South Australian satellite IoT company Myriota is to provide IoT communications for the South Australian Government’s planned SASAT1 low earth orbit satellite. South Australian premier, Steven Marshall announced SASAT1 on 20 January, describing it as $6.5m project that would provide information to improve state services such as, emergency services, the environment, water quality monitoring, mining […]
Adelaide’s ‘GigCity’ leader Tom Hajdu to be SA’s chief innovation advisor
The South Australian Government has named Dr Tom Hajdu, a US “global innovation specialist, technology entrepreneur and CEO of Disrupter,” as its first chief advisor on innovation. South Australian premier, Jay Weatherill, said his appointment follows his key role in helping to establish GigCity Adelaide, which brought super-fast internet to 14 innovation precincts. He said […]
South Australia Govt backs state-wide Sigfox rollout
The South Australian Government, through Investment Attraction South Australia is to accelerate and expand the rollout of Thinxtra’s Sigfox low-powered wide area network for IoT in the state. Thinxtra, Sigfox’s Australian licensee, aims to have a Sigfox network covering 85 percent of the Australian population by the end of 2018. Earlier this month it announced […]
