Walton Institute
Walton Institute

Overview

WIT is the major provider of higher education in the South East region of Ireland and one of the largest Institutes of Technology's in Ireland. WIT hosts the Walton Institute, which is an internationally recognized centre of excellence for ICT research and innovation. Walton is unique in the Irish research landscape; it has a very high level inter-disciplinary view of the communications services space, linking basic science research expertise with software engineering expertise. This creates innovative prototype solutions in collaboration with mainly European partners and combining all this with the entrepreneurial business vision to exploit the range of commercial opportunities.

Founded in 1996, as the TSSG, Walton has grown into a large research centre (over 40 active projects per year, with 226 completed projects, 100 active staff and students 1996-2020). Walton creates economic impact by translating their knowledge base and innovation into leading edge products and services by continuing their… Walton Institute can offer companies access to cutting edge living lab infrastructure.

The Mixed Reality Lab is a Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality lab with with Hololens, Oculus Quests and a VR Treadmill.

Walton hosts an eTextile Lab were intelligent smart wearable garments for the detection and sensing of data can be knitted into fabric.

The Smart Agriculture IoT Testbed can be utilised for Agricultural technology investigation. This is a highly distributed set of environmental and soil sensors, IoT-enabling radio basestations, gateway servers enabling edge processing capabilities, backhauling solutions and server capacity hosting specific to the agricultural sector.

Finally the Radio Communications Testbed, hosts satellite comms, telecommunications, 5G with  SDR nodes; 0 - 6GHz frequency range. Spectrum Analyser and Vector Network Analyser; 0 - 6GHz frequency range, and a Satellite Ground Station.
. Industry Services

Walton Institute delivers innovative ICT solutions to our clients across multiple industries, including Agritech, HealthTech, Smart Cities, Communications and Energy Sectors.

We are transforming how companies operate and compete through our scientifically proven R&D knowledge and expertise that has a direct impact on improving our clients’ bottom line.

Every company must innovate to survive. If you do not have a Research, Development and Innovation (RD&I) focus Walton can help you create that focus. If you have an established RD&I function, create an an extension of this function with Walton and we will help you push the boundaries to ensure you stay ahead of the competition and disrupt the marketplace.

Walton have engineers and business development executives that can carry out an Innovation Sprint Service, which will bring people from Idea to ICT Prototype in 2 weeks. We carry out professional software engineering services, were we look at ICT Product Architecture and…. Yes. service.