About Sh3d

Sh3d design and develop high-quality embedded systems for IoT and automation, specialising in remote monitoring and low-powered, long-life technology.

We design equipment and software from the ground up to be owned and managed by the client. Your device, your data.

We have expertise in satellite communication — including wave buoys deployed on sea-ice floes — and many decades of experience in automation, data management and data processing.

Scott Penrose

Scott lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.

Scott’s consulting includes hardware integration (embedded systems); tablet/phone development (Android and iOS); system development and automation; web development (servers, backend, database); and large-scale integration projects. His expertise as a software architect is ideal for projects that cross disciplines, architectures/platforms and programming languages.

Scott’s first job was with 6800 embedded CPUs in the early 90s. During the development of his solar-powered house in 2000 he fully automated the power and lighting throughout. He has continued hardware hacking on a casual basis — building musical toys, helping design a sophisticated glide computer, and designing and coding buoys to measure waves in Antarctic sea ice.

Scott worked with NIWA on sea-ice wave measurement from 2012 to 2021 (published in Nature) and went to Scott Base in Antarctica in November 2014 to test a new generation of buoys.

Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor is founder and principal of Unisolve, and brings extensive experience as a software developer, designer and consultant.

His particular areas of expertise are web-site and mobile-app development, graphic design, database analysis and integrating with 3rd-party ERP environments. Technologies include Python, Perl, PHP, C, Node.js, Apache, ExtJS/Sencha, jQuery, CSS, MySQL, REST and SOAP, Gimp/Photoshop and GNU/Linux.

Simon has a strong interest in computer vision — OpenCV, convolutional neural networks, image classification, custom object detectors and real-time video-stream analysis — along with hardware development on Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Intel Edison, BeagleBone, LoRa and LoRaWAN.

He has been associated with various non-profit groups including Melb Perl Mongers, the Open Source Developers’ Conference, ANZAAS and Humanity+ @Melbourne. In his private life, Simon enjoys his large and talkative family, is an avid reader, and hosts a weekly science show on Vision Australia Radio.