Berlin based blockchain company, the MXC Foundation — created by Brisbane entrepreneur Aaron Wagener – has scored a clutch of new venture capital investors that are backing its plan to use a cryptocurrency to enable the secure and authenticated trading of data from IoT sensors over LoRaWAN. The new backers are Fenbushi Capital, BlockAsset Ventures, […]
NNNCo taps Actility to rollout large scale LoRaWAN network
National Narrowband Network Co (NNNCo) has contracted French company Actility to rollout a LoRaWAN network, claiming it will be “Australia’s first industrial IoT network.” Actility, founded in 2010, has developed an IoT platform specific for LoRaWAN, ThingPark, that it claims underpins more than half the national LPWA network rollouts globally. ThingPark is described as “a […]
KPMG launches IoT security suite for smart cities
KPMG Australia has launched two IoT initiatives: the first IoT LoRaWAN gateway for Melbourne’s Docklands, and a suite of cyber security IoT products to support the development of smart cities. They were launched at an event in Melbourne at which the IoT Alliance Australia and Communications Alliance launched their IoT Security Guideline. The LoRaWAN gateway […]
LoRaWAN comes to Townsville
IoT integrator Campbell Scientific Australia has set up a LoRaWAN network in Townsville in partnership with The Townsville City Council and supported by Campbell Scientific’s Altoview IoT platform. Altoview is a cloud-based system combined with a LoRaWAN network, designed by Campbell Scientific in Australia to address the need for real time data management across a […]
Launceston to get LoRaWAN network
Tasmania’s minister for IT and Innovation, Michael Ferguson, has announced a plan to provide a Launceston-wide LoRaWAN network at a cost of $100,000, with the gateways and devices to be manufactured by local company Definium. Other partners in the project are the University of Tasmania, the CSIRO and Sense-T — the long running Tasmanian IoT […]
LoRa Alliance to hold first Asian meeting
The LoRa Alliance is bringing its all members meeting and open house to Asia for the first time. It will be held in Seoul from 11-13 October to coincide with IoT Week Korea, and will be hosted by SK Telecom, which operates a nationwide LoRaWAN network in Korea, and sponsored by Actility, a global IoT […]
Meshed offers free access LoRaWAN network in Sydney – UPDATED
This article has been updated with additional information following the formal launch of the network Sydney IoT company, Meshed, in conjunction with University of Technology Sydney and the Amsterdam-based Things Network, has launched what it says is Sydney’s first public access IoT network, using LoRaWAN low powered wide area network technology. It follows the launch […]
LoRaWAN gets a boost: Orange joins LoRa Alliance board
LoRaWAN, one of several technologies vying for market share in the low-powered wide area network market, has received a significant morale boost with France’s largest mobile network operator, Orange joining its board. LoRaWAN, Ingenu and Sigfox are the three leading new LPWAN technologies to have emerged in recent times to cater for need so IoT […]
Microcells extend scope of Senet’s US LoRaWAN network
Senet, which claims to be the first and only North American provider of public low-power wide area networks using the LoRaWAN technology, has added two new microcells as part of its network as a service offering, saying they will enable LoRaWAN coverage to be provided at a fraction of the cost of its current macrocells. […]
SK Telecom planning nationwide LoRaWAN network
Korean Telco SK Telecom has become the latest telco to announce plans for a nationwide low-powered wide area network based on the LoRaWAN technology. However its press release announcing the move is somewhat ambiguous. It says only that SKT is “building a nationwide Low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) within this year,” and that “In July 2015, […]
