John Mcgrory
Guest Professor
Electrical Engineering
Dublin Institute of Technology
Ireland
Biography
John McGrory began commercial life abroad on the production of automobiles and later performing and documenting destructive testing on Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC). Thereafter, John worked as a contracts manager and project manager for two Irish companies specialising in large scale mechanical, electrical and control installations of industrial processes. This work included mechanical and electrical design and development, interactive automation, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, HVAC and multifaceted process control. During this time John gained status as an Electrical Chartered Engineer (C.Eng.) with The Institution of Engineering and Technology, and Chartered Engineer with Engineers Ireland, formally known as The Institution of Engineers of Ireland.
Research Interest
Clinical Laboratory Validation, Software Agents, Agent-nets, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems SCADA, Programmable logic Controllers, Building Control, Energy Efficiency, Intelligent Control, Context Driven Communication, Ecological User Interfaces, Assistive Technology and Real-time Dynamic Control.
Publications
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Design of a Wireless System for Patient-Hospital Communication and Result Validation in Point of Care Testing, McGrory, John; Lynch Owen ; Coyle, Eugene; International Conference of Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications ICCIMA, Las Vegas, USA, 2005
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True Patient-centred laboratory validation using software agents, McGrory, John; Grimson Jane ; Clarke Frank ; Gaffney Peter HEALTHINF 2008 International Conference on Health informatics, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 2008
