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14 July 2015Cork Institute of Technology, Cork

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14 July 2015Cork Institute of Technology, Cork

Where Agri Meets Tech, Driving Research to Market

Ultan O’Raghallaigh Commercial Director, Tyndall National Institute

Where Agri. Meets Tech.

Ultan O’Raghallaigh, Commercial Director,

Tyndall National Institute

Vision:

To be the Premier Information and Communications

Technology research institute worldwide….

in generating Economic Impact through Excellence

in Research

National Institute for ICT Research and Development

Tyndall in numbers

460researchers,

engineers and support staff

200+peer-reviewed

publications each year

€32Mincome

each year

24industry

researchers-in-residence

10spin-outs

200

90

38

EU FP7 Projects

industry partners

worldwide

nationalities

120+graduate students

85%income from competitively won contracts

€200m infrastructural

investment

Industry-friendly IP agreement

rewarding project participants

Micro & nanoelectronics

Photonics

ICT Impacting Multiple Sectors in the Economy

HEALTHCARE:Longer, healthy lives

COMMUNICATIONS: Efficient reliable

FOOD, AGRI, MARINE &ENVIRONMENTSustainable

ENERGY:Protected, safe, secure

ICT for a Smarter Future

Nano Sensors On-Farm Diagnostics

Application Areas

Animal Welfare

Food Analysis

Microfluidic Component

Sensors & cell separation

Caartridgehousing Sensor

cartridge

Handhelddevice

Blood sample

Toxins detection – e.g., melamine in infant formula

Detection of residues, e.g., antibiotics

Sample 2 font 20

Water Quality

Water quality analysis, heavy metal detection

Priority pollutants , e.g., nitroaromatics

Environment

Nutrients, e.g. nitrates

Pesticides, e.g.,Neonicotinoide insecticide detection (Imidacloprid & Clothianidin)

Disease Diagnostics: IBR, BvD, PI-3 BRSV, liverfluke

Virus, antibody and vaccine simultaneously Nanosensor

s for On-farm

Diagnostics

Requirements for on-Farm Diagnostics

Current Lab Approaches On-Farm Sensing

Hours to days Rapid Response (< 15 mins)

Typical limits of detection 10 nM Accurate results: comparable to laboratory based tests (10 nM)

Typically single species measurement Multiple sensors: simultaneous detection of multiple species

Lab based assays Portable in the field sensors and instrumentation, Robust &reliable

Highly trained personnel Simple, maintenance free

€5 for each test Low-cost and disposable <€5 for simultaneous assays

US-Ireland funded R&D Partnership Program

Agri-sense : 2013 • Partners:

• Dr. Eric Vogel – Georgia Institute of Technology

• Dr. Mark Mooney - Queen's University Belfast

• Dr Alan O’Riordan - Tyndall National Institute

Scope: to develop a novel low-cost and label-free, integrated bimodal electronic biosensor for Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD)

Impact: • Developments of an inexpensive, rapid, and

“on-farm" field-deployable platform technology based sensor system for BRD disease detection is proposed.

Liverfluke

Flukeless: 2013 • Partners: • Dr. Riona Sayers- Teagasc• Dr. Prof. Grace Mulcahy – University College

Dublin• Dr. Andrew Cromie - Irish Cattle Breeding

Federation • Dr Alan O’Riordan - Tyndall National Institute

• Scope: To develop tools (diagnostics, GIS, immunologicals, genomics) for use by multiple end-users including veterinarians and farmers.Impact: • Provide a blueprint for novel on-

farm parasite control methodologies thereby allowing farmers to rapidly intervene and correct parasite-related animal health issues.

Biosensors Detection of Bacteria

in-line production

Dairy Processing Industry

Development of SPORE ANALYSIS CRITICAL CONTROL POINT (SACCP) charts for application in dairy manufacturing processes

Process assessed by Tyndall sensorsContamination avoided

No proper assessment leads to contamination

Ireland’s Harvest 2020 Strategy Agri, Food and & Environment

Challenges

maximize food production

reduce cost ensure quality

Food Harvest 2020 vision – the research challenges

• An Irish food and drink industry that is innovative, efficient, and a global leader in environmentally sustainable production

• Areas of action:– sustainable pasture-based farming and soil

management– sustainable energy requirements– new green technologies that improve water

quality– reducing carbon intensity of agricultural

activities and enhancing carbon sinks– protecting biodiversity, achieving biodiversity

targets– environmentally sustainable production

practices for seafood and aquaculture

Strategic Research Alliances

SFI Centre for Future Networks

& Communications

SFI CONNECT Research Strands

Theme A: Future Applications & Services

Cormac Sreenan, UCCUCC, TCD, TSSG, NUIM, CIT

Theme B: Open Communications

Willie Donnelly, TSSGTCD, UCC, NUIM, TSSG, CIT

Theme C: Responsive Things

Cian O Mathuna, TyndallTyndall, UCD, DIT, NUIM, UL, TSSG,

Platform ResearchTheme CResponsive Things

C.1. Smart Sensors

Peter Kennedy, Tyndall/UCC

C.2. Network Aware Intelligent Radio Access Nodes

Tom Brazil, UCD

C.3. Cooperative Wireless Communications – from Smart Sensors to Complex Nodes

Max Ammann, DIT

C. Responsive ThingsCian O MathunaTyndall

Services & Applications

Network Communication

s

Internet of Things - Supply/Value Chain

Sensor Systems

Precision Agriculture

Precision Agriculture

Food and

Beverage

Quality

Water Quality

Thank you

Questions