Category: Low Power Electronics
Halocell – Australian Photovoltaics Just Got Better
Halocell and Photovoltaics Photovoltaics is quite a mouthful. But you already know them as Solar Panels and Solar Cells. But I deliberately went away from using those terms because of what it immediately conjures to mind. In practice, Photovoltaic = anything that takes Light (photons) and turns that into a Voltage. I was very pleased…
Fixing WiFi’s biggest weaknesses
So what is wrong with WiFi? WiFi has been a brilliant success story. CSIRO invention, near ubiquitous uptake for commercial and private use and a daily part of our lives. But it does have some drawbacks: high power consumption for battery based systems range, especially with walls or trees in the way increasing numbers of…
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…
Environmental Solution of the Year
Environmental Solution of the Year We have been awarded the Environmental Solution of the Year at the annual Manufacturers Monthly Endeavour Awards. This is for the WaterLink SmartMESH pulse water meter reading IoT AMR system that uses Wirepas mesh networking to reduce monthly communications cost by allowing the water meter readers to form their own…
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.
Electronex 2019
Electronex Electronex is the primary Electronics Manufacturing show for Australia. This year it is at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. We will have some new Made in Australia products to shows and I’ll be doing presentations on how to design an ultra-low-power IoT device and on the Innovation process.
Improving Power Distribution
Electrical Power Distribution Electricity is essential to the modern world. It is the power source behind the vast majority of modern appliances. And for large quantities of it, we are currently mostly burning things to produce heat to run generators to create AC power to transformers to high voltage power lines to more transformers, low…
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…
arcHUB – Agilent Innovation in Analytical Science runner up
arcHUB Tonight I was at the CleanUp 2017 conference awards dinner. We recently learned that the the arcHUB Smart Cities device was a finalist for the Agilent Award for Innovation in Analytical Science. This award was presented tonight. The arcHUB Smart Cities device measures multiple data types that are useful for the management of Smart Cities including particulates, gases, micro-climate, pedestrian traffic, water…
arcHUB – Agilent Award for Innovation in Analytical Science 2017
Agilent Award for Innovation in Analytical Science We are pleased to announce that our client, The Active Reactor Company, are finalists in the Agilent Award for Innovation in Analytical Science 2017 this coming Tuesday 12 September 2017. This is for the arcHUB Smart Cities device that measures multiple data types that are useful for the…