Education Minister Dan Tehan advised Australian Research Council funding on Saturday for eleven projects.

Notable new Linkage programme awards include: data- driven grants for Swinburne U, one on firmware vulnerabilities in smart home devices and the other on vehicle traffic analytics. An RMIT team and partners are funded to investigate electricity demand due to households’ digital consumption.

The University of Adelaide is funded to work on sensors to predict water pipe bursts and Curtin U to develop computer intelligence for planning repair and maintenance of infrastructure assets.