Networking vendor Cisco has teamed up with the South Australian government and the City of Adelaide for a trial of traffic sensors that can potentially be used to ease congestion as well as communicate with autonomous vehicles.
Telstra has rolled out support for the NarrowBand IoT standard across major Australian cities and a number of regional towns.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is gearing up for a future in which machines will have their own bank accounts and pay for replacement parts and engineers to service them.
Telstra has acquired Australian company MTData in a move the telco said would “fast track” its enterprise connected vehicle services as part of its Internet of Things (IoT) portfolio.
Vodafone has begun the progressive rollout of services based on the Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) standard.
I recently attended a cybersecurity conference in Australia and it was amazing to me just how polemic Internet of Things (IoT) and Operational Technology (OT) is right now.
A group of US senators has unveiled proposed legislation that would mandate minimum security standards for Internet-connected devices purchased by the US government.
Within hours of Vodafone NZ on 3 July announcing plans to add NB-IoT capability to its mobile network to meet the requirements of communication with IoT devices, Spark announced plans to rollout a New Zealand-wide low powered wide area network for IoT. Spark 's network will be based on the LoRaWAN technology.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to connect billions of devices over the next few years.
With analysts, such as Gartner predicting the number of devices connected to the Internet will exceed 20 billion by 2020, from just over 8 billion today, it’s clear we are on the cusp of a new era when it comes to computing.
Telstra’s new chief technology officer, Hakan Eriksson, has wasted no time in his new role. After just a couple of months on the job, he has brought together the company’s start-up incubator muru-D and the GSMA IoT Innovation Lab within the newly launched Telstra Labs.
Telstra’s new CTO, Hakan Eriksson, yesterday took journalists on a tour of Telstra Labs
According to Matt Henshall, the ‘head of things’ at global software development company Thoughtworks, the Internet of Things is reversing to some extent the trend of recent years of moving processing power to the cloud and instead distributing it at the edge.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has participated in what the bank describes as a world first: A global transaction employing a ‘smart contract’ that uses a distributed ledger inspired by the design of Bitcoin’s blockchain.
Professor Jill Slay, the director of the Australian Centre for Cyber Security at UNSW in Canberra, has delivered a scathing attack on the IoT industry for failing to design in security, on the vendor community for peddling false promises, and bemoaned what she sees as a general lack of leadership in cyber security.