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 […]
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 […]
KEI: part think tank, part social enterprise
Chris Vein, chairman of the recently-launched Knowledge Economy Institute, in an interview with IoTAustralia, has provided more details of the institute, which is backed by data analytics provider Sirca, Bosch, Cisco, Rozetta Technology (wholly-owned by Sirca), Curtin University and the University of Tasmania. “In some senses it is a think tank on the traditional model, […]
