Photos: The 2024 IoT Awards winners

Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 IoT Awards announced in Sydney yesterday evening. Their projects range from the gathering of electricity usage data from thousands of homes, to automating the testing of a system protecting sections of ~$1.7 billion worth of pipe assets. See the list of IoT Awards winners.

Finalists worked in the water, energy, government, logistics, mining, public transport, manufacturing, aquaculture and other domains, to harness sensors, data, cloud and in some cases AI to achieve impact.

The awards were sponsored by Bosch Australia Manufacturing Solutions (BAMS), IoT Skills Australia, Optus, Jacobs, Telstra and xDNA - A Downer Company.

These are the awards of Australia’s peak industry body for IoT, IoT Alliance Australia.

Pictured above: SA Water received the  Jacobs-sponsored Remote Monitoring Award, for using IoT devices to send telemetry to a cloud platform to analyse and visualise data about its pipe network and its cathodic protection system.

The Environmental Monitoring Award went to the University of Technology Sydney project to develop and deploy real-time seawater and arsenic removal monitoring systems in Vietnam to safeguard aquaculture, particularly lobster farming, against diseases and adverse water quality conditions.

On the left: Darren Hungerford (xDNA)

The xDNA-sponsored Data for Net Zero Award went to the City of Perth for publishing live data from its solar photo voltaic sites to inform the public and increase public support for net zero projects.

The Energy Management Award went to the Wattwatchers MyEnergy Marketplace, which provides real-time, highly granular energy usage data from 5,000 premises for clean energy research and innovation.

The Asset Management Award went to a system to monitor Melbourne’s tram network, developed by remote monitoring company Kallipr, Yarra Trams and tram operating company Keolis Downer, tackled the problem of debris blocking switch points in the rails.

Emma Liversidge (Jacobs)

The Industrial Automation Award went to an IoT vision-based quality control system to accurately measure and quantify the colour consistency of bricks in factory production, involving PGH Bricks & Pavers in partnership with Bosch Australia Manufacturing Solutions.

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Award went to refrigerated truck hire company Scully RSV’s ScullyLive customer portal, built on Inauro’s Perspio platform, which helps customers manage maintenance schedule compliance, asset availability and stocktakes and monitor refrigeration temperatures.

The Safety & Wellbeing Award went to the Transport for NSW smarter, safer level crossing technology trial, which uses radar-activated LED stop and advance warning signs at three passive railway level crossings in regional NSW.

The Trusted IoT Service Award went to the Transport for NSW and Sydney Olympic Park Authority’s Digital Trust for Places and Routines project in Sydney Olympic Park which aimed to increase transparency and accountability of digital technology in public places.

Charles Ridler (Telstra)

Telstra-sponsored Smart Sensing Award went to SAPHI Shellshock, a dynamic visual sensing technology for local government and transport bodies that replaces multiple devices with a single edge computing sensor.

Vijay Kumar (Bosch Australia Manufacturing Solutions)

The Bosch Australia Manufacturing Solutions-sponsored Digital Twin Innovation Award went to Digital Twinning Australia for CCEmission360, a digital twin solution to resolve CapEx-OpEx-emissions impact trade-off and automate statutory emission reporting for a multinational client.

The Optus-sponsored Research Award went to the NSW Smart Sensing Network and NSW Department of Environment OPENAIR project, helping local governments use low-cost air quality sensors and establish best practices for air quality monitoring.

Jakes Jacobs (IoT Skills Australia)

The IoT Skills Australia-sponsored Data Smart Transformation Award went to WaterGroup's Active Water Analysis Risk and Efficiency service, which adds human assistance to real-time water usage metering and cloud-based data analytics to help large organisations achieve significant water usage reductions.