KPMG Australia has launched two IoT initiatives: the first IoT LoRaWAN gateway for Melbourne’s Docklands, and a suite of cyber security IoT products to support the development of smart cities.
They were launched at an event in Melbourne at which the IoT Alliance Australia and Communications Alliance launched their IoT Security Guideline.
The LoRaWAN gateway has been installed at KPMG’s new Collins Square office. KPMG says it will support up to 1,000 connected devices within a three to five kilometre radius. It said a similar gateway installed last year in Sydney’s Barangaroo precinct — where its Sydney office is located — recorded over 32,000 instances of data in the first two months of 2017.
Piers Hogarth-Scott, National IoT Practice Leader for KPMG, said the Sydney gateway had supported a wide variety of IoT use cases, from monitoring bin levels to making parking more efficient.
KPMG’s IoT security suite focuses on IoT for smart cities and is “designed to ensure that cities and their infrastructure are safe, secure and trusted, and in doing so help Australian cities unlock significant economic benefits from innovation in the Internet of Things,” KPMG said.
KPMG ‘s Cyber Practice partner, Gordon Archibald, said the successful adoption of IoT and the transformation of cities required a robust approach to cyber security, privacy and trust.
KPMG has more than 100 experts in Australia specialising in cyber. The launch of our IoT cyber security product suite is designed to enable smart cities to prepare, protect and recover, and in doing so enable cities, transport and infrastructure to tap into the significant transformative and economic benefits from the Internet of Things.”
The suite includes
Smart City Prepare
To help cities ensure that cyber security, legal and privacy compliance, considerations are embedded into the design of their connected infrastructure and their smart citizen services.
Smart City Identity
To help smart cities architect and deploy identity solutions for enabling secure access.
Smart City Protect
To assist in the assessment of smart-city infrastructure for IoT risks, threats and vulnerabilities and to provide strategies for protection of critical services, citizens and their data from cybersecurity threats.
Smart City Recover
To help smart cities respond to IoT security incidents, investigate cyber-attacks and manage crisis response.
