The shortage of skilled cablers and digital installers due to the rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN) is being met by e-learning.

The future lies in converged solutions - enabling us to deliver complete building and energy management systems and, in turn, enable building owners to save a couple of hundred hours’ energy use each year.

As energy becomes increasingly expensive and a price on carbon turns out to be imminent, the need to save energy is at the forefront of business minds.

In these austere times, management is being forced more than ever before to keep expenditure under control. Cuts have been made to company staffing levels, marketing budgets and in a number of other areas. If these technology enterprises are to survive though, they cannot afford to compromise on product/service quality, which means that choosing the right test equipment is more important than ever.

The likely introduction of a carbon tax in Australia has sparked lively debate between proponents and opponents.

LiquidLEDs Lighting has introduced Liquid Immersed Thermal Management Solution (LITMS), a liquid solution that encapsulates the diode, effectively eliminating heat-caused problems. LiquidLEDs has also introduced another design which combines the engineering found in incandescent light bulbs with new LED innovations. The company has an extensive range of ‘LED filament bulbs’, which features a filament of LEDs - similar to the old filaments found in incandescent bulbs.

LEDs hold great promise as a new light source for general illumination. While there are some excellent products available, LEDs are beset by quality problems and many in the marketplace fail to match suppliers’ claims of efficiency, longevity and other critical parameters. For this reason, Lighting Council Australia has introduced a quality scheme for LEDs.

An industry-wide Power over Ethernet standard was officially ratified in 2003 with IEEE 802.3af, and since then the use of Power over Ethernet technology has rapidly grown around the world in many industries and applications.

California can reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050 through bold policy, behavioural changes as well as some scientific innovation.

Energy efficiency is expected to be critical to future profitability of manufacturers and power utilities, according to a survey.

Securing a virtual environment means more than just policing its entry points, says Marc Meulensteen, Cloud Security Expert, Spirent Communications.

Evcco’s HFT conduit is a halogen-free, fire-retardant and temperature-resistant plastic conduit that would be as robust as galvanised steel but as easy to work with as PVC.

Scientists at the University of California have come up with a software and sensor-based solution that helps reduce energy usage.

Helping flood-affected company G&D Mechanical get back on its feet

Project: To help flood-affected company, G&D Mechanical, get back on its feet
Solution: Queensland Electric Training’s ‘Helping the helpers’ campaign