We are excited to announce the IoT for Good, Security and Interoperability finalists in the 2022-23 IoT Awards, the official awards program of IoT Alliance Australia, Australia’s peak industry body for Internet of Things (IoT), and IoT Hub.

The entries provide a snapshot of how IoT is being used to support environmental sustainability of public spaces, save hundreds of megalitres of public water supplies, support emergency response, integrate digital metering at scale, amongst other achievements.

The IoT Awards finalists will be announced in Sydney on May 23 at the 2023 IoT Impact conference, which showcases the latest Australian Internet of Things (IoT) use cases, case studies and expert insights.

IoT for Good Award finalists

The IoT for Good category finalists include the digital utility at scale deployment by South East Water in Victoria, which has enabled it to save approximately 500 megalitres through the early detection and reduction of leaks.

This reduced the need for waste-water treatment, saving energy and Scope 2 carbon emissions, while sewer monitoring has prevented sewer discharge.

NSW Government-commissioned “Smart parks can cool our cities” project earned praise for expected water savings, which will help in establishing more green spaces. A cost benefit analysis of this project, which involved Western Sydney University and others, attested to improved well-being via increased park visitation, and several Principles of Governance, including ethical behaviour and governing purpose. New IP from the project will be open-source.

Endeavour Energy gained recognition for using a network digital twin to help it de-energise lines faster for the safety of the public and workers during flooding of the Hawkesbury region of NSW, and reduce the scope of asset inspection. It also helped in the design and building of a more resilient network in the region.

Security Award finalists

They include Outcomex’s Farmdeck: Monitoring Fridge Sensors solution, which was developed with a range of security considerations in mind, including ISO27001 certification across the company, compliance with NIST Supply Chain Risk Management, implementation of zero trust just-in-time and just-enough-access best practices, and encryption of collected, stored and in transit data.

Telstra and Jemena’s Meter Data Logger Program is a security finalist. The program met comprehensive critical infrastructure requirements and customer privacy considerations, with 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.

Southern Ports “Building trade capacity through real-time tracking project” is also a finalist in the security category. It aligned IoT deployment for this project with the Essential Eight, in addition to feeding IoT systems into the ports’ own risk management systems. The port also uses MOVUS AI to determine if new and old equipment is working within its normal operating parameters.

Interoperability Award finalists

They include Conexie’s CoreLogic Energy Awareness solution, which integrates data from multiple sources, promoting communication and collaboration between partners and external systems, and facilitating the resolution of energy-related problems.

South East Water’s digital utility at scale project also earned praise in the interoperability category. This project 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.

So did the “Non-Urban Water Meter Monitoring with Sigsense” project, nominated by Kallipr. To be qualified as a WaterNSW Local Intelligence Device, the Sigsense-Captis logging solution had to be interoperable with a wide range of systems, including logging water consumption data from a very wide range of Pattern-approved meters.

If your entry isn’t a finalist, that does not mean the judges thought it was without merit. Separating the nominations was not always straightforward and some nominees only just missed out on being named finalists. Thank you for giving the judges the opportunity to learn more about your achievements.

Thank you also to the award judges who brought valuable knowledge in key domains to the judging process.

We also thank IoT Skills Australia and KPMG Australia for making the 2022-23 IoT Awards possible though their sponsorship.

Winners revealed at IoT Impact on May 23

The IoT Awards winners will be announced over networking drinks and canapes at the culmination of the 2023 IoT Impact conference on May 23 at the International Convention Centre in Sydney.

See the IoT Impact agenda and purchase tickets to IoT Impact 2023.