South Australian satellite IoT company Myriota is to provide IoT communications for the South Australian Government’s planned SASAT1 low earth orbit satellite. South Australian premier, Steven Marshall announced SASAT1 on 20 January, describing it as $6.5m project that would provide information to improve state services such as, emergency services, the environment, water quality monitoring, mining […]
eSat Global set to launch geosat based IoT network
eSat Global, which is planning to operate a low bit rate geosat based IoT network using existing geostationary satellites has revealed details of pricing. eSat Global’s recently appointed CEO, Rick Somerton told IoTAustralia the service would likely cost between $US5 and $US10 per annum per device for 10 messages per day of 12 bytes each. […]
eSAT Global to provide IoT satcomms for Transport Genie
eSAT Global — a US company planning to use existing geostationary satellites to provide communication for IoT applications — has formed a partnership with Canadian company Transport Genie under which eSAT Global will provide connectivity for Transport Genie’s system for the monitoring of livestock in transit. Initially the two companies will conduct large scale field […]
NNNCo to distribute Sensoterra soil moisture probes
NNNCo has teamed up with Dutch manufacturer of wireless soil moisture sensors Sensoterra to bring its products to the Asia Pacific. Sensoterra’s LoRaWAN soil moisture probes are available on the LoRAWAN AS923 band (923MHZ) enabling the devices to work on LoRaWAN networks across Australia and Asia Pacific. An NNNCo spokesperson told IoTAustralia the company had […]
NNNCo wins Vic Government ag IoT network contract
The Victorian Government has awarded NNNCo the contract to provide connectivity for its planned trials of IoT in agriculture. NNNCo will provide a LoRaWAN network connectivity for Victoria’s on-farm IoT trial for 600 farms over an area of 5,000 square kilometres in the regions surrounding Maffra, Tatura, Serpentine and Birchip. In July 2019 the Government […]
NNNCo scores WA Gov Agtech LoRaWAN network
National Narrowband Network Co (NNNCo) has been awarded a tender to install and maintain a LoRaWAN network and IoT sensors at the Western Australian Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development research facilities in Katanning and Merredin in the Grainbelt. The networks will be used for to collect data from a wide range of sensors […]
Cisco invests in agtech IoT platform partner Titan Class
Cisco has made an unspecified investment in Australian agricultural IoT company Titan Class with which it has co-developed an IoT decision support platform for farmers, eXtensible Decision Platform (xDP) incorporating Streambed, an open source event-first microservice toolkit for IoT services, also co-developed by Titan Class and Cisco. According to Cisco, XDP enables farmers to easily […]
Ceres Tag teams with Globalstar to trial cattle monitoring
Ceres Tag, an Australian company that has developed a smart ear tag for monitoring cattle, has formed a partnership with US based satellite operator Globalstar to conduct the final stages of large-scale commercial trials of its technology for the provenance and management of livestock. Globalstar said the trials would be a significant scale extension of […]
Victorian Government calls for on-farm IoT trialists
The Victorian Government has called for expressions of interest for its planned on-farm trials of IoT, part of its $45 million Connecting Victoria initiative to improve digital technology and infrastructure across regional Victoria. In the first round of the trials grants of up to $30,000 will be available to up to 600 eligible applicants in the […]
Agriculture IoT projects score $0.5m WA Govt grants
The WA Government has awarded fifteen agricultural IoT project grants totalling almost $583,000 under the eConnected Grainbelt Project’s new WA IoT DecisionAg Grant Program. The program contains three components which seek to investigate: – effective on-farm connectivity solutions to support IoT applications and devices; – the use of IoT applications and devices to support on-farm […]
