Name: ICT Digital Sourcing Update
Start: 2025-03-26
End: 2025-03-26
Location: National

2023 VIC Winners and Merit Recipients

Student & Education Solution

Deakin University

The innovation provides a solution for conservationists and researchers that uses a network of microphone sensors and artificial intelligence to monitor, track, and analyse endangered animal movements in real time. The system is non-invasive, cost-effective, and works in low light and cluttered environments, offering several advantages over traditional camera-based monitoring systems.

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Technology Platform Solution

Telstra Health

Drawing on over a decade of experience in virtual care solutions and delivery, Telstra Health has developed Virtual Health Platform (VHP) with a primary focus on healthcare interoperability. VHP innovatively uses FHIR as its primary data repository, enabling seamless data interchange with any health systems across the globe, thereby transforming traditional care delivery into a digital, automated, and streamlined process that can be easily scaled within organisations of all sizes, for a variety of use cases.

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Sustainability & Environmental Solution

Eco Detection Pty Ltd

A WORLD’S FIRST SYSTEM. The innovation is a fully autonomous laboratory grade water analysis system designed for remote operations, critical infrastructure, wastewater processing, aquaculture, research and general water chemical analysis.

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Start-Up Solution

SilVR Adventures Pty Ltd

SilVR Adventures is eradicating social isolation through meaningful and shared virtual reality experiences. From aged care homes and retirement living communities to hospitals, their industry-award-winning solution is being used to reduce depression and loneliness by enhancing social connections among vulnerable populations.

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Not-For-Profit / Community Solution

Hashcode Pty Ltd

UNICEF commissioned Hashcode Pty Ltd (Australia) to advise, help architect, design and implement a digital mental health platform called usupport to address the growing need for mental health services for youth in Europe and Central Asia. usupport as a platform caters for the fundamentals of digital mental health and the capability to support the specific needs of countries in the region.

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Government & Public Sector Solution

Swinburne University of Technology

This innovative solution, the first of its kind in Australia, addresses the challenge of proactive maintenance of roadside assets in local government areas (LGAs). The solution involves equipping waste collection trucks with Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and 5G connectivity to capture high-resolution video data of roadside assets, such as roadside signs, bus stop shelters, and public spaces.

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Business & Industry Solution

Velrada Capital Pty Ltd

PowerView is a next generation telehealth solution that combines the connectivity provided by Starlink, with the secure collaboration tools provided by Microsoft and the capabilities enabled by Mixed Reality. It gives clinicians in remote areas the ability to bring in experts from anywhere on the planet, to assess a patient in any location.

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