Telstra Internet of Things Hackathon

Updated: 14 November 2024

Our IoT setup for Telstra Hackathon

One week Innovation Challenge at Telstra

I had the opportunity to participate in a one-week innovation challenge at Telstra, focusing on IoT (Internet of Things) solutions. Our team at DiUS took on the task of creating a cost-effective sensor solution using Telstra's M2M network and cloud services. My role? Bringing the front-end to life! It was a whirlwind of creativity and coding, and I had an absolute blast building the user interface and interactions for our innovative sensor technology.

To monitor the storage tanks, we placed sensors on their exteriors. These sensors cleverly determined the fill level of each tank by measuring the temperature variations along the tank's surface. My contribution was building a user-friendly display that showed the levels of multiple tanks simultaneously. This was especially crucial for farmers with numerous tanks spread across their property, as it allowed them to efficiently track their stock and ensure that deliveries were only dispatched when necessary, optimizing resources and reducing unnecessary trips.

"The Internet of Things (IoT) is exploding and fast becoming ubiquitous; the promise to improve the way we live through connecting day-to-day objects to an intelligent network is now a reality. There has been a massive shift in our ability to generate, analyse, and act on, information collected from the physical environment."
- DiUS

Illustration of IoT

IoT and DiUS

Zoran Angelovski from DiUS was quoted in an article on ARN (excerpts found here) saying, “We were approached by Telstra to participate in the hackathon", and

"...for this collaboration, we developed an end-to-end solution based on Telstra kit and on its machine-to-machine (M2M) network and connecting to its cloud service.

“We created some cost-effective sensors for this idea that paired with Telstra technology.

“There are similar sensors out there in the market, but they are far too expensive to be viable from a commercial perspective,” he said. “We developed a technique that was cheap, and that was the aim of the challenge for us.”