{"id":41199,"date":"2024-12-03T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/?p=41199"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:28:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T14:28:58","slug":"simpro-and-obrien-partner-to-deliver-key-iot-technology-to-support-csiro-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/2024\/12\/03\/simpro-and-obrien-partner-to-deliver-key-iot-technology-to-support-csiro-research\/","title":{"rendered":"simPRO and O\u2019Brien partner to deliver key IoT technology to support CSIRO research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Joint venture implementation offers baseline data to run energy efficient residential high-rise projects in the future.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

IoT technology from leading field service management software, simPRO, is being used as part of CSIRO\u2019s innovative research into energy efficient living in apartments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The remote monitoring solution provides CSIRO with data about energy efficiency and power usage in high rise residential buildings by tracking assets such as lifts, chillers, air conditioning, lights and power at Victoria Point, Docklands, Melbourne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This information will form baseline data to run energy efficient residential high-rise projects in the future, similar to the star rating used in the design of Australian residential homes today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The implementation was made possible through a joint venture with IoT installer O\u2019Brien Electrical Wantirna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a really good understanding of energy efficiency in detached homes,\u201d Michael Ambrose, CSIRO Senior Experimental Scientist, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHowever, we have very little information about how units and apartments perform. And with the rise in apartment living, that\u2019s really how this project came about.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The research is being conducted on four buildings in the Docklands to ensure a range of data is collected in buildings within the same climate area. As these buildings are already standing however, gathering data would have been difficult without the use of software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStructural wiring would have had to be done between floors of buildings, we would have been there for a good while just doing the structured cabling,\u201d David Tripp, O’Brien Electrical Wantirna Director, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut using simPRO IoT we could do this wirelessly and simply retrofit sensors. It was such an advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter Darley, simPRO regional director (Asia Pacific), said this setup and data collection is made possible by the technology used by simPRO IoT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201csimPRO IoT uses a Low Powered Wide Area Network standard called LoRaWAN. This enables the remote monitoring solution to be retrofitted to assets already installed in a building,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is also perfect for commercial applications like this because it is low frequency and has a long range and is able to penetrate buildings and other obstructions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once collected from assets, data can be viewed and interpreted in simPRO\u2019s customisable dashboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really excited to have been able to work with O\u2019Brien and CSIRO on this fantastic project,\u201d Darley said. \u201cIt shows that IoT can be used for an incredibly broad range of use cases. IoT has an exciting future for many industries throughout Australia and overseas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joint venture implementation offers baseline data to run energy efficient residential high-rise projects in the future. IoT technology from leading field service management software, simPRO, is being used as part of CSIRO\u2019s innovative research into energy efficient living in apartments. The remote monitoring solution provides CSIRO with data about energy efficiency and power usage in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":41200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4664,17,31,55,1281,44],"tags":[76,2258,7783,7786,376,7789,7788,7785,7784,7787,7782],"class_list":["post-41199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intelligent-technologies-data","category-industry-verticals-energy","category-intelligent-technologies","category-oceania","category-tech","category-top-stories","tag-australia","tag-csiro","tag-csiro-research","tag-david-tripp","tag-iot","tag-lorawan","tag-low-powered-wide-area-network","tag-michael-ambrose","tag-obrien-electrical-wantirna","tag-peter-darley","tag-simpro"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41201,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41199\/revisions\/41201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}