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Brisbane R&D startup Cool Door wins iAward from AIIA

Tony Chan | August 10, 2010 | 0 Comments

PRESS RELEASE: Brisbane R&D startup Cool Door Pty Ltd has won a prestigious iAward at the Australian IT industry’s biggest annual awards event in Melbourne last week.

The Cool Door is an energy efficient cooling solution for data centres invented by Brisbane bayside residents Bernie Gee and Shaun Vosper.

The mens’ invention took out the Tools and Infrastructure iAward for Queensland at the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) event held in Brisbane in July and on 5 August the Cool Door was named national winner in the same field at a prestigious event at Melbourne’s Crown Casino.

The Cool Door is now headed for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to compete in the Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) awards.

The win is a dream come true for the Brisbane men, who combined their backgrounds in refrigeration and data centre operations to invent the refrigerated door.

The Cool Door fits to the front of a server rack and reuses energy from the fans of the servers operating in the rack to draw cool air from the door across the servers, cooling them at a fraction of the cost of some other data centre cooling methods. The cool environment allows up to four times more servers – 20kW or more when 5kW is more the norm – to be housed in the rack.

Judges were impressed by the simple and effective solution, which runs on single phase power and has the potential to significantly increase the capacity and prolong the life of a data centre.

The men are now consolidating plans to market the Cool Door beyond Queensland and have several expressions of interest from around Australia and the USA.

“Winning at the iAwards gives us industry recognition, which is so important when you’re a young company, and helps to give us a fantastic platform to get out and spread the word about the Cool Door,” Wynnum’s Bernie Gee said.

Shaun Vosper, from bayside Lota, where the early work on Cool Door was carried out said he was ‘over the moon.’

“A little idea from two family men has been recognised as important and worthy of the attention of some of the country’s finest IT minds, so to say we’re excited right now is an understatement,” Mr Vosper said.

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