Gautam

Novel Aquatech Pty Ltd is an NSW-headquartered technology company developing and commercialising a multi-tenant IoT monitoring platform that connects purpose-built sensor devices through a gateway-enabled hub-and-spoke architecture to a cloud-based SaaS application. The platform delivers real-time environmental and operational monitoring, rules-based alerting, and actionable insights to customers across agriculture, government facilities, and indoor air quality (IAQ) management. The talk will describe a few projects

#1: Grape farming in Victoria. The platform supports:

-        Irrigation management — Real-time soil moisture and weather data to optimise water use

-        Crop storage silo monitoring — Temperature and humidity tracking to protect harvest quality

-        Frost management — Automated alerts when field temperatures approach frost thresholds, enabling timely intervention

-        Remote equipment control — Turning on/off field equipment remotely via the platform, reducing manual site visits

#2: Remote Infrastructure Monitoring — TVH (Queensland)

Novel Aquatech's platform is being trialled by TVH (tvhs.com.au), a company with an Australia-wide footprint, for monitoring remote fuel and gas stations across Queensland. This deployment validates the platform's suitability for:

-        Monitoring distributed, unmanned infrastructure across large geographies

-        Providing centralised visibility into remote asset conditions

-        Reducing the need for costly manual inspections at isolated sites.

#3:  Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) — NSW Schools and Government Buildings

Novel Aquatech has developed and manufactured a purpose-built, low-cost IAQ sensor (the NovaSense IAQ) that is portable, WiFi and SIM-enabled, and produced in-house at a cost of approximately AU$150–200 per unit. A LoRa-enabled variant is currently under development.

The low unit cost and portability make this sensor highly attractive for large-scale rollouts across public infrastructure.

Biography:

Dr. Gautam Chattopadhyay is the director of Novel Aquatech Pty Ltd which was established in 2004 in Sydney, Australia. He has wide ranging experience in technology, engineering, research, project management and start up of new ventures. Domain expertise include heavy chemicals, iron and steel, engineering plastics, environmental management and tertiary education.
He managed all the laboratories of the Water Quality Laboratory (WQL) complex at UNSW, Sydney since 1997, which include several research laboratories, large instrumental analytical facilities, a pilot plant laboratory and several specialized facilities. During this time Gautam also established Novel Aquatech, which does consulting in environmental engineering, vocational training and created several e-commerce platforms in Australia and abroad. The company has a small software engineering practice. We are currently looking for multiple software engineers. The company initially focused on technology-enabled services and products in the environmental science and technology sector and has since diversified into three operating segments:

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