Read about the Grand Challenge projects awarded NSSN Fund grants; the game changing algorithms which can remotely detect why many solar panels are underperforming; and learn how AI started as a mid-century dream and why it became a digital dilemma.

A NSW Smart Sensing Network Grand Challenge project has found a way to tackle the blight of solar panel underperformance, which is costing an estimated $US4.6 billion globally in preventable losses.

The NSSN is seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified individuals to join its Board.

Learn about the 70 year history of AI in this Thought Piece by the NSSN’s Machine Learning and Data Engineer, Dr Ayu Saraswati.

A 12 month-trial will offer app-based hearing checks to Meals on Wheels recipients in Sydney, with potential to expand the program nationwide. It’s one of seven 2024 NSSN Grand Challenge projects.

Innovative smart sensing projects which promote sustainable beekeeping practices, empower oyster farmers to navigate floods and heatwaves, and help identify hearing issues in homebound older people have secured funding in this year’s NSSN Grand Challenge Fund. 

This month we celebrate diversity and International Women’s Day; read a wrap-up of the Sensing the West Forum in Parramatta; and learn about the new low-cost "lab in your pocket" device created by UNSW researchers.

The NSSN Sensing the West Forum has heard there is great opportunity for innovative smart sensing solutions to reduce risk and enable evidence-based decision making in Western Sydney. 

The definition of a smart sensor is described in lay terms in this Thought Piece by the NSSN’s Business Development Manager, Laura Earl.

As we celebrate Harmony Day, we recognise the breadth and depth that cultural diversity brings to the NSSN, and the valuable contributions that researchers from all different backgrounds bring to smart sensing research.

This International Women’s Day we are proud to highlight several researchers in our network who identify as women and whose work is connected to smart sensing: from wearables and compression stockings, to bushfires and nanosensors.

Biosensing technology developed by a team of UNSW engineers and led by NSSSN Ambassador Scientia Professor Ewa Goldys has made it possible to create gene test strips that rival conventional lab-based tests in quality.