Synaptec Ltd
Company details
Company name
Synaptec Ltd
Company type
Micro Enterprise (less than 10 employees and revenues less than 2 MEUR)
Industry sector
Photonics General
Activity description
Synaptec was founded in 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland with a mission to reduce the downtime and operating costs of electrical power networks by providing cost-effective, high-performance instrumentation capable of underpinning present and future monitoring, protection and control functions – the Smart Grid for Digitalised Energy Transmission. The company is recognised as highly innovative and was a winner at the UK Energy Innovation Awards 2017.
Company website
https://synapt.ec/
Project information
Technology platform
TP-5: Silicon-based Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) or Chips
Application domain
Smart Cities & Smart Living
Project scope
Development of an FBG interrogator for power industry I,V measurements - development of fiber optical measurement device for monitoring current and voltages in power industry
ACTPHAST Partners
Tyndall-UCC
Project leader
Marc Rensing
Project start
April 2019
Project duration
5 months