LoRaWAN customers of New Zealand telco Spark and Australian LoRaWAN network operator the National Narrowband Network Co (NNNCo) will have access to both networks under a LoRaWAN roaming agreement struck between the two companies. The wholesale arrangement has been enabled with the integration of NNNCo’s enterprise data platform N2N-DL into Spark NZ’s network core. […]
TasNetworks and NNNCo partner to build Tasmania-wide LoRaWAN IoT network
Tasmanian energy distribution utility, TasNetworks, its telco subsidiary, 42-24, and NNNCo have partnered to build a Tasmania-wide LoRaWAN IoT network. NNNCo will begin building the network in the second half of 2020, deploying LoRaWAN gateways on TasNetwork assets across Tasmania. TasNetworks will explore opportunities to use the network to connect IoT devices for its own […]
SafetyCulture gets into IoT with NNNCo
SafetyCulture, an Australian company specialising in software for workplace safety monitoring, is expanding into the IoT business, launching LoRaWAN connected temperature and humidity centres in partnership with Australian LoRaWAN network operator, NNNCo. The sensors will communicate back to SafetyCulture’s main product, its iAuditor application, over LoRaWAN and the Internet via NNNCO’s N2N-DL data platform. NNNCo founder […]
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 […]
The Things Network (LoRaWAN) to stage Australian conference
Amsterdam-based The Things Network, which supports connectivity through LoRaWAN hotspots around the world, is to stage a conference in Adelaide this month, its first in Asia Pacific. The Things Network began just over three years ago with a few electronics enthusiasts experimenting with LoRaWAN and now claims to be a commercially viable global network linking […]
Actility partners with Hiber for LoRaWAN over satellite
Actility, the developer of an IoT platform for LoRaWAN and a cofounder of the LoRa Alliance, has partnered with Hiber which is planning a network of nano satellites for IoT. The two say their collaboration will enable LoRaWAN connectivity in remote and developing parts of the globe that until now have not had access to […]
Fleet Space finds funding of $ 10.8m
Adelaide based Fleet Space Technologies—which is planning a network of nanosatellites for IoT applications—has raised $10.8 million from several global investors including Horizon Ventures, Momenta Ventures, Grok Ventures, existing investor Blackbird Ventures and the Kennard family, whose equipment hire company Kennards Hire, is a Fleet customer. Fleet provides IoT connectivity via its satellites and a […]
India’s Enzen group pumps $8m into NNNCo
India based global energy and environment company Enzen Group has invested $8m into Australian LoRaWAN network operator National Narrowband Network Co (NNNCo). Its equity share was not disclosed. NNNCo says it will use the funds to expand its LoRaWAN network, enhance its enterprise software platform, and expand its solutions into key vertical markets including energy, […]
LPWAN tipped to top cellular for IoT until 2024
ABI Research says LoRaWAN and Sigfox will hold the leading share of LPWAN networks connections until at least 2024, but by 2026 cellular technologies NB-IoT and LTE-M will account for 60 percent of its estimate of 3.6 billion LPWAN network connections. However, ABI Research expect LoRa and Sigfox to account for over 80 percent of […]
