LoRaWAN customers of New Zealand telco Spark and Australian LoRaWAN network operator the National Narrowband Network Co (NNNCo) will have access to both networks under a LoRaWAN roaming agreement struck between the two companies. The wholesale arrangement has been enabled with the integration of NNNCo’s enterprise data platform N2N-DL into Spark NZ’s network core. […]
Software AG partners with BSA on IoT for building management
Software AG is partnering with ASX-listed asset management and technical services company BSA (ASX: BSA) to provide IoT based building management technology to the global market. Software AG said it had been collaborating with BSA on the project, the Cumulocity Building management solution, since early 2019. Some details were revealed in a Software AG customer […]
Catch.com.au gets 100+ autonomous mobile robots
Online retailer and Wesfarmers subsidiary Catch Group is set to deploy more than 100 autonomous mobile robots from Körber Supply Chain at its distribution centre in Truganina, Victoria. Körber Supply Chain (formerly Cohesio Group) says this will be the largest deployment of autonomous mobile robots for an e-commerce marketplace in Australia and New Zealand. Deployment […]
Optus offers Nokia’s Impact IoT platform
Optus has selected Nokia’s Impact IoT platform to provide device management and data collection capabilities to its customers, to be marketed jointly with Nokia. Nokia’ says its Impact device management platform will enable Optus to provide its customers with simple access to NB-IoT device data, from low power devices, and remote device management at scale, […]
Spark targets NZ IoT market
NZ telco Spark has released a new three year strategy flagging the NZ IoT market as one of three future growth markets it will focus on, along with digital health and sport. By FY23 it aims to generate revenue of $NZ80m – $NZ90m from these three markets, and by By 2023 it aims to have […]
NZ grad school offers postgraduate certification in IoT
New Zealand telco Spark has partnered with the Tech Futures Lab – a private graduate school — to create a Postgraduate Certificate in Connected Environments. They say the partnership “will give students first-hand experience in the IoT industry, with access, insight and in-depth knowledge in a bid to increase the adoption of IoT in New […]
Dense Air promises to boost NZ mobile coverage for IoT
“Carrier neutral’ mobile network operator Dense Air has selected Kordia to provide its Network operations centre and logistics and field engineering support in New Zealand. Dense Air uses its own licenced spectrum and cell sites to provide cellular network coverage to other operators where there is congestion of poor coverage. It says its services complement […]
Vodafone NZ launches Connect by xone IoT management service
Vodafone New Zealand has launched an IoT devices management service, Connect by xone, to give businesses visibility and control their IoT assets. The service, Connect by xone, is a localised version of the Global Data Service Platform (GDSP), operated by the UK based Vodafone Group. According to Vodafone NZ it “provides key in-country functionality to […]
Smart building network developer Cognian forges new partnerships
Australian company Cognian Technologies, which has developed a proprietary wireless mesh technology to support IoT devices and applications in buildings, has formed partnerships with Microsoft, Mirvac, Barhead (an Australian consultancy that develops solutions based on Microsoft technology) and Australian IoT platform developer Reekoh. Cognian claims its Syncromesh Smart Canopy as a Service (SCaaS) system facilitates […]
SmartSat CRC joins with NASA to develop satcoms for disasters
Australian space research centre, the Smart Satellite Cooperative Research Centre (SmartSat CRC) is to collaborate with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre to advance satellite communications for disaster communications. The SmartSat CRC says the collaboration will help to build Australia’s space industry by developing leading edge technology and expertise with the Australian partners in the project: […]
