Engineering
Alpha Wireless, Fergal Lawlor www.alphawireless.ie
Alpha Wireless designs and manufactures high quality innovative base station antennas for the wireless markets. The company’s products include a range of competitively priced variable and fixed tilt antennas covering the GSM, UMTS, WiMAX and WiFi bands. These antennas have superior performance and unrivalled pattern control which are designed to be aesthetically pleasing thus reducing visual impact while still maintaining a durable construction that can withstand the challenging environmental conditions.
BlueBridge Technologies, Garret Coady www.bluebridgetechnologies.com
Operating in the medical device, automotive and aerospace sectors, BlueBridge Technologies is a product development engineering firm. The company is also working as an outsourced R&D partner for a diverse range of products for companies from BMW to Tyco Healthcare.
Centron Instruments, Denis Gleeson www.centroninstruments.com
Centron Instruments design and manufacture innovative test equipment for the electronics test and measurement market.
European Intelligent Buildings, Stephen Shannon www.eib.ie
European Intelligent Buildings provides building developers with a single cable control technology for building services management. The company provides clients with convenient intelligent building functions to reduce energy consumption and provides building owners with data on their building energy efficiency.
Ikon Semiconductor Ltd, Conor McAuliffe
Ikon Semiconductor is a Fabless semiconductor company developing innovative highly integrated LED driver solutions for the rapidly growing LED lighting market. Driven by increasing concerns over energy consumption and the environmental impact of greenhouse gases, legislation is being introduced worldwide to phase-out the inefficient incandescent light bulb, and replace it with low-energy alternatives. LED (Light Emitting Diode) technology is the fastest growing, low-energy, lighting technology. Our chips reside inside the LED bulb, and perform the function of converting the mains AC voltage into the precise DC current required to drive LED’s, however our proprietary technology results in a design which is simpler, smaller and lower cost that competing solutions.
IRELTEX, James Jamieson www.ireltex.com
Ireltex provide an internationally traded service to the 200mm semi conductor industry. The products and services available are as follows:
- Machine installs/de-installs
- Onsite customer training
- Service contracts
- Technical support
- Process development.
IRLCA, Desmond Farrell www.irlca.com
The company will develop, produce and market a range of high end automation peripheral equipment for the commercial and residential sectors. In the commercial sector Irlca's products will be used to enhance the health and safety of the workplace environment and facilitate the reduction in carbon footprint by limiting power consumption. In the residential sector, the high end automation peripheral equipment will provide users of smart home technologies with sophisticated control functionality and product design. Irlca will initially develop, produce and market a smart socket for global distribution. Irlca will then develop a suite of related products.
mSemicon Teo, Ciarán O Bréartúin. www.msemicon.com
mSemicon is a leader in the development of customised, advanced electronics solutions for the automation, medical device, communications, consumer, audio and energy industries.
PAL, Colin Lawlor
Baby Safe’s aim is to provide every mother, father, guardian and minder with a reliable solution to child safety. Applying new uses to RFID and GPS technologies the company will create a cost effective, highly secure method of child monitoring. The application will have various uses from preventing children straying in crowded areas, e.g. shopping centres, beaches, zoos, to knowing the location of child if allowed to play unsupervised.
Tochar Technology, Derek Harnett www.tochar.com
Tochar Technology is designing an innovative range of products to help consumers save energy in the home. Tochar’s first product, the ECO Home Manager, focuses on user friendly control systems which can significantly reduce costs of home and water heating, where 80% of the typical energy bill is spent.
