23 October 2024
Kia ora, The NZ IoT Alliance is gearing up for another year of collaboration, and I’m pleased to welcome our new Executive Council members: Jenna Whitman from Callaghan Innovation, Edwin Lim from HGM Legal, and Steven Dirven from Shape Technology. We’re thrilled to have you on board and look forward to working with you on some exciting initiatives this term. You … Continue reading "Businesses Fear ‘Catastrophic Consequences’ of Unsecured IoT"
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22 October 2024
Spring has brought fresh beginnings for IoT Alliance New Zealand, and we’re thrilled to introduce the newly elected members of our Executive Council. Each of these industry leaders brings unique expertise and passion to the table, ready to drive the next wave of innovation and collaboration in Aotearoa’s IoT community. Jenna Whitman, Callaghan Innovation Jenna … Continue reading "Businesses Fear ‘Catastrophic Consequences’ of Unsecured IoT"
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21 August 2024
I recently provided the foreword for NZ IoT Alliance member Chorus’ report on 'Solving problems with fibre-enabled IoT’. In this, I stated that New Zealand is at an inflection point, with a future that connects data, devices, and people to unlock the next phase of economic growth.
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13 August 2024
The New Zealand IoT Alliance was launched in 2017 and is governed by an independent elected Executive Council and there are vacancies for five positions in 2024. Our key purpose is to actively contribute to the prosperity of New Zealand through accelerating the uptake of IoT. We aim to accelerate IoT innovation by promoting collaboration across … Continue reading "Businesses Fear ‘Catastrophic Consequences’ of Unsecured IoT"
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09 February 2024
Kia ora, Welcome to 2024! If 2023 was all about the leaps in generative AI, this year, we’re setting the stage for IoT to shine. At the close of 2023, the New Zealand IoT Alliance team crafted a strategy to help build a more connected Aotearoa. Our goal is simple: use IoT to promote sustainability, … Continue reading "Businesses Fear ‘Catastrophic Consequences’ of Unsecured IoT"
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26 October 2023
Kia ora, Last month, our executive council chair, Kriv Naicker, and executive director, Alison Mackie, hosted our annual general meeting where we presented on the previous 12 months, our strategic vision, core activities for 2023, welcomed the new executive council, and said some farewells. It’s been an interesting year with generative AI being all that anyone could … Continue reading "Businesses Fear ‘Catastrophic Consequences’ of Unsecured IoT"
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25 October 2023
The Auckland ICT Graduate School at The University of Auckland is hosting a ‘Green Futures Hackathon’ from 20 November 2023 – 9 February 2024. As a supporter of this event, the IoT Alliance is calling on its community for anyone who is interested in joining as a mentor or who can assist in the hackathon with a … Continue reading "Businesses Fear ‘Catastrophic Consequences’ of Unsecured IoT"
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16 August 2023
Kia ora, Last week, NZ IoT Alliance hosted a webinar ‘Next Tech Frontier: Exploring IoT and Multi-Modal AI’. We were fortunate to hear from Fraser Paine, Aware Group, Steven Dirven, Shape Technology, and our own chair, Kriv Naicker, who provided an in-depth exploration of the merging areas of IoT and multi-modal AI, offering exciting insights and possibilities. It opened with … Continue reading "Businesses Fear ‘Catastrophic Consequences’ of Unsecured IoT"
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"The risk of major cyber security breaches via IoT devices is growing, especially from third party devices. The NZ IoT Alliance has formed a working group to look at this very issue and what measures need to be adopted within NZ." Source: Darkreading.com Only 29% of respondents in a new IoT s
August 23, 2018
“Great to see two NZ companies and Callaghan Innovation collaborating to deliver IoT logistics solution for the global airline industry. Even better that the devices are being manufactured in NZ and sold globally. IoT is going to create significant economic benefits for NZ and this is a perfect ex
August 16, 2018
Vodafone’s Blackhawk Tracking solution is helping farmers to track and manage ATV driver behaviour. Using a combination of real time data and GPS tracking, Blackhawk is allowing farmers to locate drivers and monitor performance. For the driver, the automated emergency call should the vehicle tip o
August 16, 2018
Great to see Christchurch City Council in partnership with Visionstream (Ventia) deploying low cost IoT to monitor and manage their sewage system. This solution is already resulting in significant operational improvements and cost savings. A real gritty IoT application delivering significant benefit
August 13, 2018
A great, albeit be it very sad, application of IoT doing good in our communities. Getting these devices out into homes will show the true state of housing stock in NZ. As NZ’s we then need to focus on solutions to fix this wicked problem. Watch the video
August 2, 2018
A fledgling New Zealand agritech company run by a rising Kiwi entrepreneur who has worked for Rocket Lab has raised $8 million, from Silicon Valley venture capital firm Data Collective, which is likely to result in massive changes to the nation’s burgeoning dairy industry. Waikato company Halte
July 2, 2018
The enormity and massive impact internet of things (IoT) will have around New Zealand globally has just been sheeted home in a new report which says spending will hit $US1.2 trillion by 2022. Analyst firm IDC has announced the findings its latest Worldwide Semiannual Internet of Things Spending Gui
June 28, 2018
Great to see global cities taking the lead in Smart City / IoT deployments to improve asset management. Proactive Investors Australia Source: Proactive Investors Sensen Networks Ltd (ASX:SNS) has launched its smart city solutions in the US through an agreement with Silicon Harlem LLC to enhanc
April 23, 2018
IoT rubber finally hits the road...literally. Nifty little innovation here from Pirelli, IoT connected tyres which goes well beyond measuring tyre pressure. Wouldn’t it be cool if next time you charged up your car, it automatically sorted out any tyre issues like pressure or load balancing. Tyre s
April 23, 2018