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Canadian building management giant BGIS is setting up its IoT shop in Adelaide

Andrew Spence - April 14, 2021 2 MIN READ

Canadian building management company BGIS will expand its Australian operations centre in Adelaide to monitor clients across the Asia Pacific. The global company plans to utilise the latest Internet of Things technologies in Adelaide, South Australia to remotely control buildings in other states and countries through internet-connected devices and sensors. This includes the monitoring and… Read more »

News & Analysis

Australian space company Fleet is launching its 5th nanosatellite next month

Simon Thomsen - February 10, 2021 < 1 MIN READ

Fleet Space Technologies will launch its fifth nanosatellite, Centauri, 3 next month as part of Rocket Lab’s latest mission, taking off from New Zealand’s Māhia Peninsula. Fellow South Australian satellite venture Myriota will also launch its first satellite in the same Rocklet Lab payload. Centauri 3 is part of a planned 140-strong constellation offering satellite… Read more »

Funding

Morse Micro IoT, the deep tech startup by the co-inventors of Wi-Fi, has completed a $42 million Series A

Simon Thomsen - November 25, 2020 < 1 MIN READ

Morse Micro, which is reinventing Wi-Fi technology for the Internet-of-Things (IoT), has raised an extra $18 million in its Series A to take the total round to $42 million. The Sydney deep tech venture, founded in 2016, has some of original inventors of Wi-FI in the team and will use the funds to expand its… Read more »

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Adelaide’s Myriota partners with Australian Institute of Marine Science to track health of tropical waters

Gina Baldassarre - November 16, 2018 2 MIN READ

Adelaide Internet of Things startup Myriota has partnered with the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) to track the health of Australia’s tropical waters via its low earth orbiting (LEO) satellites.

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Adelaide startup Fleet Space Technologies opens mission control centre

Gina Baldassarre - July 30, 2018 2 MIN READ

Adelaide startup Fleet Space Technologies has opened its mission control centre ahead of the planned launch of two of its nanosatellites later this year.

Profiles

IoT startup Ion Systems wants to manage the safety of teams in emergency services or military environments

Gina Baldassarre - June 20, 2018 3 MIN READ

Ion Systems is developing a system to improve the situational awareness of teams in hostile environments, such as emergency services or Defence.

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Adelaide startup Fleet Space Technologies announces nanosatellite launch plans

Gina Baldassarre - June 19, 2018 3 MIN READ

Adelaide startup Fleet Space Technologies has announced it is set to launch two nanosatellites before the end of the year in its bid to connect the 75 billion devices expected to be online by 2025.

Profiles

Adelaide startup Prohab is creating a device to help athletes with injury rehabilitation

Clint Vojdinoski - June 8, 2018 5 MIN READ

Prohab CEO Lyndon Huf spoke about his company’s development and how his dad encouraged him to go hard and pursue this idea.

News & Analysis

Adelaide space startup Myriota raises US$15 million from Blue Sky VC and Boeing HorizonX

Gina Baldassarre - March 27, 2018 3 MIN READ

Adelaide’s Myriota has raised a US$15 million eries A round led Blue Sky VC and the CSIRO’s Main Sequence Ventures, with participation from Boeing HorizonX.

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Adelaide partners with Cisco to launch Internet of Things traffic project

Gina Baldassarre - February 2, 2018 2 MIN READ

Adelaide is pushing ahead in developing its smart city credentials, partnering with Cisco to run a $1 million Internet of Things traffic project.

Other

Agtech segments which have raised the most funding in Australia

James Ward - September 25, 2017 2 MIN READ

Leading investment totals for IoT agtechs is The Yield, which applies its flagship ‘Sensing+’ technology to detect the microclimate of an ecosystem

News & Analysis

Energy Australia and Redback Technologies partner to launch renewable energy management system

James Ward - September 6, 2017 3 MIN READ

Energy Australia has partnered with Redback Technologies to launch the Redback Smart Hybrid System, a renewable energy system used to control energy usage.

News & Analysis

Startupbootcamp launches energy accelerator in Melbourne as Slingshot launches Queensland tourism accelerator Horizons

James Ward - August 3, 2017 3 MIN READ

Startupbootcamp has launched ‘Energy Australia’, a Melbourne-based accelerator to support startups working in the energy space.

News & Analysis

Visa study finds Australians are growing increasingly more comfortable using AI and IoT for payments

James Ward - July 20, 2017 2 MIN READ

A new study from Visa has suggested that Australians are becoming increasingly more comfortable with pairing IoT and AI tech with their transactions.

News & Analysis

Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro launches $100 million venture fund targeting IoT startups

James Ward - June 27, 2017 2 MIN READ

Trend Micro has announced the launch of a $100 million corporate venture fund designed to support emerging tech markets, with IoT one of the key focuses.

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