2002 Winners

Yellow Pages® Business Ideas Grants program 2002 winners are from a diverse range of industries. You can read about them below, and visit the web sites of some for more information about their business.

2002 National winners

		National winner Mr Peter Searle - SSS Roof Scaffold The SSS Roof Scaffold is a simple, strong and safe system that allows tradespeople to work securely above any sloping roof surface. www.sssscaffold.com
		National e-Business Winner Mr Nigel Leck - Super-Tracker Super-Tracker is an online contact management and tracking system. It is a platform on which to build web-accessible programs. By using the Super-Tracker engine as the base, web applications can be built faster, cheaper and with very low risk. www.super-tracker.com.au
		National Runner-up Mr John Keady - Wheely-Ezy Wheely-Ezy addresses the problems associated with undoing wheel nuts in motor vehicles, making the process easier and reducing the risk of injury to the operator.
		Special Commendation Mr Michael Brophy - Hotbutt Welder The Hotbutt Welder is a unique application of butt fusion technology for joining small diameter polyethylene pipes. The welder is designed and developed for field use in the rural sector but also has other applications.

2002 State winners

Victoria
Mr Alec Umansky - Defence Communications Industry
Design of field deployable systems for defence and emergency communications over copper cable. Defence Communications Industry uses copper cable as broadband communications infrastructure for both voice and data communications. The resurrected copper is an alternative to expensive fibre optic networks.
www.users.bigpond.net.au/DCI

New South Wales
Mr Christopher Drake - ReadNotify.com (certified e-mail tracking)
ReadNotify.com provides certified e-mail receipt notification with tracking and a variety of other enhancements such as self-destructing and retractable e-mails.
www.readnotify.com

Ms Jayanthi Sundararaman - PathFinder@Work
PathFinder@Work is special purpose software that provides on-line mental health assessment, consultation and education for employees, in their own privacy and time, through a company's corporate intranet or extranet.

Queensland
Mr Graham Booth - Hedgehog Gutter Filter
Hedgehog Gutter Filter is an easy to install three dimensional gutter guard that allows water to flow into the gutters and prevents build up of leaves in the roof valleys.
www.thehedgehog.com.au

South Australia
Mr Barry Sexton - LPG Fuel Enhancer
The product improves the performance of LPG as a fuel for internal combustion engines used in private, commercial and industrial vehicles.

Western Australia / Northern Territory
Mr Christopher Speight - Smartaflow Chemical Metering System
Smartaflow is a new water disinfection system capable of overcoming inherent problems specific to the storing, decanting and metering of sodium hypochlorite (liquid chlorine).
www.smartaflow.com

Tasmania
Mr Andrew McCulloch and Ms Fleur McCulloch - MediTransfer
MediTransfer allows the majority of medical imagery such as CT scans, ultrasound and echocardiograms, to be packaged into a secure e-mail format and viewed by authorised personnel within a real time environment.

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