The Victorian Government has released details of the IoT technologies that will be available to farmers participating in Victoria’s on-farm IoT trials. However it has yet to select suppliers of either these technologies or of the networking technology that will support the trials. The Victorian Government called for expressions of interest for its planned on-farm […]
Smart sensor maker Movus moves forward following funding
Queensland based industrial IoT sensor manufacturer Movus says it has expanded its business around the world and scored some big name customer wins, 12 months on from securing $4.8m in Series A funding from Blackbird Ventures, Telstra Ventures and Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar’s private investment fund Skip Capital. The company says it has increased staff […]
Victorian Government calls for on-farm IoT trialists
The Victorian Government has called for expressions of interest for its planned on-farm trials of IoT, part of its $45 million Connecting Victoria initiative to improve digital technology and infrastructure across regional Victoria. In the first round of the trials grants of up to $30,000 will be available to up to 600 eligible applicants in the […]
Tasmanian Government pumps $150K into energy & IoT accelerator
The Tasmanian Liberal Government is to invest $150,000 into an energy and IoT startup accelerator to be led by EnergyLab. Minister for Science and Technology, Michael Ferguson, said the funding would support local tech start-ups to develop their ideas, guide them over the hurdles of creating innovative products, and take their concepts to market. “It […]
Future Fund backs US energy harvesting startup
The Australian Government’s Future Fund has become the lead investor in a $US30m funding round for Santa Clara based EverActive (formerly PsiKick) which has developing energy harvesting technology to power IoT devices. (The new name may not have been the best choice: it is shared by a Polish battery manufacturer) Other new investors were Blue […]
Canterbury Bankstown stages future street demo
The council of Canterbury Bankstown in Sydney’s west is staging a future street demonstration to show how smart technology interacts with landscape and design. The future street, in the plaza between North Terrace and Bankstown station, has a display of Wi-Fi equipped smart benches, solar powered bins, e-scooters and e-bikes on display. Planning and design […]
Simble scores energy management deal for UK bus depots
ASX listed IoT company, Simble Solutions (ASX: SIS) has scored a contract to provide its energy analytics solution to RATP Dev London, which operates a fleet of 1100 buses in and around the capital on behalf of Transport for London. Simble’s SimbleSense platform will be deployed across RATP’s 13 operational garages and maintenance depots by […]
New Zealand budget gives Industry 4.0 a $NZ6.8m boost
The New Zealand Government’s ‘Wellbeing Budget’ unveiled on 30 May has allocated $NZ6.8m to fund the creation of an Industry 4.0 demonstration network with, up to, two smart factories to prepare New Zealand industry for the future. The budget papers said the money — $NZ6.2m in operating costs and $NZ0.6m in capital funding — would provide […]
Definium Technologies to build Tasmania-wide LoRaWAN network
Tasmanian LoRaWAN specialist Definium Technologies is planning to roll out a Tasmania-wide LoRaWAN network, after building one in Launceston in conjunction with others. Tasmanian newspaper The Examinerreports that Definium plans to have 50 LoRaWAN base stations installed by July 25 and 100 by Christmas, giving it coverage of 90 percent of the population. The paper said […]
Investors pump $24m into ‘Wi-Fi for IoT’ startup Morse Micro
Sydney based startup Morse Micro which is developing chipsets for the ‘low-power’ Wi-Fi standard IEEE 802.11ah (aka HaLow) has secured Series A funding of $23.8m from a range of investors. HaLow has been designed for IoT applications. Access points consume much less power than other variants, can provide throughputs in multiple megabits per second and […]
