William Maher

William Maher is the editor-in-chief of techpartner.news and editor of IoT Hub.

He has more than two decades of experience writing about technology, including as a journalist, editor, commercial editor and corporate writer.

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Recent articles by William Maher

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  Transport for NSW announces smart parking trial

  Data from four car parks now available via app.
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  Rio Tinto touts first remote operations TAFE course

  First employees to take part in pilot in 2020.
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  Optus touts 5G-networked drones for video surveillance

  Connects drone to cloud to identify and track objects.
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  Rugby Australia renews agreement to use player trackers

  All Australian representative teams, Super Rugby franchises, academies and match officials to wear device.
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  Fitbit for horses: tracker used by trainers of Melbourne Cup Carnival winners

  'Health and fitness' tracker used to monitor horses' heart rate, speed and stride during training.
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  NSW and SA Governments tout new agtech research farms

  Including an $11.5 million CSIRO research station near Canberra.
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  Sierra Wireless to buy Melbourne-based M2M Group for US$19.8 million

  Impressed with the Australian group's "rapidly" growing subscription-based revenue.
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  Australian home builder trials facial recognition in display homes

  Tracking if visitors are “happy or excited” when entering and leaving.
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  Many Australian organisations have cybersecurity ‘fatigue’, reports Cisco

  Majority of those surveyed receive more than 100,000 cybersecurity alerts each day.
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  Australian Government seeks suppliers for 5,500-camera surveillance network

  Including suppliers of video analytics, facial detection, wireless and cybersecurity technology.
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  NBN Co announces satellite service aimed at IoT users

  Wholesale offering supports non-addressable locations.
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  Newcrest Mining using IoT to prevent downtime in NSW gold mine

  Tapping sensors to reduce costly delays.
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  Hitachi could bring AI, analytics jobs to Western Sydney Aerotropolis

  Japanese company looking to attract "brightest minds" to new collaboration hub.
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  Driverless shuttle now taking passengers in Armidale CBD

  Transport for NSW claims an Australian first.
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  Lendlease lays out property-tech wish list

  Outlines vision for 'smart building ecosystem'.
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  We look back at moments in IoT that were important in Australia

  From Woodside Energy’s 200,000 sensors to the massive Sydney trains data stream.
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  Telstra begins countdown to 3G switch-off

  Reveals timeline to switch off 3G and promises expansion of 4G coverage.
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  Today is your last chance to take the Australian IoT survey!

  So far, respondents most want to read about Australian IoT projects, AI and business benefits of IoT.
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  Former Optus IoT practice lead joins Thinxtra

  Low power network provider trumpets hiring of Anthony Stewart.
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