The conduct of Australia’s erstwhile, and first ever, minister for cities, Jamie Briggs has been anything but smart. Of more concern to the Australian public than the unsmartness of his personal conduct should be his lack of any focus on the smartness of Australia’s cities. When prime minister Malcolm Turnbull announced Briggs’ appointment in September, […]
Sigfox set to unveil Australian rollout plans
Sigfox, the French company with a proprietary low-powered wide area network technology for IoT and ambitious plans for networks worldwide, will detail its plans for Australia at a meeting of the IoE Community Sydney Meetup group on 18 November. Renald Gallis, VP Ecosystem & Marketing, Thinxtra will talk about the Sigfox network technology and its […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
EIU surveys Aussie M2M market
Telstra Wholesale has released a report commissioned from the Economist Intelligence Unit into the M2M market in Australia saying it reveals slow uptake of M2M in Australia. The report Land of Sweeping Change: Powering Australian Business Towards A Connected Future “assesses the landscape for M2M in Australia, in particular existing ‘gaps’ between the view of […]
Comms Alliance launches IoT Think Tank
Australia’s telecommunications industry body, Communications Alliance, has formed an Internet of Things think tank saying that the growth trajectory of IoT and its pervasive influence means that parts of Australia’s telecommunications regulatory framework may be rapidly overwhelmed or inhibit the national ability to reap the benefits of IoT. Via the think tank Communications Alliance says […]
