At its recent EMEA IT Spotlight event NetEvents held a debate entitled They’re Everywhere! Managing the Incredible Explosion of IoT and IIoT Devices. Lionel Snell, editor at NetEvents reports on the outcome. There has been, and there will continue to be, a whole lot of discussion in ITC circles about how to manage the explosion […]
Data sharing: smart, or too personal? (Part 2)
Data governance is not an easy concept to get your head around. However, it’s a key to not only smart cities, but also to our own privacy. And privacy — including our data privacy — is dear to most people. In my earlier interview with Dr Ian Oppermann, we dig further into how data sharing […]
Data sharing: smart, or too personal?
The second part of my interview with Dr Ian Oppermann, chief data scientist of NSW, covers issues around the individual’s right to privacy, the transparency of the government’s data sharing process & related areas. To be honest, each of these subjects would warrant a substantial article. Hopefully, these snippets prove interesting enough for some of […]
Smart cities: smart data and smart governance
Dr Ian Oppermann is the NSW Government’s chief data scientist and CEO of the NSW Data Analytics Centre. Ian is a thought leader in the digital economy and is a regular speaker on big data and the impact of technology on society. Data governance, or data sharing policy, is fundamental to smart city strategies. I […]
IoT missing in action in DXC digital transformation study
DXC Technology has published a study Beyond Disruption: Australian organisations race to digital transformation success. It underestimates the role of IoT in digital disruption. To produce the report DXC’s Australian subsidiary, Telsyte, surveyed 447 business and IT decision makers across Australian organisations to gather their views on the impacts and opportunities of digital disruption. The […]
Smart cities & open data: who will the winners be?
Harbor Research has published a white paper The Future of Open Data in Smart Cities. It does not put the giants of IT in pole position to capitalise. The title does not really do justice the contents: the paper argues that the complexities of advanced smart city applications will require new data architectures and drive the […]
When Society 4.0 meets Industry 4.0
Swinburne University and Amazon Web Services are collaborating to help understand, and anticipate, the societal impacts of Industry 4.0, aka Society 4.0. Last week, at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit in Sydney, Swinburne deputy vice-chancellor (R&D), professor Aleksandar Subic and Vincent Quah, APAC regional head for education, research and not-for-profit, Worldwide Public Sector, at […]
Sydney University startup looks to automate farming
A new startup spun out of the University of Sydney is looking to capitalise on a growing workforce shortage in agriculture, worldwide. Put “aging agricultural workforce” into a Google search and you will come up with no end of ominous headlines, such as this one: “Farming on the verge of a workforce crisis”, from Deloitte […]
Security in the city: an essential guide to IoT safety
These numbers appear incredible until we start to consider the volume of IoT devices that will drive smart streetlights, water, power metering, parking, padlock solutions and the myriad of other use cases that will impact, and indeed be critical, to the operation of cities in the future. Use cases will increasingly become part of a […]
Fair weather forecasts from Vodafone IoT Barometer
Vodafone has released its IoT Barometer for 2019, its sixth. The Barometer is full of good news about IoT, but it’s hard to believe that the “1,430 qualified respondents involved in shaping their company’s IoT strategy,” surveyed did not face a few hurdles. The Barometer is certainly a useful and valuable document that will likely boost […]
