DiUS Labs

DiUS Labs embodies Research and Development initiatives that aim to keep DiUS at the forefront of technical innovation. Labs is the incubator for projects and products that we believe will make a difference to users and customers through the application of smart design and smart technologies. Labs is also our sandpit for exploring ideas that we think might be the next innovation to make a difference.

Processing Ideas

DiUS places a high price on the ideas generated from within the company and actively works to help realize them. DiUS processes ideas by actively encouraging our people to submit ideas for peer review. An ideas panel regularly assesses submitted ideas and activates a simple workflow for those that are seen as meeting our business goals or those of our network of customers and potential customers. With input from the idea submitter, candidate ideas become a sandpit project and take on all the attributes of an agile development project, with targeted releases focused on producing a market-testable software system.

Product Development

The best ideas that are developed through the sandpit environment become candidates for product development. DiUS is currently developing products in the AMI (Automated Metering Infrastructure), software testing, iPhone and social networking domains.

Labs as Service

DiUS Labs has developed a dynamic environment for exploring, developing and validating ideas and software. To support our own initiative, we have defined and implemented:

  • collaboration tools
  • agile development processes
  • software configuration management
  • development, testing and online production environments

DiUS Labs lets our network of partners and customers work with us to explore their research and development initiatives. Many organisations have the business need and desire to explore their own ideas in a technical context, but don’t have the available people, environments or even space to do so. DiUS has successfully co-resourced with a number of our partners to drive out ideas towards developing prototypes, business cases and, in some cases, fully-fledged project initiatives.

More Details

Highlights

DiUS has partnered in the development of SpringSense, a search relevancy booster that uses a patent-pending algorithm to allow users to search by meaning rather than keywords. You can read more and sign-up for the online demo at SpringSenseexternal

Charge IQexternal, DiUS’s innovative home charging technology for plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) is being implemented as a part of the Victorian Electric Vehicle Trial. Charge IQ allows vehicle owners to take advantage of off-peak electricity prices to charge their PEVs and thereby decrease the peak load on the electricity grid.
Facts Sheet

Percepscion, DiUS’s smart sensor platform has received a grant through the Victorian Government’s Smart SMEs Market Validation program to deliver proof of concept applications for the platform. The smart sensor platform has potential application across a number of different markets, including in-home health care, smart appliances, environmental and hazard monitoring, weather tracking and intelligent electric vehicle charging.