National Narrowband Network Company (NNN Co) — which is rolling out is own low power wide area network for IoT based on the LoRaWAN technology — is calling on the Government to spend $800m to build a LoRaWAN network covering 2.5m square kilometres to support IoT applications for Australian agriculture. It argues that If the […]
Proximity based marketing courtesy of Fujitsu and iProxmity
Remember in the movie ‘Minority Report’ how display adverts personalised themselves to Tom Cruise’s character has he walked through the shopping mall? Well something pretty close to that is coming to Australia – thanks to a tie up between Fujitsu and Australia and digital display technology, iProximity, for proximity based marketing. The two companies have formed […]
NetComm Wireless scores a role in Arrow IoT gateways
Australian manufacturer of wireless M2M devices, NetComm Wireless, is collaborating with US company Arrow Electronics to provide what it says will be the market’s first intelligent gateway. Arrow Intelligent Gateways will be launched as the first part of a new framework that will provide off-the-shelf management capabilities for a number of product categories. The technology […]
Australia leads global IoE reference architecture project
The Australian IoE community has kicked of a plan to develop an IoE reference architecture that will provide a practical framework for the implementation of IoE systems, and it has already garnered support for the idea from around the world. The planned architecture is an initiative of Peter Klement, a business technology consultant who, along […]
Comms Alliance calls for national Australian IoT strategy
The think tank was formed in May with the aim of helping to remove barriers to IoT and enable Australia to realise the full potential of IoT. Details of the draft report were presented to a Comms Alliance industry and stakeholder workshop in Sydney, which heard that the government could be receptive to an industry-led […]
Could South East Queensland become the world’s first smart region?
Cisco has released a study into the application of smart city technologies and systems to South East Queensland, saying the area has the potential to become the world’s first smart region, adding 30,000 jobs and $10b to its economy “in the coming years”. The report, South East Queensland: A Smart Region, does not detail how […]
Australian household spending on IoT to reach $300 per year per household by 2019
Research firm Telsyte is forecasting that annual Australian household spending on IoT home products and services will reach $3.2b in 2019, an eleven-fold increase from $289m in 2015, and that does not include personal IoT devices and services like Fitbits. There are about 10 million households in Australia today and the ABS estimates there will […]
Australia lagging on smart homes and smart cities
Australia is lagging behind many nations in the application of IoT to both smart homes and smart cities, and leadership needs to come from the Government, says Frost & Sullivan. The research company is preparing to publish, later this year, separate reports on smart cities and smart homes and according to Audrey William, head of […]
Sensus & BAI bring FlexNet smart metering network to Australia
US based Sensus — which has developed a proprietary long-range radio technology for smart metering — has partnered with BAI (formerly Broadcast Australia) to provide smart metering services to Australian utilities. BAI operates an Australia-wide network of radio towers (many of them supporting Australia’s mobile radio networks) that would be used to locate the base […]
PooledEnergy: managing your pool, your power and the grid with IoT
Sydney-based startup, PooledEnergy, has spent over five years and $8m developing a system that manages domestic swimming pools, power consumption and, it hopes, grid power in the areas it serves, using IoT technologies. The company’s offer to homeowners is that it will become their electricity supplier and will take over management of their swimming pool. […]
