The winners of Anthill’s SMART 100 (2013) were published on
Anthill’s site on 11 June 2013. LX Design House was announced as being in the
Top 10 of Anthills SMART 100 index for their design of the QuickFire
Pyrotechnics Firing System, which is being developed for Elite Fireworks. LX is
an electronics design house based in Sydney at the Australian Technology Park.
Anthill’s SMART 100 recognises not just innovative, and
unique products, but also ranks products based on their potential to achieve
consumer adoption and commercial success.
“We’re very excited to receive this prestigious award. Awards
such as this, which recognise not only the innovative nature of the design but the
ability for the product to be successfully commercialised really goes to the
heart of what we are striving towards at LX. We want our clients to be
successful and to see their products being sold on a global scale. This affirms
that our internal engineering and design standards are world class. In addition
to this, we are all particularly excited for our client, Elite Fireworks, as
this award really confirms what our client has been working towards for so
long, recognition that their product is not just innovative but will be
changing the pyrotechnics industry for many years to come” said Simon Blyth,
Director and Founder of LX Group upon receiving the award.
The QuickFire Pyrotechnics Firing System is the first firing
system in Australia to use ZigBee wireless mesh networking technology and can
fire manually, semi-automatically or automatically, either hardwired or
wirelessly. Communication between the devices is secure with encrypted data
transmitted with at a frequency of 2.4 GHz DSSS and with RF transmission
strategies. In addition to allowing control signals to be repeated across
multiple wireless firing units, signals can be rerouted the next available
firing unit instead of relying on one main transmitter. Some of the safety and
continuity features include:
• an intelligent automatic show
recovery function that can detect a system error and restart the controllers
within three tenths of a second – and then continue, in sync with the show, and
the soundtrack;
• enabling firing units to work
independently from the master unit, each firing unit holding local copies of
the firing instructions – eliminating firing delay and improving the
reliability of the show;
• constant heartbeat monitoring and
synchronisation – the wireless units remain in constant contact with the firing
unit – and will re-establish communications links if this is lost, firing the
next due cue, in sync with the show, and the soundtrack; and
• a dead-man switch that must be
held in by the operator for a show to continue.
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Contact:
More Information:
About Australian Anthill SMART 100
2013 Awards, visit http://anthillonline.com/quickfire-nsw-2013-anthill-smart-100/
Published by LX Group for itself and the LX Group of companies, including LX Design House, LX Solutions and LX Consulting, LX Innovations
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