Shane McCrossan is a Research Engineer and industry PI at the WiSAR Lab. Shane holds an MSc by Research in the subject of Energy Harvesting from Ambient RF sources and a BEng (Hons) in Embedded Systems Design. Shane’s current research interests include embedded system design, wireless technologies, energy harvesting and low power applications. Having been employed in the WiSAR Lab and its predecessor, the EpiCentre, since 2006, Shane has over 10 years’ experience working on collaborative projects with industry.
Shane works primarily on industry research projects funded by Enterprise Ireland and his recent projects include:
- An investigation of Low Power Wide Area Networks which have led to several projects utilising SIGFOX and LoRa
- A number of marine centric development projects which required embedded system development and a wireless communications interface to cloud storage and display
- Scoping out a system to measure weight and velocity for gym training, IV2017-1206
- Wireless testing for object detection and selection of appropriate frequency for development, IV2017-2154
- Principal investigator in an investigation into water pump monitoring solutions, IP-2018-0816Y
- Development of prototypes for detecting a child in close proximity to machinery on a farm, IV2018-1097
- Feasibility study into technologies suitable for remote monitoring of location and environmental parameters in a fish farm, IV2018-2147
- Prototype development to detect when a ewe is lambing, IV2018-3105, 2018
- Proof of concept design file development of a temperature measurement and data logger, IV-2018-3021
- Water Pump for Africa -the development of a monitoring system to gather data from hand-pumps used in Uganda, IP2019-0802, 2019-2022
- Development of a wearable data logger prototype for cattle monitoring, IV2019-1603
- Development of a control board for a small consumer scale Bio Digester, EI,2021
