Real time River Pollution Identification using Animal Behavioural Models (ALARM) was funded ($560k) by the Victorian Department of Business and Innovation as part of the Broadband Enabled Innovation Program in 2011. Together with environmental researchers at the University of Melbourne, the PRESS team established the software and hardware infrastructure for real-time data acquisition of pollution events across the waterways of Victoria. This required a unique hardware/software solution that included video capture/processing, water quality sensor detection information (on water quality) and geospatial analytics on the associated streamed data to identify potential pollution events. The system was unique in that it had to work “in the field” without dedicated power and often without Internet. A paper describing this system is available here.

Meeting the Design Challenges of nanoCMOS Electronics (nanoCMOS): The nanoCMOS project WAS a £5.3M UK e-Science pilot project that began in 2006 that focused on how the electronics domain could gain benefit through the Grid. The intention of the project was to address the research challenges in dealing with transistors of increasingly small dimensions where atomistic effects cannot be ignored, and supporting a much wider transistor design space. Key aspects of this project included intellectual property protection. The electronics domain demands protection of intellectual property of data, designs and processes. Similarly, the software used in this domain was extremely expensive and typically license protected. An example paper from nanoCMOS is available here.