The Mozilla Foundation has launched WebThings, an open IoT platform for monitoring and controlling devices over the web. It describes WebThings as “a collection of re-usable software components to help you build your own web things, which directly expose the Web Thing API.” This means they can be discovered by a Web of Things gateway or […]
Optus offers Nokia’s Impact IoT platform
Optus has selected Nokia’s Impact IoT platform to provide device management and data collection capabilities to its customers, to be marketed jointly with Nokia. Nokia’ says its Impact device management platform will enable Optus to provide its customers with simple access to NB-IoT device data, from low power devices, and remote device management at scale, […]
Orange Business Services IoT enables McConnell Dowell construction sites
Orange Business Services has developed an IoT system for Australian construction company McConnell Dowell to gather data from heavy machinery and other assets to boost operational efficiency and reduce costs. Orange Business Services says it created an IoT platform to collect, report and visualise real-time information over a private LoRaWAN network to digitise manual and paper-centric […]
Sensavation debuts low-code IoT development platform
Brisbane-based startup Sensavation has a developed low-code IoT development platform designed to facilitate the development of custom IoT applications and dashboards. Low-code development platforms, according to Wikipedia, enable less experienced developers to create application software through graphical user interfaces and configuration instead of traditional hand-coded programming. Wikipedia says the name was coined by Forrester in […]
Bega Cheese to deploy Cumulocity to IoT enable supply chain
Australian dairy products manufacturer, Bega Cheese will deploy Cumulocity, Software AG’s IoT platform, to build an IoT service linking supplier farms, milk transport storage and processing facilities, in conjunction with Swinburne University of Technology. The system will provide real time data on milk production at farmer suppliers including volumes, temperature, quality composition, and transport conditions. […]
Quantum Integration to challenge Arduino’s role in IoT
US based tech startup entrepreneur Michael Barnick has launched a company, Quantum Integration to challenge the Arduino’s role in IoT. Arduino is a small open source microcontroller module and software produced by the company of the same name, and many others. It can be programmed in C and C++ and is widely used for controlling […]
QTRS monitors refrigerated trucks with Cumulocity
Victoria based Quality Transport Refrigeration Services (QTRS) is to use Software AG’s Cumulocity IoT platform to monitor refrigerated food trucks throughout Australia. QTRS has developed its own telematics system, Mitsi Track, for Mitsubishi vehicle mounted refrigeration units to provide detailed, real-time information on unit performance. It uses the data gathered to improve proactive and predictive […]
Telstra & Software AG expand Cumulocity IoT platform relationship
Telstra has signed a three-year contract with Software AG under which it will expand the functionality of its IoT offerings based on Software AG’s Cumulocity IoT platform using Software AG’s Apama streaming analytics and machine learning products. Telstra expects to offer additional features, co-developed with Software AG, during 2020. The latest initiative follows Telstra and […]
Watson IoT: IBM’s AI enabled IoT platform
IBM’s Watson IoT business unit recently held an IoT Exchange in Sydney, comprising separate ‘academies’ focussing on Watson IoT’s role in enterprise asset management (Maximo), real estate/facilities management (Tririga) and engineering lifecycle management (Engineering). IoT Australia caught up with Kareem Yusuf, general manager of IBM’s Watson IoT business unit and Joe Berti, vice president offering […]
Reekoh expands its IoT platform capabilities
Australian IoT platform developer Reekoh has added a number of data integration tools that it says will deliver considerable benefits to its enterprise customers. They are Reekoh Bionic automation tools and Outpost for the IoT Edge. The automation tools include IoT device simulators for hardware-less IoT solution development, and a new plugin builder that Reekoh says […]
