Telclic has been shortlisted last year in the Software & Electrical Engineering Project of the Year category at the Engineering Excellence Awards 2025 for Station Lite, a solar-powered bike station solution that removed the conventional requirements for mains power connections and groundworks, enabling faster and more flexible deployment across multiple Irish cities.

Developed for Ireland's TFI Bikes programme, Station Lite was designed to address the practical constraints that slow the expansion of urban cycling infrastructure — the cost, time, and disruption associated with connecting new stations to existing power and communications networks.

By engineering a self-contained, solar-powered solution with an app-first interface, Telclic produced a system that could be installed rapidly at a fraction of the cost of conventional bike station infrastructure.

The results validated the approach. Station Lite supported the introduction of 100 new e-bikes in 2025 and contributed to a 61 percent increase in trips — outcomes that demonstrated the technology's capacity to drive meaningful growth in sustainable urban transport uptake rather than simply adding infrastructure for its own sake.

The Software & Electrical Engineering Project of the Year category evaluates entries on the quality of engineering design, the innovation embedded in the solution, the challenges overcome during development, and the positive impact delivered for the community or industry the project serves.

Telclic's shortlisting reflects the judging panel's view that Station Lite represented a technically inventive and practically impactful response to one of urban transport planning's most persistent obstacles.

As the Engineering Excellence Awards 2026 draws closer, who will set the benchmark for software and electrical engineering innovation in Ireland?

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