Photos: The 2023 IoT Awards winners

Standout Australian industry and government projects and solutions using the Internet of Things (IoT) were recognised as winners of the 2023 IoT Awards in Sydney yesterday evening. 

Sponsored by Akkodis, IoT Skills Australia, KORE, KPMG, nbn, SUEZ, these are the official awards of Australia’s peak industry body for Internet of Things, IoT Alliance Australia.

The IoT Awards provide a snapshot of how IoT is being used to advance management of Australian energy and water networks, operational efficiency in multiple industries and modernise government services, among many other uses.

Pictured above is the team from Telstra and Jemena accepting the Energy Award for their Meter Data Logger Program, which enabled Jemena to extend the life of legacy, analogue metering assets for tens of thousands of customers in high rise buildings, while enabling remote meter reads.

The awards were presented at the culmination of IoT Impact 2023, a one-day event about IoT for smart places, manufacturing, energy, sustainability, remote connectivity, circular economy, digital trust, construction, agriculture, workforce skills, fair and safe IoT, asset mamagement, digital twins, disaster resilience and other topics. See photos from IoT Impact.

Click the arrows on the photo above to see the rest of the IoT Awards recipients.

Telstra and Jemena also received the Security Award for their Meter Data Logger Program, which was developed to meet comprehensive critical infrastructure requirements and customer privacy considerations. This ranges from ISO27001 certification for selected IP network products and international operations and services, to regular independent audits. Both companies have teams, processes and systems to monitor for and manage security incidents.

Western Sydney University, Eratos and University of Technology Sydney accepted the Research Award for the Smart Parks Can Cool Our Cities project. This project uses machine learning modules tied to 202 micro-locations to learn what optimal soil moisture is for each, and how weather and irrigation events will alter soil moisture against additional contexts.

Bodd Technologies earned the Manufacturing Award for their 3D Body Scanners, which are manufactured in Australia in partnership with Bosch. The AWS-connected scanners use high fidelity scans taking less than a minute to fit a person for an entire product catalogue of clothing, saving time for uniform fitting and potentially reducing waste for retailers.

Keltech IoE was presented with the Construction Award for the KelTech IoT Label On A Cable. The product uses encrypted NFC tags to provide online, real-time visibility of deployed IoT assets, such as switches and cables. It is in use in projects around the world.

Outcomex were asked to the stage again to accept the Transport Award for TransportDeck: Pick-Up and Drop-Off Bays within NSW, which provides Councils with real-time data about the number and nature of pedestrian and vehicle movements to improve traffic flow and decrease wait times.

South East Water was also a multiple award winner, with its Digital Utility at Scale project also earning the Smart Places & Infrastructure Award. The organisation deployed thousands of meters and sensors in Victoria and alerted thousands of customers to potential leaks, saving them an estimated $1.28 million dollars.

The Outcomex team were called on stage again to to receive the Food & Agriculture Award, for the Farmdeck: Monitoring Fridge Sensors pilot project. It overcame physical connectivity challenges to help McDonalds in Australia react quickly to fridge temperature changes, to avoid food waste and expenses.

The Interoperability Award was presented to South East Water for its A Digital Utility at Scale project, which includes systems and devices that can communicate across multiple telecommunication networks, use open standard protocols such as NB-IoT and LightweightM2M for carriage and data transactions and report to a multitude of head-end systems.

Inauro accepted the Health Award for the Heart of the Nation charity, which is seeking to provide a publicly accessible, central repository of data about Automated Electric Defibrillators in Australia, including to help track their use.

Western Sydney University and University of Technology Sydney accepted the IoT for Good Award, for the Smart Parks Can Cool Our Cities project. The project was the subject of a cost benefit analysis commissioned by the NSW Government, which attested to improved well-being via increased park visitation, and several Principles of Governance, including ethical behaviour and governing purpose. The expected water saving will help in establishing more green spaces, and new IP from the project will be open-source.

The Water Award was given to the Non-Urban Water Meter Monitoring solution from SigSense and Kallipr. This dual-antenna solution for WaterNSW was designed to provide a reliable, secure connection for water consumption logging, where other devices were unable.