WireAlert, an Australian electrical safety sensor invention has scooped the Best Business Product award and Product Innovation award at the 2010 Australian Business Awards.
A pioneering safety sensor, WireAlert plugs into a power point in the home or workplace and runs a diagnostic test, with certain unsafe electrical wiring conditions inside or outside the house triggering an alarm.
The WireAlert sensor has already been distributed free to over 200,000 Tasmanian households, funded by local energy provider Aurora Energy, and discussions are currently underway with energy distributors across Australia regarding rollouts to their customers.
Mr Greg Mannion, CEO of WireAlert, said, “We’re proud to receive this endorsement from the Australian Business Awards, which reinforces WireAlert’s potential to save lives and improve household safety.
“The challenge with electrical faults is they’re invisible and rarely front of mind, but like smoke alarms, seatbelts and bike helmets we think this life-saving device is so important everyone in Australia should have one.
“To date these devices have already detected 101 potential electric shock conditions, 620 potential fires and 1168 other electrical safety issues in Tasmanian homes – imagine how many potentially dangerous situations could be avoided if WireAlert was rolled out nationally” Mr Mannion concluded.
Wire Alert was one of 105 Australian Business Award recipients from a total of 1849 separate entries across 962 organisations nationwide.
The Australian Business Awards is a national program honouring organisations that demonstrate the core values of business excellence, product excellence, sustainability and commercial success in their respective industries through an established series of business and product award categories.