It was announced today that Irish Group Taoglas has secured the funding totalling €633,000 from the European Space Agency (ESA) with the support of Enterprise Ireland, the co-ordinating body for ESA in Ireland.
Taoglas is an innovative technology Group delivering antenna products and radio frequency (RF) solutions to global brands. They are a 100% Irish owned Group founded by two Irish entrepreneurs, Ronan Quinlan and Dermot O’Shea, Joint Managing Directors.
The funding has contributed towards a complex research, development and commercialisation of their ZRM project, which combines the antenna elements, data router and Wi-Fi transceiver into a technology platform to provide an “Always Online” solution for fixed and mobile applications.
Taoglas is a leader in IoT antenna technology with subsidiaries and world class design, engineering and testing facilities in Wexford, San Diego, Munich, and Taoyuan County, Taiwan. They are fully committed to a long relationship with both Enterprise Ireland and ESA to enable Taoglas to expand their antenna and RF research and development centre of excellence in Ireland.
With the securing of this funding from ESA, Taoglas have been able to employ six highly skilled engineers to develop the technology platform, capable of covering Cellular LTE MIMO, GNSS, dual band Wi-Fi MIMO and Iridium communications in a compact form factor at a highly competitive price. They believe the technology platform to be a disruptive technology in the IoT marketplace and have received significant interest from major multinational router companies to fully commercialise the design.
Taoglas are currently working on the next evolution of the platform and the Enterprise Ireland-backed company plans to recruit more engineers over the next twelve months to expand its workforce at its Wexford facility, bringing further employment to its headquarters.
According to Enterprise Ireland’s ESA Programme Manager, Tony McDonald said, "Taoglas represents one of a growing number of Irish companies benefiting from ESA support, in the expanding IoT market. We expect to see further participation by Enterprise Ireland client companies in this specific sub sector in 2017."
Source: www.businessworld.ie
