National Narrowband Network Communications (NNN Co), the startup planning a wireless network based on the LoRaWAN technology for connecting IoT devices, expects to start trials in August with a network of 10 base stations covering an area of 50-100 square kilometres on Sydney’s North Shore, and major customers across a number of IoT application markets. […]
Skills shortage to stymie uptake of IoT by Australian enterprises
Lack of the right skills in IT departments could stymie uptake of IoT by Australian enterprises, IT performance management company, SolarWinds, concludes after surveying 200 Australian IT decision makers. “The survey … highlights concern over a lack of IT skills, security issues and growing network complexity as the key challenges for organisations looking to adopt IoT […]
Korean startup N3N a poster child for Cisco Australian IoE Innovation Centre
Cisco invited South Korean startup N3N to the opening of its Perth IoE Innovation Centre and Cisco CTO Kevin Bloch says the company epitomises what Cisco hopes to achieve with the centre, and the possibilities of its fog computing architecture. N3N has developed software that allows an operator to view on a screen small low […]
CISRO set to join Cisco IoE Innovation Centre
The CSIRO looks set to join the Cisco IoE Innovation Centre in Australia, announced in March at Cisco’s partnership event, CiscoLive, and to be located at facilities in Sydney and Perth. The Premier of Western Australia, Colin Barnett, officially opened Cisco’s IoE Innovation Center hub in Perth, located on the Bentley Campus of Curtin University. […]
Startup planning Australian LoRaWan network
Australian startup company National Narrowband Network Communications is planning a dedicated low power wide area wireless network based on the LoRaWan standard for connecting IoT devices. The Australian LoRaWan network would be open to any organisation to use for its own IoT applications and devices and the company is looking to partner with Australia’s Government […]
Australian digital signage market growing and maturing
Frost & Sullivan sees the Australian digital signage market growing and maturing with a shift to specialist service providers and increasing integration with other technologies for marketing applications. F&S is forecasting a 13.9 percent annual growth rate in the Australian digital systems signage market by 2020. According to F&S’s Australian Digital Signage Systems Market 2015 […]
Eddy: smart home power control technology from CSIRO
Perth-based HabiDapt is commercialising Eddy: smart home power control technology from CSIRO that enables electricity usage to be monitored and controlled from a smartphone or tablet app simply by replacing the standard circuit breakers with smart metering devices or by plugging similar devices into standard power points. HabiDapt is trialling the technology, known as Eddy, […]
Australian wearables market tipped to hit $1b by 2018
Frost & Sullivan is forecasting a CAGR of approximately 78 percent for the Australian wearables market from 2014 to 2018 and is tipping annual revenues to reach $1 billion by 2018. It says growth will be fuelled by a combination of factors including innovation from local startups, high levels of activity in mergers and acquisitions […]
KEI: part think tank, part social enterprise
Chris Vein, chairman of the recently-launched Knowledge Economy Institute, in an interview with IoTAustralia, has provided more details of the institute, which is backed by data analytics provider Sirca, Bosch, Cisco, Rozetta Technology (wholly-owned by Sirca), Curtin University and the University of Tasmania. “In some senses it is a think tank on the traditional model, […]
Knowledge Economy Institute formed to help Australia exploit IoT
Sydney-based data analytics provider Sirca, Bosch, Cisco, Rozetta Technology, Curtin University and the University of Tasmania have teamed up to create the Knowledge Economy Institute (KEi) to help business, government and researchers solve complex problems, increase competitiveness and create jobs. The founding chairperson of the KEi is Chris Vein, the former CIO of the World […]
