection to the management and control of wireless sensor networks in building automation applications. The full article may be found here International Innovation Coordinated by the Cork Institute of Technology, the FP7 SCUBA project is researching a novel architecture to apply [...]