New ’super sensors’ available soon
The first commercially manufactured versions of the CSIRO-designed environmental and industrial sensor platform, FLECK, will be available in early 2009. The technology promises to open new opportunities for gathering information that will lead to productivity gains in a wide range of industries including agriculture, aquaculture, manufacturing, mining, construction and environmental management.
Tasmanian company The Powercom Group – through its subsidiary Datacall Telemetry – is the chosen manufacturer of the platform, which gathers information in the field and delivers it to a server and then the Internet.
‘This is good news for anyone in the business of gathering data in remote areas and having it acted upon in the field, independent of outside instruction,’ says Sensor Networks theme leader for CSIRO’s ICT Centre, Dr Gautam Tendulkar.
‘FLECK allows the creation of a wireless network of devices that sense the environment, share information through wireless communications, formulate group decisions and instigate required actions,’ he says.
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