NZ company finalist in IoT World Cup for River Pollution Monitoring
KotahiNet has been named as one of 20 finalists for the 10th Innovation World Cup® Series. It is the only finalist outside of Europe and North America. The finalists were chosen from almost 500 submissions from all over the world. The IOT/WT Innovation...
Low Power Satellite IoT
Space, the final frontier. For low power Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity, perhaps the next frontier. We are in a New Space Age. Lower costs and new services are the big drivers, including new rockets and CubeSats. Even now, a terrestrial LoRaWAN...
The 30c IoT Device
Will we ever get to billions or even trillions of things connected to the Internet? Not with Internet of Things (IoT) devices costing what they do today. In most of our IoT devices, the single most expensive component is the battery. The retail price...
IoT’s Lesser Known Power: “Good Enough” Data Accuracy
The Internet of Things (IoT) is all about data, insights, and action. Commonly, this is taken to mean that the goal should be the “best” data, which will presumably lead to better insights, action, and benefits. This is a fallacy. Why? Because...
Press Release 5: New approach to engaging Māori with river data launched
A new approach to engaging Māori communities with conservation and digital technologies has been launched today. The project is a collaboration between Tuia Innovation, KotahiNet and Touch Media. Sensors for continuously monitoring some aspects of river...
Why We Operate At India’s Frequencies
Why do we, a national wireless network operator in New Zealand, operate using LoRaWAN frequencies meant for India? Why not just be like everyone else and make the “obvious” choice of operating at the frequencies designated by the LoRa Alliance...
The Digital Twin
People are slowly moving on from thinking about the Internet of Things (IoT) in terms of a new way of describing machine-to-machine connectivity. As with all step-changes, new technologies are first contextualised within the existing frames of reference....
Where we’re at with IoT
Couple of days ago I was talking to a person who works for a company providing technical advice and services to enterprise and large businesses. He commented that his clients seem to be moving from an “understanding” to “proof of concept”...
3 Cases When Not To Use LoRaWAN
LoRaWAN is an open specifications network based on the proprietary LoRa physical layer from Semtech. These networks are really good at what they are designed for- sending data payload from/to sensors and other end devices economically, over long distances,...
Proprietary data sets as gold mines
If data is the new gold, then for some IoT startups building proprietary data sets could be the gold mine. I’m a big proponent of open data but that’s for non-personal data held by government. Tax payers or rate payers fund the collection,...