Dublin-based tech firm Davra Networks has been awarded 'Fusion Project Exemplar by InterTrade Ireland. The award recognises high levels of innovation and collaboration between a company, their graduates and an academic through the Fusion programme.

Davra Network provides a software platform for the ‘Internet of Things’ called RuBAN, which has the ability to harvest data from sensors. Once collected, data is sent to the cloud where it can be made available for real-time reporting.

The Fusion project involved Davra partnering with Southern Regional College’s School of Creative Design and Computing in Newry and graduate Kestutis Kamantauskas. Kestutis was employed by Davra for the project's 18-month duration.

Davra CTO and co-founder Joe Quinn commented: “Our project has been both interesting and challenging at the same time and has had a huge impact on the company increasing staff by 13 and sales by €1.6m."

InterTradeIreland project manager Dianne Dundas added: “The company developed a new module of RuBAN and increased profitability, the academic institute had a unique opportunity to become involved in a technologically advanced commercial project while the graduate has gained valuable experience and has had a major impact on the project."

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