It seems that everyday some company or other is trying to stamp its mark on the market with a new Internet of ‘something’. A few years ago Cisco came up with the idea of the Internet of Everything and has done a great job of getting the concept into common parlance. Now Ericsson has casually […]
Fujitsu brings GlobeRanger IoT iMotion Edgeware to ANZ
Fujitsu said last week that it had established support capability in Australia and New Zealand for the “groundbreaking” GlobeRanger IoT iMotion Edgeware management platform. iMotion Edgeware might be new to Australia but it is far from new and any ground it broke was over a decade ago, because that’s how long iMotion and Edgeware have been around. […]
Look to dark data from IoT for business transformation, says SAP
Gartner defines dark data as “the information assets organisations collect, process and store during regular business activities, but generally fail to use for other purposes (for example, analytics, business relationships and direct monetising).” The concept has been around for a few years now. This 2013 article in Forbes Magazine touted the potential of dark data. […]
How subscription services can monetise IoT
The world of IoT has been closely linked to the development of a service economy: in a world where everything is connected, monitored and spitting out data you can charge for its usage rather than selling it and forgetting about it. Ericsson has taken this concept one step further positing the emergence of an experience […]
Telstra chair says policy not fit for IoT era, but gets her facts wrong
Catherine Livingstone, chair of the Business Council of Australia, has joined the ranks of those heralding the Internet of Things as a bigger force for disruption than the Internet, in an address to the National Press Club, an edited version of which appeared in the Financial Review. (Livingstone is also chair of Telstra, but the […]
The Internet of Things should be a politician’s best friend
Last month Intel Australia sponsored a National Summit on the Internet of Things in Canberra. A common theme emerged from the event: that, like all governments, Australia stands to benefit enormously from all IoT has to offer. Aside from to the “wow” factor of smart coffeepots, cars and thermostats, IoT has the potential to achieve […]
Wellness, wearables and the quantified self
There have been countless studies that have sought to assess, objectively, the health of populations, now Ericsson has undertaken a comprehensive study to determine individuals’—totally subjective—assessments of their own ‘wellness’ and to link this to their attitudes towards wearables, self-quantification and the Internet as aids to health and wellbeing. The findings are reported in an […]
What’s the Australian Government’s role in IoT?
Brian McCarson, Intel’s chief IoT architect ended his talk at the AIIA IoT conference in Canberra last month with some advice for Australia. “My simple observations for any geography, but especially Australia, is that there are three things that need to be done to help IoT become a major economic driving force for this country,” […]
Microsoft impresses Ovum with Azure IoT Services
When Microsoft held a press briefing in Australia recently to promote its IoT expertise, I and others present were fairly unimpressed with what Microsoft presented as an IoT customer implementation. However after being briefed on Microsoft’s IoT strategy Ovum has come away lauding it, especially the just launched Azure IoT Services. Ovum analyst, Adrian Ho, […]
How Cisco aims to profit from IoT/IoE
Cisco has been pushing the concept of the Internet of Everything for some time. It is investing millions of dollars into IoE Innovation Centres around the world, most recently in Australia, but how does it plan to profit from IoE, other than from selling the networking gear needed to connect billions of devices? Cisco ANZ […]
