By Justin Hendry on May 10, 2021 5:49PM
Invests $50m in joint venture with Xerox.
The Victorian government will deploy internet of things (IoT) sensors to remotely monitor the structural health of high-priority bridges as part of a new joint venture with Xerox.
Transport infrastructure minister Jacinta Allan announced $50 million in funding to develop and roll out the technology through a new company, Eloque.
It follows earlier trials between rail operator VicTrack and Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC), which has developed the sensors.
The fibre optic-connected sensors will be used to reduce disruptions by “accurately measuring and estimating structural strain, thermal response, bending, loads, vibration and corrosion”.
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IMAGE: Michael Franz of the University of California, Irvine is the recipient of the ACM Charles P. Chuck Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award. view more
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ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that Michael Franz of the University of California, Irvine is the recipient of the ACM Charles P. Chuck Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award. Franz is recognized for the development of just-in-time compilation techniques that enable fast and feature-rich web services on the internet. Every day, millions of people around the world use online applications such as Gmail and Facebook. These web applications would not have been possible without the groundbreaking compilation technique Franz developed in the mid 1990s.