Best Power and Energy or Electrical Engineering Project

Sponsored by: Electric Energy Society of Australia

School: School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Recognising excellence in energy systems, power electronics, and electrical engineering, sponsored by the Electric Energy Society of Australia.

FPGA Firewall for Network Security

by  Joshua Pinti

Supervisor(s): Matthew D'Souza

Over 20 billion IoT devices are expected by 2025, many of them unpatched and exposed to network attacks. This project implements a hardware firewall directly in FPGA fabric to filter TCP and UDP packets, offloading packet inspection from the processor.

Storage Locker Monitoring

by  Jeremy Tatham

Supervisor(s): Matthew D'Souza

Storage lockers are widely used for secure storage in workplaces, universities, and parcel delivery systems, but current monitoring methods are costly and ineffective at detecting unauthorised access or environmental risks. This project develops a wireless, low-power locker monitoring system using sensors for temperature,humidity,CO2,and light to detect access events and track climatic conditions.