Australian Govt. Backs Switch

The Innovation Minister, Senator Kim Carr, today announced $10 million of support for 23 companies through Commercialisation Australia.   

Switch Automation is the largest beneficiary in this round securing $2 million dollars of funding over two years to assist in the commercialisation of the Switch Sustainability Platform.

The Switch Sustainability Platform is a cloud based platform for automation and energy management in apartments, commercial buildings and homes.

The Switch Sustainability Platform provides a simple, cost effective and web-enabled solution for the flourishing Green Building market ensuring that building owners, managers, tenants and residents can monitor, measure and control their energy consumption.

Commercialisation Australia is assisting Switch Automation in their efforts to bring the platform to market.

Envi - Australia's Most Sustainable Classroom

 Congratulations to the Dept. Education and Early Childhood Development (VIC) on the opening of their new sustainable classroom last Thursday officiated by Princess Mary of Denmark, seen pictured below.



The Envi classroom is the most sustainable classroom in Australia with a range of technologies from all over the world including the Danish Window Master, a KNX automated ventilation system.  The Switch Platform is an integral part of the project providing energy and environmental data - both real time data and historical information for comparison and learning purposes. 


The user interface pictured was customised for DEECD by Rav and his team over at Rise Designs and made use of the Switch API.
 


The project had some serious time constraints and was ably delivered by iAutomation of Carnegie, Victoria.

Distributech 2012

 Intel has invited Switch Automation to participate at the annual Distributech event in San Antonio in January 2012.
This is another golden opportunity for Switch to showcase how the platform can be adapted for the emerging markets in Smart Grid and Home Energy Management Systems.

Congratulations

 To Russell Smith, our newly appointed Chairman of the Board.  Russell has been working with Switch in his capacity as a Director of Strategon for a number of years, assisting us in our commercialisation and growth strategy.

Russell is specialised in the technology sector, particularly cloud, mobile  technologies, on-line media, bio-technology and clean tech. Over the last 12 months he has completed a wide variety of successful assignments, including  international joint ventures, regional distribution partnerships, strategic acquisitions and capital raisings in Asia-Pacific and Australia.
 
Before joining Strategon, Russell founded and sold a successful boutique winery. Prior to this he spent 14 years in investment banking in Australia, Hong Kong and the United States with a number of leading financial institutions including Macquarie Bank and Standard Chartered Bank.
 
Russell is the Director of a number of SaaS and technology companies.