Domino’s Pizza has introduced a pizza checker enabled by artificial intelligence in a move designed to tackle a frequent complaint from customers: that the pizza they receive does not closely resemble the image of the pizza they ordered. The DOM Pizza Checker uses a smart scanner that sits above the pizza cutting bench and checks […]
Gold Coast turns on Australia’s largest LoRaWAN net
The City of Gold Coast has turned on what, according to supplier National Narrowband Network Company (NNNCo), is Australia’s largest and most diverse LoRaWAN network. NNNCo says it has the capacity to support more than 600,000 sensors and real-time management tools. NNNCo announced in August 2018 that it had been awarded the contract to build the […]
hayylo’s aged care platform scores a gong
Melbourne based IoT start-up hayylo has scored the award for ‘Best Smart Care Technology’ in the solutions category at the 7th Asia Pacific Eldercare Innovation Awards, part of the 10th Annual Ageing Asia Innovation Forum in Singapore. hayylo was also nominated for the ‘Innovation of the Year’ award the care model category in conjunction with […]
CCP extends temperature monitoring to cryogenic depths
ASX listed IoT company CCP Technologies (ASX:CT1) — which has built is business on remote monitoring of commercial refrigeration systems — has extended the range of its technology to monitor temperatures down to minus 80 degrees Celsius, and says it plans to go even lower. It says this will open up a market for monitoring […]
Brilliant Lighting breaks into smart home with Tuya
Australian Lighting company Brilliant Lighting has partnered with Chinese IoT platform developer Tuya to launch a range of smart home products dubbed BrilliantSmart. The BrilliantSmart range includes about a dozen products — lighting, security camera, home appliances, and sensors — that can interact with Google Home and Amazon Alexa and controlled from an Android or iPhone […]
SA Water detects leaks acoustically
SA Water’s leak detection technology, installed in 2017, has detected over half of all water main breaks and leaks in the Adelaide CBD since the start of operation. SA Water says the network has enabled it to “identify anomalies and proactively repair faults, reduce service disruptions and improve responses to unplanned works, while enhancing available […]
Devices tipped to displace drugs for chronic pain relief
A specialist in the technique of managing chronic pain through spinal cord stimulation — neuromodulation — says medicine is moving away from drugs to implantable medical devices to treat chronic diseases. The secretary of the Society of Neuromodulation for Australia and New Zealand, Dr Nick Christelis, told a pain medicine conference in Kuala Lumpur that […]
Cairns deploys SenSen Networks’ drive-by parking enforcement
Cairns Regional Council has awarded Duncan Solutions — a long term supplier of parking systems to the council — a three-year contract for the purchase and use of SenSen Networks’ SenFORCE mobile parking enforcement unit that is able to detect and report a wide range of parking infringements from a moving vehicle. The technology is enclosed […]
Newcastle to deploy NNNCo’s IoT platform
The City of Newcastle has selected NNNCo’s N2N-DL IoT platform as the middleware for its intelligent platform implementation to support multiple smart city applications. The deal also includes an agreement to run thousands of IoT devices through the platform for multiple city use cases, and to use of NNNCo’s N-tick device certification program for all […]
Canberra to get smart with help from Itron
Transport Canberra and City Services (TCCS) is working with US based Itron and Vinci Energies’ Australian subsidiary, construction engineering company Electrix, to build an IoT network that will support smart lighting and smart city and energy applications. TCCS will deploy Itron’s network across Canberra to connect streetlights and will manage these with Itron’s Streetlight.Vision […]
