eSAT Global — a US company planning to use existing geostationary satellites for IoT applications — has scored its first Australian customer: Smart Paddock, developer of a livestock monitoring tag. Together, the two companies say they will seek to provide over $9 billion in benefits to the Australian meat and livestock industry. Smart Paddock’s Bluebell […]
Ceres Tag teams with Globalstar to trial cattle monitoring
Ceres Tag, an Australian company that has developed a smart ear tag for monitoring cattle, has formed a partnership with US based satellite operator Globalstar to conduct the final stages of large-scale commercial trials of its technology for the provenance and management of livestock. Globalstar said the trials would be a significant scale extension of […]
NZ company develops face recognition for sheep
A Dunedin based company, Iris Data Science, aims to develop what it says will be the world’s first sheep facial recognition software, eliminating the need for electronic identification or ear tagging. It will prototype the technology this year after receiving a $40,000 grant from the New Zealand Government’s innovation agency Callaghan Innovation towards the $100,000 […]
Will the government realise the agricultural potential of IoT?
When it comes to the agricultural potential of IoT the Australian Government just does not seem to get it. A 2015 report and a 2016 parliamentary enquiry both failed to make more than passing reference. A new enquiry is now underway. Will it do a better job? On 3 September the Federal Government launched an […]
New ETSI specs for smart cities, smart factories and smart agriculture
The ETSI SmartM2M technical committee has released three new specifications for: smart cities; industry and manufacturing; smart agriculture and food chain domains saying they will enable interoperability and therefore contribute to the development of the global digital market. They are the latest in a series of Smart Applications Reference ontology (SAREF) specifications and follow release […]
Sydney University startup looks to automate farming
A new startup spun out of the University of Sydney is looking to capitalise on a growing workforce shortage in agriculture, worldwide. Put “aging agricultural workforce” into a Google search and you will come up with no end of ominous headlines, such as this one: “Farming on the verge of a workforce crisis”, from Deloitte […]
CropLogic crops up in Victoria
ASX-listed agricultural IoT company, CropLogic (ASX: CLI) has partnered with SproutX — a joint venture between financial advisory company Findex and the National Farmers’ Federation — Mildura Regional Development and the Victorian Government to deploy its technology as part of Mildura Regional Development’s Smart Farm project. CropLogic collects field sensor data, climate data and aerial […]
NZ Government gets smart about agriculture
The New Zealand Government is creating a technical advisory group to advise the Ministry of Primary Industries on how to accelerate the use of smart agriculture technology. The announcement was made jointly by primary industries minister, Nathan Guy, and communications minister, Amy Adams, with Guy saying: “Technology has major potential to support higher productivity and […]
