Adelaide-based Myriota, which is planning a network of nanosatellites for IoT applications, has teamed up with water pump maker Davey Water Products to offer AI based water tank monitoring for farmers. Myriota said the joint product would be the first mass market water-level sensor to be connected via its satellites and will assist farmers to […]
PSMA Australia API offers “unprecedented detail” of any Australian building
PSMA Australia — a government owned company created to provide access to geospatial data — is offering an API that, it says, enables software developers to incorporate “unprecedented detail’ about any building in Australia into their applications. “Following PSMA’s release of the national Geoscape dataset, which mapped every building across Australia in unprecedented detail, the […]
Emergency lights create LoRaWAN network for IoT
Sydney based WBS Technology is marketing an IoT system for commercial buildings based on networked, communications-enabled emergency lights. The lights communicate with each other and with sensors using 6LoWPAN and RPL protocols over LoRaWAN. These communicate with a cloud based platform via cellular and locally can be monitored and controlled from a smartphone via bluetooth. […]
Bigmate deploys Tibco Jaspersoft for IoT BI and reporting
Australian IoT service provider Bigmate has added Tibco’s Jaspersoft business intelligence and reporting software to its IoT platforms for vehicle telematics and for asset monitoring and management. Bigmate’s telematics platform provides real-time vehicle tracking and related features and has XML-based APIs for integration. Bigmate’s IoT platform, developed over the past two years, is designed for […]
Startup tackles health impacts of damp homes with IoT
New Zealand start-up Tether has developed a battery-powered monitoring system communicating via Sigfox able to detect and alert on the presence of damp, mould and noxious fumes in residential accommodation. It says at least half of New Zealand homes are affected by cold, damp and mould, and the country has some of the highest rates […]
Myriota promises first real-time direct-to-orbit IoT
Adelaide based startup Myriota has become the third satellites-for-IoT operator in the past month to launch its first nanosatellites and is differentiating itself by claiming to be building the world’s first real-time, 24/7 direct-to-orbit IoT platform. Myriota’s first satellite, named Brio and built by SpaceQuest in the US, was launched on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. […]
Fleet Space launches first IoT nanosatellites
Adelaide based satellite company Fleet Space Technologies has launched the first two of its planned fleet of 100 commercial nanosatellites and two demonstration satellites to test its communications technology. Its first commercial satellite, Centauri I, was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation and Centauri II by Space X. Its two experimental satellites, Proxima I […]
Goanna Ag taps NNNCo to bring IoT to cotton growers
Goanna Ag, a subsidiary of agricultural IoT company Discovery Ag, is to provide data gathering and analytics services to cotton growers using National Narrowband Network Company’s LoRaWAN network. NNNCo will expand its existing network to cover Goanna Ag’s service area of some three million hectares, stretching across Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area and the Murrumbidgee, Lachlan, Gwydir […]
Wireless network operator Field Solutions to add LoRaWAN
ASX-listed Field Solutions Group (ASX: FSG), which claims to Australia’s leading rural, remote and regional telecommunications service provider, has announced plans to add LoRaWAN base stations to every one of its radio towers. The move was announced by chairman Dr Ken Carr at the company’s AGM on 30 November. He said the company was working […]
New Zealand to get world’s largest virtual power grid
New Zealand company Solarcity is planning to connect 3000 homes that already have solar panels and storage batteries to the national grid. Solarcity, which no connection to the Tesla subsidiary with the same name, says the network will be the world’s largest virtual power plant. If all its customers were to participate it said their […]
