🌱 We are pleased to announce that Walton Institute at @SETUIreland has secured €100k in Enterprise Ireland Proof of Concept funding to develop AgritatorAI, a next-generation artificial intelligence Agricultural and land image analysis platform. AgritatorAI’s initial development aims to automate Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) compliance verification. With 6.2 million beneficiaries across Europe, AgritatorAI will develop a production-grade AI engine capable of identifying crops, detecting land activity such as grazing, and assessing compliance features within land parcels, greatly speeding up the claims process. #WaltonInstitute #SETU #AI #Agritech #CAP #EnterpriseIreland #Innovation 📰 waltoninstitute.ie/news-and-…

🎉 We are proud to announce that a paper by Walton Institute at @SETUIreland's Kavindu Sellahewa, James Joseph Shawe, Mohammed Gismalla and Dr Deirdre Kilbane has been published in the International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM) - 2025. The publication 'Predicting Wavefront Errors by Analysing Point Spread Function in Space Optical Communications' focuses on improving satellite optical communication, which is like sending data via light beams between Earth and space. A big problem is that the atmosphere distorts light, making the signals blurry and weak, like looking through a wavy glass. This paper proposes using machine learning to predict these distortions directly from the blurry image itself. In simulations, the method accurately predicted the distortions, showing it could help make satellite communications clearer and more reliable. Read the full publication here now ➡️ ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract… Full story: waltoninstitute.ie/news-and-… #WaltonInstitute #SETU #Publication #SatelliteCommunications @SETU_Research @Researchirel @connect_ie

Walton's Thakshila Wedage, PhD has successfully defended his dissertation titled “THz Wireless Communication Channel Modelling for Challenging Environments and Disruptive Applications.” Thakshila and his team have pioneered an innovative concept known as the Internet of Paint (IoP), where nano and micro transceivers are seamlessly embedded into paint, creating sophisticated communication networks within the paint medium itself. Throughout his PhD journey, Thakshila has collaborated with esteemed supervisors Dr. Bernard Butler from the School of Computing at @SETUIreland and Prof. Sasitharan Balasubramaniam from @UNLincoln USA. He worked alongside distinguished scholars such as Prof. M. Can Vuran, Prof. Josep Miquel Jornet, and Prof. Christos Argyropoulos in developing his research publications. Thakshila’s examination committee consisted of Prof. David Malone, Director of the Hamilton Institute at NUI Maynooth, and Dr. Indrakshi Dey, Head of the Programmable Autonomous (PAS) Division at Walton Institute. @VistaMilk @agricuture_ie #PhD @SETU_Research #Thesis #InternetofPaint #IoP waltoninstitute.ie/news-and-…

Thank you for taking the time to learn about Walton Institute and our effort to improving the state-of-the-art using #AI and #quantum communications.

The DIVINE project @divine_hrzn_eu will be hosting this exciting webinar on Monday 30 June. Don’t miss this insightful session featuring two leading initiatives, International Data Spaces Association (IDSA) and Data Spaces Support Centre, as they share frameworks and strategies for creating and capturing value in dataspaces. Book your space below today. ⬇️ If you are a farmer or other agri-stakeholder, DIVINE are also conducting an ongoing stakeholder survey on datasharing and digitaltransformation in agriculture. Take 10 minutes to share your views here ➡️docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… Walton Institute is a proud partner of the DIVINE project demonstrating value of agri data sharing for boosting data economy in agriculture 🌱 #Datasharing #Digitaltransformation #Agriculture #SmartAgri