Commercially Focused Research

WIT Faculty, staff and students are actively engaged in a broad array of Research & Development activities many of which have opportunities for commercial development, including:

The Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG) conducts research and development activities in the areas such as:

• Multimedia/Marketing – Innovate concepts and services drawing on the ever increasing capabilities of digital networks, both mobile and fixed, to address needs and opportunities in the publishing, media, entertainment and marketing industries.
• Cloud Computing  – Exploiting computing power dispersed across a network in a flexible manner, ‘virtual’ resources can be configured to changing needs, radically altering the economics, reliability and capacity of computing and storage resources.
• Telecommunications/Mobile Services – Intelligent network provisioning and dynamic configuration are just two of the areas being pursued to enable large scale telecommunication networks to continue to grow in capability, scale, security and reliability.

Some technologies on offer at TSSG are as follows:

• Infrastructure Context Enabler
• Public transport Advisor
• Yellow Pages

The Optics Research Group (ORG) commercially orientated research in the areas of Fibre Bragg Grating based sensor systems, and in the area of optical fibre components, has already resulted in numerous patent pending inventions:

• Taking a systematic approach to the application of Fibre Bragg grating arrays has resulted in novel patented solutions in the areas of sensing elements, PMD/PDG minimisation, signal processing and laser technology.
• Physically manipulating the form and characteristics of optical fibre elements and combining them with other innovative elements, Novel Optical Fibre devices in-have been created to replace the functionality of complex ‘bulk optics’ systems with higher performance, enhanced relaibility and reduced cost

 Some technologies on offer at the Optics Research Group are as follows:

• Optical Sensor Interrogation
• Dispersion and Optical Thickness Multi-Interferometer Interrogation

The Pharmaceutical & Molecular Biotechnology Research Centre (PMBRC) conducts research in the areas of novel drug delivery technologies, pre-formulation and materials characterization,  chromatography and separation science, novel process and sensor technologies and molecular biotechnology.  With fully equipped, state-of-the-art laboratory facilities on the WIT campus, the centre is involved in collaborative projects with industry ranging from large-scale research projects to short term feasibility studies and contract analysis.

The South East Applied Materials (SEAM) Centre  utilises state of the art tools such as X-Ray micro-tomography and Microwave processing and techniques including Finite Element Analysis and Computational Fluid Dynamics to address a wide variety of challenges and opportunities related to materials across a broad range of industries and applications.

If you have any queries or require more information on any of the above Commercialisation opportunities please contact the Technology Transfer Office.