Category: Technology
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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 Innovation Award 2018
IoT Impact Awards This year saw the first IoTAA IoT Impact Conference and Expo. As part of that, there were three IoT Impact Awards presented for: Enablement in IoT Award Industry in IoT Award Innovation in IoT Award IoT Innovation Award 2018 And we are very pleased to announce we won the IoT Innovation…
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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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Smart 100 2018
Smart 100 Each year Australian Anthill look select their Smart 100. This year the arcHUB Smart Cities Sensor Suite was selected as a Smart 100. This is an IoT (Internet of Things) device that is Designed in Australia, and Made in Australia. You can read the full list of Smart 100 finalists 2018. Judging…
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Sodium Ion Batteries
Battery Technology Batteries have come a long way. There are still a lot of things we can do with existing technologies and this was covered in Making Batteries Better. Lithium Ion Battery The leading Rechargeable Battery Technology at present is the Lithium Ion Battery because of the high energy density and reduced weight compared…
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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…
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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…
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Big Data Challenges
Big Data Big Data has been touted as the answer to many problems. Currently many organisations are collecting everything they can get their hands on in order to try and make sense of it, either now, or eventually. And then of course to leverage that for profit, advantage, protection, whatever… But there is a…
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Artificial Intelligence Usage Now
Artificial Intelligence There has been hype about Artificial Intelligence, or AI, ever since we starting thinking about creating it. Moves to create truly independently thinking systems are still struggling but expert and self-learning systems have made a lot of progress. So I was interested to get an email from Karthik Reddy of 16best.net with a new…
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Self Driving Cars
Self Driving Cars Waymo, the Google spin out that is progressing their Self Driving Car technology, also know as the Autonomous Vehicle, has released a video showing how the current technology works and what being in a Self Driving Car looks like for a passenger. Enjoy. While this is still an emerging technology, it…