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Entries from April 2006

Official launch of Tyndall photonics lab

April 26th, 2006 No Comments

Although not one of my projects, the official launch of the Tyndall photonics lab yesterday is being covered in the media. Electric News have a decent write up of it.

Photonics is a growing field concerned with using light to transmit data through hair-thin fibres of very thin glass. A single fibre optic glass cable [...]

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Ubisense deployment in UCD

April 6th, 2006 No Comments

Business Week is carrying a press release from Ubisense, a company that develops real-time location-aware systems.
Ubisense have installed their system in the Systems Research Group in UCD, headed up by Professor Paddy Nixon.
I had an opportunity to visit Paddy recently, and got to see the system first-hand. With the system, each user carries a [...]

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