Category: Innovation
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Good Design Australia Awards 2021
Good Design Awards Australia 2021 We are pleased to announce that the Infalurt child safety monitoring system has been selected as a finalist in the Good Design Australia Awards 2021. The Infalurt Child Safety System for automotive vehicles monitors and alerts you if you leave a child in a vehicle. It is a finalist in…
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IoT Impact 2019 Update
IoT Impact is on next week in Sydney. We are exhibiting, I’m presenting and we are also finalists for the IoT Innovation Award for Australia in 2019.
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Smart Homes
What is a Smart Home? This is another of those highly used terms that seems to mean different things to different people. I thought it would be useful to look at the history of the Smart Home and where it might be headed. The common elements of a Smart Home today are: Home Automation, especially…
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Glass Battery Improves Over Time
Glass Battery Construction A big issue with batteries is that they deteriorate. So loss of battery capacity over time is generally accepted. When there are claims that a battery can improve its capacity over time, there is a great deal of skepticism. The claims come from a laboratory that belongs to one of the most…
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Hydrogen Fuel from Ammonia
Hydrogen Fuel Hydrogen Fuel has a lot of great positives. It has been used to he moon and to power spacecraft. But it does have an annoying problem. Hydrogen is the smallest atom and the H2 molecule is the smallest molecule. So it is hard to keep hold of. It leaks. A recent breakthrough…
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AI Revolution
Artificial Intelligence Revolution The Artificial Intelligence revolution has been touted for years now. And there is no doubt it is happening, just much slower than we would have expected. So are there examples we can draw on to evaluate what is actually happening? The next section was provided to me by Karthik Reddy of techjury.net…
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Casey INNovation Summit and TEDxCasey
Casey INNovation Summit The Casey INNovation Summit is at Bunjil Place on April 28 2019. There are a lot of free events and Successful Endeavours will be exhibiting along with the Casey Tech School and many others. TEDxCasey TEDxCasey is on at the same time and includes a free afternoon TEDxCasey Youth Talks session. But…
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SWER Line Monitoring
SWER Lines In rural distribution of electricity, Single Wire Earth Return (SWER) is used to reduce the cost of wiring by running a single wire for the active and using the Ground (Earth) as the return path. Because these lines run for long distances through sparsely populated regions it isn’t as likely that a fault…
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IoT Impact 2018
IoT Impact IoT Impact is the primary IoT (Internet of Things) event for 2018. It is supported by IoTAA (IoT Alliance Australia) and is being held in Sydney at UTS from 10 – 11 September. We will be exhibiting. You can register with our discount code to get a discount on the conference part…
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A Better Diode
What is wrong with Diodes? At one level, nothing. The humble Diode conducts current in one direction only, can have very large voltage blocking capabilities and a Schottky Diode can have lower forward voltages so it dissipates less heat. All very well and good while currents are modest. But very high currents lead to…