Comment by Peter Roberts No-one expects the coming federal election to be decided on the fundamental challenges facing Australia’s economy and manufacturing sector. But there are signs of a more progressive attitude towards industry policy and some understanding of the massive changes being wrought by innovation in product and production processes. To my mind, one…
Wireless video and data transmission technology company, Elsight Limited (ASX:ELS) has begun manufacturing what it hopes will be its’ breakthrough product, the Halo communications platform. The hardware platform incorporates the company’s unique algorithms that facilitate secure and highly reliable communications from remote cameras to control rooms and command centres. Halo will be available from June…
Swinburne University of Technology and industry research partners including composites manufacturer, Quickstep Holdings (ASX: QHL), have received $1 million from a federal government R&D programme. The grant from the Global Innovation Linkages programme brings to $3.5 million the partners are spending developing on Industry 4.0 manufacturing systems for high volume, lightweight composites. Their project will…
Canadian home lithium ion energy storage system manufacturer, Eguana has opened in Adelaide, according to CEO Justin Holland. Holland tweeted about the opening, posting posting a photograph of founder Brent Harris in Adelaide taking partners through the features of the Eguana Evolve system as part of training. Holland said: “The Eguana Evolve will be manufactured…
Science fiction didn’t do a great job in preparing us for our first real encounters with AI. Rather than a walking, thinking C-3PO from the movies, the current iteration of AI is quite different. With modern AI, all the “thinking” gets done in the cloud, and the algorithms are not tied to the identity of…
Brisbane’s L3-Micreo will produce and export more than 14,000 SILVERSHIELD units which protect vehicles from radio-controlled improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The units will be delivered to the Afghanistan National Defence and Security Forces and are in addition to 16,000 systems exported in 2018. The latest contract, announced by defence industry minister, Linda Reynolds, brings to…
Scientists from Australia’s Defence Science and Technology group have successfully demonstrated underwater detection with a new type of sensor. The detector, which utilises a cutting-edge single-photon avalanche detector (SPAD) built by a team led by scientist Joyce Mau, has been patented by DST. SPAD is a solid-state photodetector in which photons of light can trigger…
Brisbane renewable energy technology company, Planet Ark Power has won an award in the global Start Up Energy Transition (SET) awards 2019 just finalised in Germany. The awards, an initiative of the German Energy Agency, recognised Planet Ark in the intelligent grids category, beating out 450 businesses from 80 countries. The company’s executive director, Richard…
By Stuart Corner of IoT Australia Taggle Systems, which has developed devices and a low powered wide area network for IoT, has stuck a deal with the Mackay Regional Council in Queensland to commercialise its’ MiWater application. The application uses smart water meters to detect water leaks and complements Taggle’s IoT sensors, transmitters, receivers, power…
The federal government has announced a $25 million grant to a new co-operative research centre to help develop batteries for electric vehicles and for energy storage. Even as it is mired in an argument over the opposition’s target of 50 per cent electric vehicles, the government announced The Future Battery Industries CRC. Industry minister, Karen…
