Category: Technology
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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…
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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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Definium Technologies
Definium Technologies This post is a shout out to Mike Cruse and the team at Definium Technologies, the latest addition to the Australian Electronics Manufacturing revolution sweeping the country. Based in Launceston, Tasmania, Definium Technologies, have recently been awarded contracts to provide a state wide LoRaWAN network for Tasmania as well as products for the…
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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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IoT Impact 2019
IoT Impact is on again this year and it promises to be bigger and better than last year. It will be held at the Hyatt Regency Sydney from October 15-16. We will be exhibiting and also entering the IoT Impact Awards again. We received the 2018 IoT Innovation Award for the IND Technology EVFD early…
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IoT in 2019
IoT Today The Internet of Things, also known as IoT, is continuing to grow. And even more rapidly as than predicted in 2016. See Internet of Things drives Economic Growth. Some recent studies show we are headed for 25 billion connected devices in 2020 with 127 devices a second being connected. The big growth sectors…
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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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Renewable Energy Cleans Up Coal
Renewable Energy On The Rise Renewable Energy is having a big impact all over the world. I was particularly pleased to hear that a new deal on energy prices in the USA offered solar electricity generation at $0.0199 per kWh and electric energy from storage batteries at $0.013. You can read the details for yourself…
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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…