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LX Design House has been awarded Best in Design at the Electronic News 2012 Future Awards for the QuickFire Pyrotechnics Firing System

The winners of the Electronic News 2012 Future Awards were announced at ElectroneX on 12 September 2012. LX Design House was awarded Best in Design 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.

This is the third time that LX Group has won a major award at the Electronic News Future Awards. In 2010, LX Group was awarded winner in the Digital Home category with YellowBird ALERT, an emergency alert system and in 2009 was awarded overall winner for Best Project with the WMD3000, a device that monitors a user’s gym workout and provides feedback wirelessly.

The Electronics News Future Awards recognises and rewards electronic vision, design and development in the Australian electronics design industry.

“We’re truly humbled to receive this prestigious award. It means a lot to both our team members and our clients to have our design and engineering quality benchmarked against others and to come out with such affirmation of what we are striving towards at LX. In addition to this, we are all particularly excited for our client, Elite Fireworks, as this comes at a perfect time leading up to preparation to launch” 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 reestablish 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:

LX Group, Neala Fraser, Operations Manager, Tel: (02) 9209 4133 Email: neala.f@lx-group.com.au

More Information:

About LX Group, visit www.lx-group.com.au

About Electronic News 2012 Future Awards, visit http://www.electronicsnews.com.au/news/winners-of-the-2012-future-awards

About QuickFire Pyrotechnics Firing System, visit http://www.quick-fire.com.au/
Published by LX Group for itself and the LX Group of companies, including LX Design House, LX Solutions and LX Consulting, LX Innovations.

LX Design House has been recognised for its business innovation, passion and entrepreneurial prowess by being selected as a winner in the Australian Small Business Champion Awards (ASBC) 2012.

LX was named Australian Small Business Champion Entrepreneur in the Information Technology category. http://65.182.104.91/champions/forms/form_this_years_winners.aspx

Criteria to become a successful champion finalist included past business achievements, positive business culture, sustainability and future business vision.

The extraordinary calibre of this year’s finalists set the bar high and Simon Blyth, founder and director of LX, said the team at LX were “…thrilled to receive the ASBC award..it’s really great to be part of an Australian event that recognises the importance of business innovation in the fast-paced world of information technology.”

LX Group is a multi-award-winning Australian electronics design house specialising in wireless and low-power electronics designs. LX’s motto, “we take your concept and make it a reality”, reflects its passion for innovative electronic product development.

The Australian Small Business Champion Awards is a prestigious and comprehensive program that supports and recognises small businesses across Australia. The awards are the pinnacle of business success. They recognise the values associated with successful businesses.

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Contact:
LX Group, Neala Fraser, Operations Manager, Tel: (02) 9209 4133 Email: neala.f@lx-group.com.au

More Information:
About LX Group, visit www.lx-group.com.au
About Australian Small Business Champion Awards, visit www.precedent.net/champions

Published by LX Group for itself and the LX Group of companies, including LX Design House, LX Solutions and LX Consulting, LX Innovations.

IET Innovations Award – LX Group

IET, the London Institute of Engineering and Technology, has recognised LX Group’ pioneering design for the YellowBird ALERT (owned by Advance Alert Pty Ltd), by nominating it in two categories: Information Technology and Sustainability. The IET Innovation competition “…attracted entries from around the globe, demonstrating the innovation and imagination of engineers as they tackle their own local, economic and social challenges”

(http://conferences.theiet.org/innovation-awards/index.htm).

Innovation abounds at the IET Awards, and alongside YellowBird ALERT, innovative designs include smart metering, remote solar panel cleaning, ultra low power solar information transport and self healing electricity distribution networks.

YellowBird ALERT is an emergency alert system that warns of natural disasters. To date, YellowBird ALERT has won awards in the Future Electronics Awards and the National Resilience Award.

The competition has attracted entries from around the globe, from a gamut of organisations and corporation including Vodafone, British Telecommunications and Siemens Industrial, and universities including Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh. In the true spirit of technological innovation, LX Group is joined by many independent organisations from India through to America.
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LX Group, is an award winning Australian electronics design house with services that include software, firmware & hardware development, wireless and low power electronics designs. LX Group, offers clients a range of professional solutions designed to take a new product from concept to the product.
For more information about LX Group please visit www.lx-group.com.au or call 1800 810 124.

Published by LX Group for itself and the LX Group of companies, including LX Design House, LX Solutions and LX Consulting, LX Innovations.

PRLog (Press Release) – Oct 06, 2009 – The Electronics and Software Design House, LX Group, has been awarded the highest accolade of the EDN 2009 Innovation Awards for best overall project.

The EDN Australia Innovation Awards 2009, recognise and reward excellence in Australian electronics design, electronics test and electronics manufacture.

LX Group was placed against finalists including notable electronic and design companies such as Navico, UNSW and Sinclair Knight Merz, with projects such as solid state radar systems, autonomous rescue robots and a Solar Electric Trike.

LX Group was awarded the overall winner of the best project, across all categories, ahead of category winners from eight different categories which covered both electronics hardware and software.

In addition, LX Group was awarded first place in the best application of test/data acquisition category and a highly commended in the category of best application of RF wireless design.

“This is a great honour for us, a real tribute to our team,” said Simon Blyth, director of LX Group upon receiving the award.

LX Group is an electronics design house, specialising in the wireless and low power electronics designs. LX offers clients a range of professional solutions designed to take a new product idea from concept through to production.

LX Group electronics design house provide services including conceptual development, circuit design, PCB layout, firmware development, software development and electronics manufacturing.

LX Group Electronics and Software Design House, a proud recipient of the EDN Innovation Awards 2009 for best overall project.

For more information, please see www.lx-group.com.au or contact Kelly on (02) 9209 4133, kelly.b@lx-group.com.au .
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LX Group is an electronics design house, specialising in the wireless and low power electronics designs. LX Group offers clients a range of professional solutions designed to take a new product idea from concept through to production.

Published by LX Group for itself and the LX Group of companies, including LX Design House, LX Solutions and LX Consulting, LX Innovations.