A network of IoT sensors to monitor a busy urban environment and enable better management and a system that combines IoT water monitors with human decision making are among the finalists in the Data Smart Transformation category of the 2024 Australian IoT Awards.
The awards are 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 advance productivity, security and sustainability across Australian industry and government, from water and energy to manufacturing and government services.
Winners of IoT Awards categories will be announced over networking drinks and canapes at the culmination of the 2024 IoT Impact conference on June 13 at UTS in Sydney.
In its fifth year, the IoT Impact conference and exhibition will explore, debate and uncover how Australia organisations can achieve sustainability goals, achieve trust and implement IoT technologies to create a data smart Australia. Purchase tickets and see the IoT Impact Conference agenda here.
The Data Smart Transformation Award finalists
Indicium Dynamics and Devonport establish smart city precinct
Indicium Dynamics worked with Devonport City Council to deploy a wide range of sensors in Devonport’s Smart City Precinct.
These were connected over the Indicium LoRaWAN network to measure multiple parameters, including toilet usage, traffic and pedestrian flows, storm drain levels and weather to enable better management of the environment.
Incidium Dynamics also built dashboards on the Indicium platform to enable council staff to make effective use of the information gathered and trained staff to use the platform.
eHealth NSW onboards local health districts to Health Enterprise Data Lake
eHealth NSW built a data lake to enable NSW Health to enhance its analytics capability to support decision making for better patient outcomes and organisational performance.
The data lake consolidates data from multiple health system sources – including frontline systems such as the electronic medical records (eMR) and from IoT devices such as medical, wearable, home health monitoring and smart health infrastructure devices and IoT enabled hospital equipment.
It uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) for cloud infrastructure and Snowflake as the engine.
A data analytics platform takes data from the data lake, enabling NSW Health teams to access advanced analytics tools to support their research initiatives.
WaterGroup combines IoT and human agency to save water
WaterGroup’s Active Water Analysis Risk and Efficiency (AWARE) service combines real time water usage metering and cloud-based data analytics with human intervention with the goal of enabling large organisations to achieve significant water usage reductions.
Savings are recorded, monitored, verified and reported to stakeholders along with identification of key issues.
WaterGroup focused on achieving cost-effective and water savings by encouraging user action.
Telstra, Charles Sturt University and Food Agility CRC’s Smart Data Ecosystem
The project connected data from weather and moisture sensors, soil maps, crop yield and field boundaries on CSU’s Global Digital Farm – a showcase for digital agriculture solutions – and made the data available to CSU researchers, students and partners for use with various applications.
The project used the Telstra Data Hub, a cloud-based platform designed to enable secure and seamless data sharing and collaboration by stakeholders and technology providers.
It aimed to demonstrate the technical feasibility, user desirability and potential value of such a system, and identified areas for improvement and further development.
Thank you to all entrants
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. Thank you for giving the judges the opportunity to learn more about your achievements.
A special thank you to the award judges who brought valuable knowledge in key domains to the judging process.
We also thank IoT Skills Australia for making the 2024 IoT Awards possible though their sponsorship.
The IoT Impact conference will be held in Sydney on 13 June, 2024, at the Great Hall, UTS. Purchase tickets and see the IoT Impact Conference agenda here
