UNSW Sydney has partnered with Providence Asset Group and Tamworth City Council to develop a trial of what it claims will be Australia’s first fully integrated smart city, with applications spanning transport, energy, health, telecommunications and other community services. UNSW contrasts this with previous trials that it says have incorporated only energy systems and were […]
Emergency lights create LoRaWAN network for IoT
Sydney based WBS Technology is marketing an IoT system for commercial buildings based on networked, communications-enabled emergency lights. The lights communicate with each other and with sensors using 6LoWPAN and RPL protocols over LoRaWAN. These communicate with a cloud based platform via cellular and locally can be monitored and controlled from a smartphone via bluetooth. […]
It’s official: NSW Smart Sensing Network opens
The NSW Government backed Smart Sensing Network (NSSN) at the Australian Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology (AINST) was officially opened on 1 February The centre is led by co-directors Professor Benjamin Eggleton from the University of Sydney’s School of Physics and UNSW’s Professor Justin Gooding from the School of Chemistry. The NSW Government announce […]
Cisco launches Sydney IoT innovation centre
Cisco has formally launched the second of its two Australian IoT Innovation Centres, both of which were announced at Cisco Live! In Melbourne in March 2015. However it is a very different beast from what was foreshadowed in that announcement, with a much greater range of partners likely to make it much more effective. Cisco […]
