Author: Ray Keefe

  • Attracting and Retaining Engineers

    Attracting and Retaining Engineers

    This post was written by Juliana Queiroz, engineer and founder of What Engineers Want, a consulting company that helps manufacturers and engineering firms to unlock their engineers’ full potential towards excellence and innovation. Overcoming labour and skill shortages Businesses stand or fall on the quality of their people – don’t you agree? If we cannot…

  • IoT Security Awareness

    IoT Security Awareness

    IoT Security Awareness Guide for Australia The IoT Alliance Australia, IoTAA for short, is working to bring standards and performance to IoT in Australia. We contribute to the Manufacturing Working Group and industry events they run.   The Internet of Things Security Awareness Guide is one of the most significant steps forward for IoT in…

  • Product Development Case Study

    Product Development Case Study

    Startup strategy This is a classic startup tale where a small team do incredibly good work to get an idea into a demonstrable form and then build a team who can complete the package. A Melbourne based business came to us with a mechanical prototype operated using three Arduino modules and hand wired actuators and…

  • Top Programming Languages 2020

    Top Programming Languages 2020

    2020 Top Programming Languages IEEE Spectrum has released the results of their survey of programming languages in use in 2020. The results follows the trend for Python as the most used programming language across all platforms. And we see that C continues to be highly used and tends to still be the dominant language for…

  • Environmental Solution of the Year

    Environmental Solution of the Year

    Environmental Solution of the Year We have been awarded the Environmental Solution of the Year at the annual Manufacturers Monthly Endeavour Awards. This is for the WaterLink SmartMESH pulse water meter reading IoT AMR system that uses Wirepas mesh networking to reduce monthly communications cost by allowing the water meter readers to form their own…