TSSG - Telecommunications Software & Systems Group

FeedHenry Competiton Winner for Mobilize 2010!

2010-09-02T10:16:27Z

GigaOM today announced the winners of Mobilize 2010 LaunchPad, a high-profile competition that recognizes the 10 most promising mobile start-ups. With a huge body of entries to search from, just 10 were chosen as winners based on their innovative business models. The LaunchPad winners will present their companies on stage at Mobilize 2010, the largest and most influential mobile industry conference, set to take place September 30th at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. Read the full article here

WIT researchers to lead €15.8m EU SOCIETIES project

2010-08-27T12:10:33Z

Researchers at Waterford Institute of Technology’s Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG) have been awarded the leadership of SOCIETIES – a €15.8m EU project aiming to revolutionise how businesses work and how emergency services respond in the face of disaster. Read full article featured in SILICON REPUBLIC

Technology comes to the rescue

2010-08-27T09:42:30Z

A team of researchers in Waterford Institute of Technology’s TSSG (Telecommunications Software and Systems Group) has been awarded the leadership of SOCIETIES a €15.8 million EU project that may revolutionise how emergency services respond in the wake of a disaster. According to Kevin Doolin, Head of Pervasive Communications Services in TSSG, the project aims to develop new and powerful ways that organisations such as emergency services, individuals and businesses can work, communicate, and socialise. “Essentially, what we are looking at is ways to combine social networking concepts with “pervasive technology”. People interact with computers in a multitude of ways on a daily basis without even realising it. Wireless technology brought computing from desktops to all aspects of life through smartphones, laptops, wearable computers and sensors. Pervasive devices can be put in almost any type of object from cars and appliances to clothing. This technology is effortless, unobtrusive, intuitive, portable and always available. It has also become “smart”; for example if you are in a “smart office” and want to print from your mobile device, it will automatically locate and connect to the nearest printer. “Advances in wireless technology mean that online information and services can be accessed and synchronised remotely. For example, electronic tags for toll booths, cars that adjust their settings because they recognise a driver’s key; traffic lights that monitor and respond to flows, or phones that provide information based on a users’ location. Until now, pervasive systems have focussed on individuals but the SOCIETIES project will investigate ways to make them work with communities of multiple users. Socialising and interaction are key aspects of life. When coupled with technology they have successfully allowed people to communicate and collaborate in popular ways from social networking (Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn) to texting and instant messaging to online gaming. “The SOCIETIES project sees potential for social networking to provide greater sharing of information and improve decision-making for those managing responses to natural disasters. We hope to build on this technology to create integrated Community Smart Spaces (CSS), where people from different groups can access and share a range of useful data. We believe it could benefit emergency services in disaster management teams to manage, respond to, and recover from major catastrophic events more efficiently. “The flooding and prolonged snow falls of Winter 2009/10 demonstrated how Ireland could benefit from improved civil responses. Other major natural disasters such as the tsunami in Asia, Hurricane Katrina or the earthquake in Haiti resulted in massive damage to roads, airports, railroads, hospitals, fire and police protection, water and other necessities. In the aftermath, the biggest issue was the speed of rescue and relief operations. This highlights the problems responders and victims faced in accessing vital resources such as emergency communications, essential supplies and equipment. Part of the SOCIETIES project involves working with civil protection experts across the EU to ensure that all trials are realistic. “Once complete, we anticipate that CSS technology will be able to link isolated smart spaces/users and help specialists to assess disaster areas and quickly share key details, such as location maps, ensuring the speedy mobilisation of response teams. “The CSSs for individual response teams, such as field hospitals or search and rescue teams, will automatically update information according to priority. It will do this by analysing the assigned roles, duties, activities and the location of users. We hope that many lives can be saved thanks to the improved accuracy in communications which will increase efficiency, enhance strategic decision making and reduce risks. “For example, the first people on the scene after a natural or mad-made disaster are local emergency organisations such as the fire brigade, ambulance or police. Using SOCIETIES technology, a CSS would establish a group to quickly share critical information such as danger spots, photographs, trapped victims and so on. Depending on how the situation escalates, higher level groups could join the CSS (e.g regional or national authorities, the army or reserve staff) to monitor the situation and take control at a regional or national level,” he said. Welcoming the funding award as an endorsement of TSSG’s work, Dr Willie Donnelly, director of TSSG and research director, Waterford Institute of Technology, said: “This funding is especially important at a time of growing pressure on public sector research funding in Ireland as a result of the current economic situation. One of the primary requirements for receiving funding is that the research must have ‘European added value’, which we are achieving by leading this project with 15 partners across the EU. The award of this funding, following a competitive process, by TSSG researchers is testament to their track record, expertise and creativity.” Commencing in October 2010, the project is due to run for three and a half years. The funding enables TSSG to collaborate with and draw on the expertise of leading European partners from the private sector such as Intel, NEC, IBM, LAKE Communications (part of the Mitel group), Telecom Italia, and Portugal Telecom Inovação, as well as a number of highly regarded research institutions . TSSG researchers are among Ireland’s leading telecommunications and software engineering experts whose work sees them partner with academic and global industry leaders. TSSG conducts research in telecommunications network management and mobile services. TSSG is recognised as one of the top ten European institutes (industry or academic) driving the specification of the Future Internet. READ full feature Article in the IRISH TIMES

PERSIST

2010-08-19T15:02:53Z

Project Overview PERsonal Self-Improving SmarT-space provides a middleware framework for the provision and operation of a Personal Smart Space (PSS). The vision of PERSIST is of a Personal Smart Space, which is associated with the portable devices carried by the user and which moves around with him/her, providing context-aware pervasiveness to the user at all times and places. The Personal Smart Space will cater for the needs of users, adapting to their preferences and learning new ones as these arise. PERSIST is funded by the FP7 Programme. The PERSIST project has been running since April 2008, and will be completed 2010. For more information contact kdoolin@tssg.org. Project Implementation Current trends in the design of pervasive systems have concentrated on the problem of isolated smart spaces (such as smart homes) via a fixed infrastructure. This is likely to lead to the evolution of islands of pervasiveness separated by voids in which there is no support for pervasiveness. The objective of PERSIST is to develop Personal Smart Spaces that provide a minimum set of functionalities which can be extended and enhanced as users encounter other smart spaces during their everyday activities. They will be capable of learning and reasoning about users, their intentions, preferences and context. They will be endowed with pro-active behaviours, which enable them to share context information with neighbouring Personal Smart Spaces, resolve conflicts between the preferences of multiple users, make recommendations and act upon them, prioritise, share and balance limited resources between users, services and devices, reason about trustworthiness to protect privacy and be sufficiently fault-tolerant to guarantee their own robustness and dependability. To this end the PERSIST project has developed an architecture and framework for the development of Personal Smart-space applications. The architecture consists of five different layers, each addressing a well defined part of the PSS functionality. The names and purpose of these layers are presented below. Layer 1 – Devices. The PSS definition suggests that a single PSS can span across many different devices. Depending on their processing and networking capabilities, these devices may either implement the PSS stack or part of it, or simply interact with the rest of the PSS framework. Layer 2 - System Run-Time Environment. The System Run-Time layer serves as an abstraction layer between the underlying device operating system and the PSS software in order to achieve as much platform independence as possible. Essentially, this layer is what makes a device PSS-capable. Hence, employing an "off-the-shelf" implementation of a virtual machine run-time will offer PSS portability over a wide range of software and hardware platforms. Layer 3 - Overlay Network Management. The Overlay Network Management layer provides the PSS architecture with a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) management and communication layer. The services within this layer will provide functionality for PSS peer group management, peer discovery and message routing between peer networks. Layer 4 - Service Run-Time Environment. The Service Run-Time Environment layer provides a container for the PSS services. It supports service life cycle management features and provides a service registry, as well as, a device registry. Moreover, it allows for service management in a distributed fashion among multiple devices within the same PSS. Layer 5 - PSS Framework. The PSS Framework layer is the core of the PSS architecture. Its functions include discovering and composing PSS and 3rd party services, as well as, managing context data and user preferences. Moreover, the PSS Framework layer supports automatic learning of preferences and inference of user intentions. This information, together with data from recommender systems, enables the proactive behaviour of the PSS platform. Grouping of context data and preferences, as well as, conflict resolution are also provided by the PSS Framework layer. Project Achievement Demonstration Testbed setup and organisation activities are ongoing, but no demo is currently available. The project source code is available via a Apache Public licence on the Sourceforge site https://sourceforge.net/projects/psmartspace/ Non-referreed academic papers 19 papers have been presented on behalf of PERSIST, of which 7 have involved TSSG. These are as follows: [1] M. Rockl, K. Frank, G. Hermann, and M. Vera, "Knowledge Representation and Inference in Context-Aware Computing Environments", 2nd International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM 2008), Valencia, Spain, September - October 2008. [2] K. Frank, M. Rockl, and P. Robertson, "The Bayeslet Concept for modular Context Inference", 2nd International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM 2008), Valencia, Spain, September - October 2008. [3] M. Crotty, N. Taylor, H. Williams, K. Frank, I. Roussaki, and M. Roddy, "A Pervasive Environment Based on Personal Self-Improving Smart Spaces", Workshop on Architectures and Platforms for AmI at the European Conference on Ambient Intelligence 2008 (AmI 08), Nürnberg, Germany, November 2008. [4] I. Roussaki, N. Liampotis, N. Kalatzis, K. Frank, and P. Hayden, "How to make Personal Smart Spaces Context-aware", PERSIST Workshop on Intelligent Pervasive Environments (AISB 2009), Edinburgh, Scotland, April 2009. [5] K. Frank, P. Robertson, S. McBurney, N. Kalatzis, I. Roussaki, and M. Marengo, "A Hybrid Preference Learning and Context Refinement Architecture PERSIST Workshop on Intelligent Pervasive Environments (AISB 2009), Edinburgh, Scotland, April 2009. [6] C. Venezia, N. Taylor, H. Williams, K. Doolin, and I. Roussaki, "Novel Pervasive Computing Services experienced through Personal Smart Spaces", International Workshop on Data Management in Ad Hoc and Pervasive Computing in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2009), Taipei, Taiwan, May 2009. [7] K. Frank, N. Kalatzis, I. Roussaki, and N. Liampotis, "Challenges for Context Management Systems imposed by Context Inference", 6th International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS 2009), Barcelona, Spain, June 2009. Events The project has been presented at 8 public events, including 3 public workshops. The full list is as follows: 1. Daidalos public workshop 2008 (Heidelberg, Germany, September 2008) 2. NEM Summit 2008 (St Malo, France, October 2008) 3. Irish Future Internet Forum (Dublin, Ireland, October 2008) 4. Lifting the Lid Technology Showcase for SMEs (Edinburgh, UK, November 2008) 5. Future of Internet Assembly (Madrid, Spain, December 2009) 6. AmI and IRIS event (Ljubljana, Slovenia, March 2009) 7. PERSIST workshop in AISB 09 (Edinburgh, UK, April 2009). 8. Joint PERSIST/C-Cast Workshop (ICT 2010, Florence, Italy, 2010).

Contact Details

TSSG Project Manager: Kevin Doolin

PERSIST website: http://www.ict-persist.eu/

TSSG PERSIST blog: http://persist.tssg.org

WIT to benefit from 2.5m in Research Funding

2010-07-29T14:23:34Z

WIT is to benefit from a €2.5m funding award under Cycle 5 of the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI) it was announced last week. Launching PRTLI Cycle 5 alongside the Taoiseach, the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O'Keeffe TD, said the five-year plan - the largest investment in research in the history of the State - would help to create ‘smart’ jobs and make Ireland Europe's innovation hub. While the largest part of the funding announced by Minister O’Keeffe for all third level institutions is for capital projects like buildings, the funds for WIT are exclusively provided for the current funding of research and are strategically important for the economic development of the region. The funding is for two specific projects – the Eco-Innovation Research Exploration project will receive €1.593m while the Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) in WIT will benefit by €896k under the Telecommunications Graduate Initiative. The Eco-Innovation Research Exploration project supports the government’s economic policy of positioning Ireland at the heart of the green industry. The project will drive the development of a research and innovation ecosystem at WIT capable of creating a critical mass of sustainable green industries nationally and regionally. The Telecommunications Graduate Initiative will support the creation of an international graduate school at WIT which will leverage TSSG world class research and industry partnerships to deliver graduates who will become industry leaders for the ICT industry and drivers of the smart economy “The award is of strategic importance to the Institute and will support the continued development of WIT as a leader in research and innovation. Building on the major research activities at the institute its long term impact will be on the economic development of the South-East creating sustainable high value employment” said Dr Willie Donnelly, Head of Research at WIT. The latest allocation of funding confirms WIT’s role as one of the leading European research institutes and further endorses its work.

Junior Operations Engineer (6 Month Internship)

2010-07-23T15:52:51Z

This opportunity will involve working as part of an operations team that is responsible for the delivery of variety of services to an enterprise cloud platform as well as a number of customers and staff oriented online services. Suitable candidates should have a cursory programming background with practical expertise in a Unix (Linux) operating system. Other desirable criteria include: • Good understanding of networking essentials (e.g. TCP/IP, DNS) • Knowledge of scripting languages (e.g. Bash, Python, Perl) and SQL database systems • Knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML, XML and JSON • Be competent in a Unix command-line environment • Knowledge of Agile development processes Day-to-day duties in this role may include: • Working within a team under the supervision of the operations manager • Research and configuration of online services such as user forums, knowledge bases, WIKIs, blogs • Development of automated test tools using scripting languages • Work closely with the quality assurance team to ensure software process adherence • Design and develop software components to standard interfaces • Work with external partners in a professional manner • Be able to describe and explain computer science concepts in everyday language]]> To apply for this position please e-mail a CV to James Mernin (jmernin@tssg.org) before 5pm on 11th August 2010.

EU awards TSSG €8.6m for ‘Future Internet’ research

2010-07-05T13:08:24Z

The Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) at Waterford Institute of Technology will lead five research projects with a total value of over €21.5m and will participate in a further three projects worth over €17m arising from the fifth call of FP7, the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme for Research. This directly translates to a total of €3.8m research funding secured for the group in Waterford in this call alone - taking the total FP7 funding received to date by TSSG to €8.6m. The latest funded projects focus on improving and shaping the ‘Future Internet’; investigating information and communications technology (ICT) security; social networking and systems architecture. Drawing on the expertise of European industry partners in the ICT sector such as NEC; IBM; Thales Group; ATOS Origin; SAP and Lake Communications will enable TSSG to turn a wealth of research knowledge into value products and services that benefit the Irish economy and support economic recovery. The latest allocation of EU funding will facilitate the creation of new and innovative industries and applications to be applied in Ireland and overseas. The work involved secures TSSG’s role as one of the leading European research institutes shaping the ‘Future Internet’. The funding is especially important at a time of growing pressure on public sector research funding in Ireland as a result of the current economic climate. Welcoming the funding as a further endorsement of the group’s work, Dr Willie Donnelly, director, TSSG and research director, Waterford Institute of Technology, said: “One of the primary requirements for FP7 funding are that the research activity must have ‘European added value’. The securing through a competitive process by TSSG researchers of large-scale European research investment is testament to their proven track record, expertise and ingenuity. “Ireland’s economic recovery and future sustainable economic growth requires continued investment in world-class research. The application of technology and the exploitation of research knowledge are two key drivers for Ireland’s economic growth and competitiveness,” Dr Donnelly continued. “TSSG continues to build and strengthen strategic partnerships with major international telecoms companies in research, developing and deploying improved infrastructure, smarter services and applications for their customers. Positioning TSSG at the forefront of Irish and European research, the latest round of eight research projects will enable further development around ICT security, dependability and trustworthiness in an increasingly digitised society. Other research will provide insight to how we can radically improve the Future Internet by merging ‘social’ and ‘pervasive’ computing. “In an environment of decreasing national funds this latest allocation of funding will secure 150 high value research positions at the TSSG, allowing them to continue ongoing activity that impacts in society and the marketplace in this country and overseas. There is a tremendous multiplier effect from this type of core funding for research and the overall value of the EU support to ‘Ireland Inc’ will be increased substantially by matching investment by our private sector partners and positive spin-offs from the research outputs.” Based at Waterford Institute of Technology’s West Campus at Carriganore, TSSG has created a cluster of high potential start-ups based on its research outcomes, directly generating more than 210 skilled jobs in the southeast. TSSG researchers are among the leading telecommunications and software engineering experts in the country and their work sees them partner with academic and global industry leaders. The group conducts research in telecommunications network management and mobile services. It is recognised as one of the top 10 European institutes (industry or academic) driving the specification of the Future Internet. See article Business World here ENDS – July 2, 2010.

Q&A with Barry Downes (TSSG)

2010-06-28T14:30:45Z

Q&A with Barry Downes (TSSG) 28-06-2010 by ElectricNews.net view http://www.enn.ie/story/show/10125845 Barry Downes has helped create 11 startups in just five years. We asked him to tell us the secret to creating a successful startup in Ireland. Barry Downes is the Executive Director of the Innovation and Commercial division of the TSSG and Executive Director of the Centre for Converged Services (3CS). His startup successes include FeedHenry and Zolkc. Q: What do you consider the main ingredient for creating a winning company? A: The key element that all startups must have is to create value for the customer. The more value a company can create, the better chance it will have of surviving. At the Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) we undertake research and development, which give us ideas and inspiration to create new companies, and the starting point is always the end customer. We always ask the question, how is this technology going to create value for customers in the marketplace? It’s a process of constantly searching for where a company can add the most value. Then of course, you need great people and great back up to start on the road of making a great business. Q: Should Irish entrepreneurs wait for the recession to end before beginning a startup? A: No, the environment for creating startups in Ireland at the moment is rich. Despite the recession, there’s a wealth of advice, resources and funding an entrepreneur can tap into across the country. There’s an abundance of people that companies can work with on a research and development basis with great support by many organisations including Enterprise Ireland. My advice to anyone starting a company in Ireland would be: 1. First, make contact with Enterprise Ireland and review your concept with them. Enterprise Ireland development advisors can really help entrepreneurs. 2. Next, look at what resources are available in third-level organisations. There are world-renowned experts on most technologies in universities and research centres here in Ireland. 3. It’s also important to understand the market and customers. Businesses that create real value for customers have a higher success rate. 4. For financing, make contact with organisations such as HBan and Enterprise Ireland. They can advise on where to get funding and who to trade with, both in Ireland and abroad. Q: What do you think is the "key quality" that every entrepreneur needs? A: Being part of a startup involves lots of long days and long nights so you have to have a passion for what you are doing. It’s a tough road and a long journey so you’ve got to love what you are doing to have commitment. You have to be passionate about the product and how it will contribute to your customer. Of course, in a recessionary environment, you have to be resilient as well. In early startup phases, you have to be able to work with limited resources and certainly limited financial resources. But, if you love the idea of creating new products and services that will have a lasting benefit for people, it will take you through the hard times. For me, I get great satisfaction when I see people using the products and services I’ve helped create. Q: What’s your personal motivation? A: I've always loved technology. I love what it can do to help people. Whether it helps individuals communicate more effectively or whether telecoms services can create utilities for people. Services like Zolkc (www.zolkc.com) provide an e-tourism solution that gives visitors to historical locations content and images on a handheld device via GPS positioning. I love seeing how unique technologies such as these solve problems for customers and that’s why I like being in the technology business. But why startups? I personally believe that startups create economic growth in the economy. Tech startups can create high value growth in any part of Ireland. My motivation also comes from the economic development aspect. I want to see Ireland having the best companies in the world. Taking advanced research and building on this is a great way to create high tech, high growth Irish companies that have a powerful impact on Irish society and beyond. Q: What’s up next for you? A: I would love to continue working with advanced researchers and individuals to create the next wave of innovative technology companies coming out of Ireland. My goal is to create a cluster of companies that will help add to the high tech reputation of Waterford, the Southeast region and beyond. A part of this is to attract more entrepreneurs to the area to accomplish more research and development. Another part is to cooperate with other organisations in Ireland and Europe and leverage each other’s skills. The ultimate goal is to create an environment that makes it easier to create startups that will make Ireland a truly international high-tech hotbed.

Summer Internships x 2

2010-06-18T14:49:49Z

The Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) at the Waterford Institute of Technology is offering the following internships to recently graduated students: Opening 1 – Summer Internship – Web Application Developer This opportunity will involve working as a developer on innovative mobile web applications. Suitable candidates should have a strong programming background with expertise in JavaScript, HTML and CSS also preferable. Other desirable criteria include: • Good understanding of user interface design • Competent in the use of a software IDE • Cursory knowledge of Java, XML, JSON and/or scripting languages (e.g. Bash, Python, Perl) • Working knowledge of the Unix operating system • Knowledge of SQL database systems • Knowledge of Agile development processes Day-to-day duties in this role may include: • Working within a team under the supervision of the project manager to deliver innovative web applications using an online IDE • Develop test code where appropriate • Work closely with the quality assurance team to ensure software process adherence • Design and develop software components to standard interfaces • Work with external partners in a professional manner • Be able to describe and explain computer science concepts in everyday language Opening 2 – Summer Internship - Junior Operations Engineer This opportunity will involve working as part of an operations team that is responsible for the delivery of variety of services to an enterprise cloud platform as well as a number of customers and staff oriented online services. Suitable candidates should have a cursory programming background with practical expertise in a Unix (Linux) operating system. Other desirable criteria include: • Good understanding of networking essentials (e.g. TCP/IP, DNS) • Knowledge of scripting languages (e.g. Bash, Python, Perl) and SQL database systems • Knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML, XML and JSON • Be competent in a Unix command-line environment • Knowledge of Agile development processes Day-to-day duties in this role may include: • Working within a team under the supervision of the operations manager • Research and configuration of online services such as user forums, knowledge bases, WIKIs, blogs • Development of automated test tools using scripting languages • Work closely with the quality assurance team to ensure software process adherence • Design and develop software components to standard interfaces • Work with external partners in a professional manner • Be able to describe and explain computer science concepts in everyday language To apply for any of these positions please e-mail a CV to Brian Power (bpower@tssg.org) before 5pm on 7th July 2010. ]]> About the TSSG The Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) is one of the leading Information Communications Technologies (ICT) research centres in Europe. Based in Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), the research-taking place in the TSSG is re-defining the Future Internet and its services, whether on a PC, a laptop or a mobile phone. The TSSG is funded by HEA and SFI funds in Ireland. It has secured the largest share of EU FP7 funding in Ireland, and a large share of Enterprise Ireland’s (EI’s) commercialisation funds for ICT. The TSSG research ethos is to build links between academic and industrial research through the creation of a balanced portfolio of activity in: Basic Research, Applied Research and Commercial activity. Currently the TSSG is active in around 45 research projects, with budgets ranging from €100k to €3.5M and totalling over €60 Million from 1996-2010. The TSSG has been directly involved in the process of creating 14 spin-out and spin-in companies in this period, contributing directly over 60 new jobs to the region externally. The TSSG itself has 160 staff and a 14-year track record in telecommunications management, with Dr Willie Donnelly, Director of the TSSG, as the principal investigator.

First place for Ireland at Ericsson Application Awards

2010-06-17T09:00:00Z

TSSG Team Win with ‘Caller Profiler’ App

See PDF file of press release.

See also Video Entry for the competition.

See also Competition Website listing other finalists.

TSSG on the panel at the first WIP Jam

2010-06-04T15:26:03Z

The first WIP (Wireless Industry Partnership) Jam will be co- hosted in Messe Berlin, June 9th. The event will bring together leading industry experts including Intel, LinuxTag and Get Jar. The event connects developers to information, resources and people, with exhibitions and discussions covering a range of topics around ‘mobile business solutions’, with a core focus on Mobile Profits. The topics for discussion include: • Mobile Enterprise - Mobilizing your customers and your employees • Redefining Mobility - Building applications for netbooks and tablets • App Store Placement Optimization - Tips and tricks • Business Models - Making money from mobile software? • Cross Platform Development - Platform choices & mobile dev tools • Augmented Reality - Adding an edge to your business Barry Downes, TSSG/3CS Executive Director for Innovation and Commercialisation has been selected for a panel discussion titled, ‘Who lives in the mobile cloud’? Opinions are slowly converging to say that the future of mobile apps is in the cloud, mainly for cost saving, code and content re-use or flexibility reasons. While the goal is clear the means are still vague that will maintain a good user experience despite increasingly busy data networks and security concerns. The panel discussion will look into the how and when of the mobile cloud, touching on solutions, providers and challenges of going alone or accompanied. The WIP Jam event is being held on June 9th 2010 at Messe Berlin. Event Registration Download full Agenda

TSSG's PERSIST project organises joint workshop at the Future Network and Mobile Summit

2010-06-03T00:06:36Z

Workshop on Context-awareness in Smart Environments The ubiquity of mobile devices and proliferation of wireless networks will allow everyone permanent access to the Internet at all times and all places. The increased computational power of these devices has the potential to empower people to generate their own applications for innovative social and cognitive activities in any situation and anywhere. This wireless connection is not limited to user devices, almost any artefact from clothing to buildings can be connected and collaborate. Furthermore new sensor technologies and wireless sensor networks provide environmental intelligence and the capability to sense, reason and actuate. This leads to the exciting vision of the interconnection of artefacts embedded in our real environment, forming a society of "intelligent things" and "smart spaces". The workshop discusses the main concepts and role that context-awareness and context aware systems will play in this vision and the significance for future networks and future Internet. This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners in academia and industry to share recent results on context-awareness, as well as to foster collaboration and coordination in future EU research efforts. This workshop is being jointly organised by C-CAST, PERSIST and SENSEI, FP7 projects. Workshop Agenda Future Network and Mobile Summit

TSSG receive an INSPIRE Fellowship

2010-05-31T17:29:07Z

Dr Alan Davy from the Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG) has been selected by the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology (IRCSET) to receive an INSPIRE Fellowship which is co-funded by IRCSET and FP7, the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. Read the full story here Dr. Alan Davy.

TSSG host the LTE+ Advanced Workshop

2010-05-31T16:54:06Z

More than 100 delegates attended the first Workshop on Opportunities for LTE Advanced Cellular Systems or LTE+ in Ireland this week, which was held at the Institute of Bankers in Dublin. The Long Term Evolution Advanced Cellular Systems event brought together industry and academia to explore the economic opportunities for Ireland in developing and deploying next generation of mobile systems. Read the full story here Pictured at the LTE+ Advanced Workshop held at the Institute of Bankers on Thursday 27th May are (from left) Prof. Linda Doyle, Trinity College Dublin, and Dr. Willie Donnelly, Director of Telecommunications Software & Systems Group( TSSG) at Waterford Institute of Technology".

NGN Software Engineer (3 month contract)

2010-05-07T10:59:29Z

Salary: €11,042 (for 3 months) Commencement Date and Project Duration: June 1st to August 27th 2010 Minimum Qualification Required: MSc or MEng in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Equivalent. Major Duties: The successful candidate will display a working knowledge of IP Multimedia Subsystem protocols and technologies. This role will involve the design and development of a prototype software service for Next Generation IP-based telecommunications Networks using access technologies such as Wifi and 2/3G Picocells. Due to the short time-frame available to complete the project the successful candidate must have the following skills: - IP Telecommunications software development - Knowledge of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) - Knowledge of SOA development tools & practices using Java or Ruby - Developing experience using J2EE and Enterprise Service Bus technologies - Good communication abilities Desirable skills include: - Familiarity with agile software development processes - Experience working in an R&D environment ]]> 5pm on 14th May 2010 to: The Human Resources Office, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland. Telephone: 051-845519 Fax: 051-302663 E-mail: recruitment@wit.ie