Diversified Japanese multinational Hitachi has unveiled a plan to triple its Australian revenues in five years, largely by exploiting IoT technologies and applications. The plan was unveiled by Hitachi’s president and CEO, Toshiaki Higashihara, to a capacity audience at Hitachi’s Social Innovation Forum in Sydney – an annual global event staged in Australia for the […]
Spotless gets into smart metering to exploit ‘Power of Choice’
ASX listed Spotless – which provides a diverse range of services – has launched smart metering service provider Spotless Advanced Metering (SAM) to take advantage of new legislation that shifts responsibility for metering of energy supply from network operator to retailer and gives large customers the option of appointing their own metering service provider. SAM […]
CSIRO maps out Australia’s advanced manufacturing future
The CSIRO has released a roadmap on advanced manufacturing, that sets out a vision to transform Australia’s manufacturing industry over the next 20 years into a “highly integrated, collaborative and export-focused ecosystem that provides high-value customised solutions within global value chains.” It says that, under this vision: Australian manufacturers will be more customer and export-focussed, […]
IoT Alliance Australia now complete: board members named
Almost a year since it was initiated and four months since it was formally brought into being the IoT Alliance Australia is now complete with the announcement of its board. IoTAA was incorporated as a not-for-profit entity in July 2016. It emerged from the Communications Alliance IoT Think Tank, established in 2015. IoTAA is hosted […]
NetComm Wireless sharpens R&D focus with new engineering group
Australian wireless M2M equipment manufacturer, NetComm Wireless (ASX: NTC), has announced a restructure of its engineering group and the appointment of Sergio Berriz to the newly created position of senior vice president engineering, reporting to managing director and CEO David Stewart. NetComm Wireless said it had restructured its engineering activities into two key areas to […]
Telstra’s smart home products go on sale
Telstra has launched its range of Smart Home products, announced in June. Products available include motion sensors, cameras, light bulbs, a thermostat, smart power plugs and a smart door lock all of which communicate through Telstra’s Smart Home platform, which is based on a product from US manufacturer Icontrol and which has since been acquired […]
South Australia Govt backs state-wide Sigfox rollout
The South Australian Government, through Investment Attraction South Australia is to accelerate and expand the rollout of Thinxtra’s Sigfox low-powered wide area network for IoT in the state. Thinxtra, Sigfox’s Australian licensee, aims to have a Sigfox network covering 85 percent of the Australian population by the end of 2018. Earlier this month it announced […]
Launceston to get LoRaWAN network
Tasmania’s minister for IT and Innovation, Michael Ferguson, has announced a plan to provide a Launceston-wide LoRaWAN network at a cost of $100,000, with the gateways and devices to be manufactured by local company Definium. Other partners in the project are the University of Tasmania, the CSIRO and Sense-T — the long running Tasmanian IoT […]
NZ Government gets smart about agriculture
The New Zealand Government is creating a technical advisory group to advise the Ministry of Primary Industries on how to accelerate the use of smart agriculture technology. The announcement was made jointly by primary industries minister, Nathan Guy, and communications minister, Amy Adams, with Guy saying: “Technology has major potential to support higher productivity and […]
Smart entertainment, not smart home driving consumer IoT says Deloitte
According to Deloitte’s Mobile Consumer Survey, for the second year running the connected smart entertainment device market has been the primary driver of growth in the consumer IoT market. Deloitte says just under 30 percent of Australians own smart TVs or gaming consoles, but there has been zero growth in the connected home device market […]
