The Victorian Government has released details of the IoT technologies that will be available to farmers participating in Victoria’s on-farm IoT trials. However it has yet to select suppliers of either these technologies or of the networking technology that will support the trials. The Victorian Government called for expressions of interest for its planned on-farm […]
CropLogic looks to bring IoT to cannabis growing
ASX-listed agricultural IoT company CropLogic (ASX: CLI) has appointed two consultants, Green Rush Advisory Group and Green Light Law Group, to advise on the application of its technology to the industrial hemp market in Oregon, USA, a market estimated to be worth $US22 billion by 2022. CropLogic says research from Grand View Research shows that […]
Food Agility readies $100m 10 year CRC bid
The consortium is headed by Mike Briers, an angel investor in agricultural IoT company, The Yield, and CEO and co-founder of the Knowledge Economy Institute (KEi), billed as ”the nation’s IoT research and innovation hub.” He was made Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia in the 2016 Queens Birthday Honours. Chair […]
Agricultural IoT forum in Sydney
Everything IoT is holding an Agriculture Tech Forum in Sydney on 14 July, promising to provide an in-depth examination of the state of agricultural technology in Australia and globally, drawing on the professional experiences of keynote speakers and panellists. Agriculture is almost universally agreed to be one of the sectors where Australia can take a […]
In search of “‘mainstream” IoT
Verizon has proclaimed 2015 as the year that IoT went mainstream, and received heaps of publicity for doing so. That proclamation is based on the findings of Verizon’s State of the Market: Internet of Things 2016 report and the changes Verizon found from when it prepared the earlier State of the Market: The Internet of […]
Cisco launches Sydney IoT innovation centre
Cisco has formally launched the second of its two Australian IoT Innovation Centres, both of which were announced at Cisco Live! In Melbourne in March 2015. However it is a very different beast from what was foreshadowed in that announcement, with a much greater range of partners likely to make it much more effective. Cisco […]
NNN Co calls for $800m LoRaWAN network for Australian agriculture
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 […]
Government gives agricultural IoT short shrift
The Federal Government has released a 152 page White Paper on the competitiveness of Australian agriculture. It gives agricultural IoT short shrift, making only passing reference to IoT, widely tipped to have huge potential to transform agriculture. UK based Beecham Research earlier this year issued a report, Towards Smart Farming, saying that M2M technologies and all the […]
From the Big Bang to big IoE
There may seem little connection between the Internet of Things/Everything and the search for answers on the origins of the Universe, so this begs the question: Why has Cisco chosen a team at Curtin University that is looking for such answers as one of its partner in the soon-to-established Cisco Internet of Everything innovation Centre? […]
