01 November 2023
Ahead of the Aotearoa AI Summit 2023, Mott MacDonald’s Maria Mingallon facilitated an exclusive pre-event workshop, Unveiling the future: Bridging AI and IoT in infrastructure.
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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 "Water Services Legislation Bill"
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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 "Water Services Legislation Bill"
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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 "Water Services Legislation Bill"
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NZ IoT Alliance thanks the Finance and Expenditure Committee for the opportunity to submit on the Water Services Legislation Bill. This submission is in response to section 389 and the power for the Chief Executive to authorise persons to read water meters, and to bring forth consideration to emerg
February 14, 2023
IoT data-driven insights are driving measurable impact across various people, place and planet local and global initiatives. As this year draws to a close, we reflect on the challenges we’ve faced but also the increased impact, opportunity, awareness, and value of IoT solutions across consumer an
December 9, 2022
November 14, 2022 Simple, uncomplicated pieces of technology, connected together via the internet is creating a vast Internet of Things across Aotearoa that will help Kiwis respond better to climate challenges and improve business productivity. Businesses looking for ways to be more productiv
November 14, 2022
Last month our executive council chair, Kriv Naicker, and executive director, Alison Mackie, hosted our annual general meeting. We presented on the previous 12 months, our strategic vision, core activities for 2022-2023, welcomed the new executive council, and said some farewells. Some of our no
November 3, 2022
The Executive Councils of the New Zealand IoT Alliance and BlockchainNZ have identified organisational synergies that could deliver significant societal and commercial benefits. Significant efficiency gains and security improvements can be achieved by leveraging blockchain's decentralised
October 19, 2022
It was recently published by RNZ that Spark is holding customers’ geographic location data for seven years, far more than the average telco. The article investigated that although Spark holds their location data for seven years, Vodafone NZ stores their data for 14 months, 2 Degrees withheld
October 13, 2022
There were 607 suicides in New Zealand last year in addition to 40x more suicide attempts. Suicide devastatingly impacts approximately 135 people per death. We need to do more to stop the pain and suffering of suicide. Over the weekend of 14-16 October, we plan to run, walk, bike, row or swim
September 28, 2022
September 28, 2022 An unfortunate side-effect of a technology or a product becoming successful in today’s world are the cyberattacks that follow. Cyberattacks are increasing globally and in New Zealand every year, IoT Alliance executive director Alison Mackie says. “IoT is no exception
September 28, 2022
An unfortunate side-effect of a technology or a product becoming successful in today’s world is the cyberattacks that follow. IoT is no exception and as we see greater IoT adoption, we will see all kinds of attacks on IoT products, users, software, hardware and networks. There have already been w
September 27, 2022