The Newcastle City Council has started installing smart lighting in the CBD, marking the start of a two year rollout that, it says, will give it the biggest and most functional smart lighting installation in Australia. Initially up to 50 smart light poles will be erected around Newcastle’s inner city over the next few months […]
Huawei gets closer to SAP to exploit IoT opportunities
Huawei has announced plans to expand its existing collaboration with SAP on the SAP HANA platform saying it will enable both companies to explore new opportunities in Asia Pacific and Japan in big data and analytics, smart city, safe city, IoT and cloud. Huawei says it has a long-standing partnership with SAP around the SAP […]
Reekoh adds Hypercat support to its IoT platform
Australian IoT startup Reekoh has released a suite of new plugins that it says make its the first IoT integration platform to support the Hypercat standard enabling it to bring the standard to smart city and IoT customers out-of-the-box. Reekoh claims to be the leading open integration platform purpose-built for enterprise IoT and to be solving […]
Nokia urges concerted action to make Australian cities smart
Nokia has released a study on smart cities for Australia and called for a concerted political and industry focus on their development saying they will be a key enabler of Australia’s innovation agenda and for future economic opportunity. Nokia says its report A new world of cities and the future of Australia “highlights the risks […]
Thinxtra offers free Sigfox networks to would-be smart councils
Thinxtra, the company rolling out and operating a Sigfox LPWAN network for IoT in Australia, is offering to provide 50 councils in with Sigfox coverage at no cost “to bring Internet of Things solutions to the community.” Thinxtra says it will invest $5m into the program, which will cover free installation, free development kits for […]
IoT World Forum, Dubai, and the making of a smart city
It’s easy to see why Cisco chose Dubai as the location of its third IoT World Forum, following Chicago and Barcelona in 2014 and 2013 respectively. The city has a goal to be the world’s smartest city by 2020, and is under time pressure to make significant progress towards that goal. (Interestingly, and rather confusingly […]
Could South East Queensland become the world’s first smart region?
Cisco has released a study into the application of smart city technologies and systems to South East Queensland, saying the area has the potential to become the world’s first smart region, adding 30,000 jobs and $10b to its economy “in the coming years”. The report, South East Queensland: A Smart Region, does not detail how […]
Gartner tips threefold increase in smart home devices in three years
Gartner estimates the number of connected devices in homes around the world will grow from less than 300 million in 2015 to over one billion by 2017. “Connected things include smart LED lighting, healthcare monitoring, smart locks and various sensors for such things as motion detection or carbon monoxide,” Gartner says. “Smart LED lighting will […]
Cisco elevates Adelaide to ‘Lighthouse City’ Status
Cisco has declared Adelaide to be the first smart and connected ‘Lighthouse City’ in Australia. Announcing the move, the State Government said: “Lighthouse City status is a boon for the State that will allow access to Cisco’s huge global network, and see us primed to benefit from the economic and social transformation set to occur as […]
