Author Archives: Gert Hattingh
Remote sensing of river quality
Have a look at our new story map – it shows how Wintec researchers in the primary industry and sustainability teams are working with Beef and Lamb farmers in a priority water catchment. The aim it to use sensors to measure environmental indicators to engage with farmers so they can understand the ‘footprint” of their farms […]
Masters student required for industry project
The Centre for Transdisciplinary Research and Innovation has a project in industry suitable for a Masters candidate with a background in the built environment. The Project Idea: To create an electronic (or other) positioning system for building sites and other industries to help find accurate on-site grid-lines, heights, datum’s, and plans. We are looking for […]
We reached a Milestone with our IoT systems!
We have developed very effective sensor networks and systems in the past, but have been tampering with a new emphasis on smaller modular IoT enabled systems. The purpose of these smaller systems is to create modular units with a specific functionality that can be used in numerous different applications, whilst the cost is kept really […]
The Smart Garden is heating up!
We have been working furiously on making the Smart Garden project (sponsored by Curious Minds) a success. Fortunately, we have been privileged to work with some really smart young people! We kicked off our campaign and jumped straight into starting to make sensors for our garden. The first sessions were attended by about 30 enthusiastic […]
Welcome to our Interns from Kyungpook University
We have the privilege of hosting six new interns from the well-known Korean Kyungpook University. These six students will spend the next 16 weeks at Wintec improving their English, as well as working on projects within our innovation hubs. They arrived yesterday afternoon at the Auckland International Airport, and we welcomed them this morning at […]
Using young talent in our projects!
We have been working hard on producing the sensor sets for a large environmental project (in collaboration with Beef and Lamb NZ, and the Waikato River Authority). The primary focus of this project is to help farmers understand how their activities impact on river quality, and ho to improve on this. We have seven test […]
Smart community vegetable gardening – A first update
We are currently busy with the background work for our Smart community gardening project, funded by Curious Minds. We are starting with a base of about 30 very enthusiastic secondary school students in Cambridge, New Zealand. When we applied for the funding, we saw an opportunity to transfer some of the knowledge we gained in […]