Brendan’s activities have achieved a balance between academic research excellence (journals and conferences) and the delivery of high impact commercial outputs in the form of technology and people-transfer to Irish industry, enabling sustainability and growth in Irish start-ups, SMEs and multinationals. Since 2009, Brendan’s team has consistently licensed IP to industry in Ireland, USA and China accounting for over 20% of all UCC licenses in this period, the highest for any one team across the whole UCC campus.
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Dr. O’ Flynn is a Principal Investigator with CONFIRM
• PhD in Development and Deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks, University College Cork
• MEng Sc in Electrical Engineering, University College Cork
• BEng in Electrical Engineering, University College Cork
• Member IEEE
• Wireless Sensor Networks
• Wireless Communications
• Sensor Networks
In his current role, Brendan has been responsible for at least 12 licenses to industry and has facilitated 5 start-up companies implementing smart systems technology:
• GRASP Wearable Technologies (2014)
• Endeco (2010)
• PMD (2012)
• Full Flight Technologies (2011)
• Impact Microelectronics (1999)
Brendan’s excellent track record in commercialisation earned him a University “Impact Award” in 2014 “in honour of his outstanding achievement across a range of criteria including creativity and innovation, building collaborations, identifying and developing and strategic opportunities”
Since 2009, Brendan’s research group has consistently licensed IP to industry, in Ireland, USA and China, accounting for over 20% of all UCC licenses in this period, the highest for any one team across the whole UCC campus. The industry-focused, applied research agenda that he has developed is core to the activities of the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) Group resulting in significant transfer of technology/IP and staff to industry
• System integration
• Miniaturisation of sensing systems & hardware
• Software co-design of embedded systems
• Wearable systems for fitness & health monitoring
• SAFE – Secure Agriculture Food Environment
• Indoor location aware systems
• Smart radio systems for internet of things
Brendan O’Flynn, J. T. Sanchez, et al, Sensors & Transducers journal (ISSN: 2306-8515, e-ISSN 1726-5479), Vol. 193, Issue 10, October 2015 , pp 23-32" Novel Smart Glove Technology as a Biomechanical Monitoring Tool J. Khodjaev, S. Tedesco, and B. O'Flynn , Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters, Vol. 58, 133-139, 2016. doi:10.2528/PIERL15100103 Improved NLOS error mitigation based on LTS algorithm Magno, M. ,Boyle, D. ; Brunelli, D. ; O'Flynn, B. ; Popovici, E. ; Benini, L., Extended Wireless Structural Monitoring through Intelligent Hybrid Energy Supply. Transactions on Industrial Electronics (61, 4 ) 1871 - 1881, April 2014,