On Wednesday night, the annual InnovationAus Awards for Excellence recognised 15 innovative organisation and individuals who excelled in their field of expertise – with sustainable and climate technology dominating the top ranks.
Below are some notable winners that delivers game changing sustainable technology.
Simpact
“King of Coolth” Sebastian Pfautsch’s SIMPaCT project, short for Smart Irrigation Management for Parks and Cool Towns, won People’s Choice award at an awards event this week to celebrate innovation in technology.
The Western Sydney University-based project aims to change how recreational spaces are used by using 250 IoT (internet of things) devices and two artificial intelligence algorithms to combat urban heating in Sydney’s Bicentennial Park.
The project also won the excellence award at the InnovationAus Awards for Excellence in the Govtech Project, Product or Service prize, receiving praise from the nation’s chief scientist, Dr Cathy Foley, on the same night.
“We are all humbled by the strong support from the public for our climate change adaptation and city cooling technology,” Dr Pfautsch said.
The project has also been a finalist in the Global Smart City Awards in Barcelona earlier in the year.
With more plans in the pipeline for SIMPaCT, Pfautsch hopes its win will bring representation to western Sydney.
Other winners included:
- Mint Innovation, a startup comprised of a team of chemists, biologists, and engineers, is focusing on becoming the world’s leading provider of circular green metals by using a city-scale, clean metal recovery technology. The company’s vision of challenging the status quo by enabling enough low-carbon ethical metal recovery to democratise urban mining. Its ambitious vision had won the organisation the Manufacturing Innovation Award and the Energy and Renewables Award.
- BluGlass Limited, a company which develops and commercialises RPCVD (remote plasma chemical vapour deposition) – semiconductors that enables cleaner and smarter photonics use in defence, quantum and bio-technology, had taken out the top Australian Hero Award on the night. The organisation was also awarded a prize for excellence in the Defence, Dual-Use Technology and Space category.