Sensing Conveyor Systems - Webinar/Zoomcast
I had great feedback from yesterday's zoomcast/webinar about Audio Architecture, with Ann Lau from Hayball Architects talking about the audio house that has been constructed for Melbourne Design Week, based on Imagine's On-Q sensing floor mat technology. (On-Q's main commercial function is to deliver comprehensive occupancy data).
It featured David Chisholm and Fabio Morreale from University of Auckland, whose music composition and computer science expertise are also a key component, together with Thom Blum, one of the greats of electronica and acoustic design...
Next week's zoomcast will take a very different tack. It will focus on smart conveyor systems - and the key guest will be Theo Renard, Exec Director of Imagine Resources Technology (IRT), a startup company that has Imagine sensing at its technology heart.
Richard McKinnon, the zoomcast host, will anchor the program, with Phil Aitchison from Imagine, and experts from the industrial conveyor world. Conveyors are one of those technologies that are largely invisible to most of us. However, this is an extraordinary industry. It is at the centre of automation in every area of modern life. Think Amazon warehouses; think mining operations, cargo terminals... Conveyors can be 10's of kilometres long, cost millions of dollars to replace, and when they fail, the impact can be financially catastrophic.
In the last few weeks Imagine received a substantial grant from ACARP to develop a proof of concept, sensing conveyor system, using graphene sensing. This technology is being developed commercially by IRT. I am looking forward to it, and I hope that people in the LinkedIn community will join me. To get an invitation - please email me at [email protected]