Clever Buoy Receives NEWi Award for Best Government Solution
Clever Buoy Receives NEWi Award for Best Government Solution
BlueZone Group has been successful in The Lunaticks Society 2016 NEWi Awards for Digital Creativity, receiving the NEWi Award for the Best Government Solution. This is an award that recognises the most exciting and innovative government or NGO use of technologies or online services.
The Clever Buoy breakthrough near-shore shark detection and warning system was selected for the award.
The Clever Buoy was entirely initiated and managed by Shark Mitigation Systems Ltd with BlueZone Group providing best practice engineering capability for two stages of development.
The first stage was taken from a ‘whiteboard sketch’ to a successful practical demonstration at Bondi Beach in just twelve weeks. For the second stage, SMS assembled a global collaborative engineering team, including; systems engineers from BlueZone Group (Newcastle. NSW); mechanical engineers from Ribuck Industries (Perth, WA); sonar designs from Tritech (Aberdeenshire, Scotland), and communication system providers from Optus, who provided satellite communication services, delivery from the Cleaver Buoy to the internet and development of a smartphone application.
BlueZone Group, CTO, Darren Burrowes, accepted the award on behalf of BlueZone and the collaborative team who delivered the project. Darren said that the Clever Buoy could be considered an example of “smart city” implementation in that technology is being used in a new way to monitor public beaches to reduce the risk for swimmers. “This response is a twenty-first century response to shark/human interaction and well ahead of the nineteenth century thinking of shark meshing and the eighteenth century concept of shark culling,” said Darren.
