Adelaide has become the first non-US city to join the US Smart Gigabit Communities program, led by US Ignite, a non-profit organisation that “fosters the development and deployment of advanced networking applications that will profoundly change the way Americans live, work and learn.” The government has created a web site dedicated to the Gig City […]
Archives for September 2016
Industry giants GE & Bosh team for Industrial IoT/Industry 4.0
Two of the biggest players in Industrial IoT/Industry 4.0 — Bosch and GE – are to collaborate on open source IoT platform development and on common standards to help machines and devices understand each other. GE Digital and Bosch Software Innovations have signed a MoU to “further facilitate openness and growth of the Industrial Internet […]
LoRa Alliance to hold first Asian meeting
The LoRa Alliance is bringing its all members meeting and open house to Asia for the first time. It will be held in Seoul from 11-13 October to coincide with IoT Week Korea, and will be hosted by SK Telecom, which operates a nationwide LoRaWAN network in Korea, and sponsored by Actility, a global IoT […]
Lilee Systems poised to tackle Aussie smart transport market
US IoT company Lilee Systems is poised to enter the Australian market with a focus on the transportation sector using its just released TransAir STS Gateway fog computing and communications devices. The company, founded in 2009, says its mission is to create ‘Connectivity in Motion’ by merging multiple wireless connections into a predictable, stable and […]
New Zealand getting super-smart with electricity metering
New Zealand’s Electricity Authority says that more than 70 percent of New Zealand electricity connections now have smart meters, and an increasing number of electricity retailers are exploiting the technology to deliver new customer services. The Authority says its latest data shows over half of electricity retailers have more than 80 percent of their customers […]
Silicon Controls chooses Sigfox and Thinxtra to monitor one million gas tanks
Australian Sigfox network operator, Thinxtra, has scored a contract from Australia tank monitoring company, Silicon Controls, to provide connectivity on Sigfox networks around the world that could see up to one million gas tanks and cylinders monitored over the next three years. Silicon Controls presently monitors about 134,000 LPG tanks and cylinders around the world […]
Another LPWAN for IoT: Cambium Networks launches cnReach
Wireless network technology developer, Cambium Networks, has launched cnReach, billed as a narrowband radio for highly reliable and secure transmissions across long distances. The company says that, in conjunction with its other wireless networking products, cnReach enables it to offer technology for end-to-end communications across an IoT network that can be managed and monitored […]
Empired scores a Microsoft gong for Azure based IoT project
Australian IT services provider, Empired as been named winner of Microsoft Australia’s Business Insights and Data award, at its annual partner conference, for its IoT project based on the Microsoft Azure IoT Suite, for Adelaide –based convenience store operator, Peregrine Corporation. Peregrine operates more than 260 stores across Australia under the On The Run, Smokemart […]
Buddy debuts heavy-duty Parse mobile backend-as-a-service
ASX-listed IoT company, Buddy Platform (ASX: BUD) has launched as a public beta, its version of Parse, a mobile application backend-as-a-service. Buddy Parse is a hosted version of Parse that Buddy says it believes to be “the closest possible Parse implementation to the Facebook-hosted original.” Parse was developed by the company of the same in […]
Are you IoT ready? This widget will tell you.
The UK-based IoT M2M Council (IMC) has developed a web-based IoT Readiness Calculator that anyone contemplating an organisational IoT deployment will be able use to determine their level of IoT readiness. The was launched at the CTIA Super Mobility 2016 exhibition in Las Vegas. It asks users questions about their business requirements and about technical […]