Safety and Industrial

In the modern, hybrid, post-COVID world, where a large percentage of office employees split their time between working in the office and working at home, understanding how spaces are used is more critical than ever. But traditional sensors often fall short, offering either “creepy” surveillance or inaccurate data.

When XY Sense needed to evolve their market-leading occupancy sensor, they turned to Outerspace to bridge the gap between high-compute AI and a discreet, manufacturable reality.

The brand new Area Pro sensor is the next-generation occupancy sensor for smarter, AI-driven offices. Designed to provide a better understanding of office spaces utilisation by employees.

As autonomous delivery shifts from idea to an everyday reality, getting a robot to navigate a sidewalk is one thing; but getting people to trust it is another. Teksbotics teamed up with us to create a delivery robot that feels approachable, not mechanical. The aim was simple: design something that works for everyone, regardless of age, and bridges the gap between advanced robotics and human interaction. Whether it’s sitting outside someone’s home or moving through a crowded street, the vehicle needed to feel safe, reliable, and easy to understand.

As China pushes harder into hydrogen-powered transport, the infrastructure behind it needs to keep up. Our client spotted a clear issue early on: while the tech itself was moving forward quickly, the dispensers still looked like old petrol pumps. They didn’t reflect the shift to cleaner energy. The brief was to create something more distinctive, something that felt modern and forward-looking, while still being practical to produce at scale across the country. Outerspace partnered with Hydrexia (Formerly Hyfun Energy) to make this dream a reality.

Outerspace’s multidisciplinary team worked with the managing director of LRM Technologies and researchers at DST Group, to design the 1mK thermal camera that quantifies the stresses that cause metal fatigue in aircraft. LRM, a distributor of lasers and thermal imaging cameras, own the licence to apply Defence Science and Technology group software to a thermal camera product idea. LRM’s managing director had a very clear idea about what the DST Group technology could achieve and needed a clear product roadmap to a successful physical product outcome. Outerspace collaborated with LRM and DST Group to clearly identify and plan the product format and pathway needed to create this revolutionary thermal camera.

Many communities in remote regions lack reliable access to clean drinking water, relying instead on unsafe or expensive systems. Water Source Australia set out to change this with Brolga, a remote-controlled micro water treatment plant designed to provide safe, continuous drinking water anywhere in the world.

Outerspace partnered with Water Source to take an early-stage prototype and transform it into a manufacturable product. Our role included developing the architecture, electronics, firmware, and mechanical systems, while working closely with Water Source’s software and water treatment experts. Together, we shaped a system capable of producing up to 30,000 litres of safe drinking water a day, suitable for installation in the toughest environments.

Farmers, agricultural businesses, and rural residents often struggle with poor internet coverage, limiting productivity, connectivity, and access to digital tools. Zetifi, a leader in rural connectivity solutions, wanted to expand their offering with a roaming WiFi hotspot device that could be vehicle-mounted, flexible, and robust enough to work in remote environments.

Outerspace partnered with Zetifi to refine and engineer this product into a manufacturable solution. Starting from Zetifi’s initial hardware outline, we worked collaboratively to define requirements, balance cost versus features, and create a system that could deliver reliable connectivity across a wide range of rural applications.

Global Kinetics set out to modernize their Personal KinetiGraph (PKG) smart watch — a device used to monitor Parkinson’s Disease tremors — to look and feel like an everyday wearable. The original version, essentially an accelerometer in a box, had evolved into a functional but clinical wrist-worn device. Global Kinetics needed a next-generation design that retained its powerful medical monitoring capabilities while removing the stigma of wearing an obvious medical device.

Outerspace partnered with Global Kinetics during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, navigating supply shortages and remote working challenges. By combining our expertise in medical device development, electronics, and industrial design, we helped transform the PKG watch into a discreet, smart, patient-friendly product ready for clinical and research applications.

We collaborated with Motium’s Director to update the design of a rugged touch panel personal computer for industrial vehicles. Motium serves large and small customers across multiple markets including marine, aircraft and industrial automation. They needed their panel PC to withstand extreme, rugged environments to an IP65 rating. The PC is installed in heavy duty work vehicles used in harsh conditions. We engineered the new Motium touch panel PC to be extremely tough with high level ingress and drop protection.

Working directly with the managing director of AML3D, we helped to define how the module would look and integrate into the existing additive manufacturing production line.

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