According to Deloitte’s Mobile Consumer Survey, for the second year running the connected smart entertainment device market has been the primary driver of growth in the consumer IoT market. Deloitte says just under 30 percent of Australians own smart TVs or gaming consoles, but there has been zero growth in the connected home device market […]
Australian household spending on IoT to reach $300 per year per household by 2019
Research firm Telsyte is forecasting that annual Australian household spending on IoT home products and services will reach $3.2b in 2019, an eleven-fold increase from $289m in 2015, and that does not include personal IoT devices and services like Fitbits. There are about 10 million households in Australia today and the ABS estimates there will […]
Australia lagging on smart homes and smart cities
Australia is lagging behind many nations in the application of IoT to both smart homes and smart cities, and leadership needs to come from the Government, says Frost & Sullivan. The research company is preparing to publish, later this year, separate reports on smart cities and smart homes and according to Audrey William, head of […]
