The IoT Impact conference on June 13 will bring to Sydney a snapshot of regional Australian, national and global companies working to put Australian businesses at the forefront of AI and IoT-driven productivity.

This includes the company behind a system that has been used to help manage response to floods in Australia, to the Australian company behind a system designed to help local governments and transport authorities grappling with complex urban data collection.

Several are in line for recognition for their work in standout Australian IoT, as finalists in the 2024 IoT Awards, which will be presented at the event.

The sponsors include:

XDNA, Downer’s digital business that helps Downer’s customers and partners transform through the use of emerging technologies. It specialises in developing digital outcomes for clients in areas that include IoT, edge computing, AI and advanced analytics.

Aquamonix, a member of the Envirada group of Australian companies, develops water and other environmental monitoring products. It has an installed base with more than 30,000 flowmeters, 1,000 depth or quality sensors and 5,000 irrigation controllers or other devices.

Aquamonix is in the running for an IoT Impact Award in the Safety & Wellbeing category for Envault, its cloud-based data collection and management platform for flood reporting, alarming, measurement, control and data presentation. Envault integrates with disaster management systems to help response teams make better decisions during flood events.

Cogito Group is an Australian and New Zealand based provider of managed cyber security products. It is also in the running for the Smart Data Ecosystem Award, for its product Jellyfish which enables public key infrastructure digital identity to be embedded into IoT devices at scale, from design and manufacturing through the entire product lifecycle.

Entech Electronics is an Australian owned contract manufacturer of electronic and electromechanical systems. In 2021 it was the winner of the IoT Impact Manufacturing Award.

Genesys Electronics Design is the largest electronics design company in NSW and offers development of IoT devices from concept to boxed product. It has partnered with Sigfox network operator Thinxtra. It offers a white paper: What you need to know BEFORE Developing Smart Products and runs educational webinars on product design using IoT technologies.

Glyn is a distributor of electronic products supporting manufacturers from warehouses in Australia and New Zealand, including a range of IoT modules supporting a wide range of communications technologies.

Bosch, the German multinational, has long been active in all aspects of IoT and in 2019 consolidated its IoT activities into a new company, Bosch.IO. It combines consulting and implementation skills to deliver AIoT and digital projects.

Local arm Bosch Australia Manufacturing Solutions is in the running for an IoT Impact Award in the Industrial Automation category in conjunction with CSR’s GH Bricks and Pavers for a project that aims to aims to accurately measure and quantify the colour consistency of bricks in factory production. The aim is to produce bricks to customers within specified colour ranges and to reduce waste.

CSIRO, as Australia’s leading R&D establishment, needs no introduction and of course is undertaking research in IoT. One of its projects is a finalist in the Smart Data Ecosystem category. Its entry is a randomised control trial to validate a CSIRO-developed iOS platform called Smarter Safer Homes to support older people living independently at home.

Ambient sensors were installed around a person’s home to gather data which was processed to infer essential activities of daily living, so as to be unobtrusive and privacy preserving.

ifm is the Australian arm of ifm efector, a German family-owned company and a global leader in sensor and automation technology. its Australian IoT business manager and digital strategy leader, Freddie Coertze, will participate in an IoT Impact panel session: Realising the Impact - data and technology integration.

IoT Skills Australia is a not-for-profit entity that empowers Australia’s industry leaders and policymakers in their efforts to prepare a workforce fit for tomorrow’s digital economy. It is a division of Energy Skills Queensland, an independent, not-for-profit training organisation supporting the electricity, oil and gas, mining, renewable and telecommunications sectors.

NBN Co, Australia’s government owned national broadband network operator, has offered a fixed line service specifically for the connection of IoT devices since 2019, and has since introduced a satellite connectivity service for IoT applications.

Nexus IoT is a subsidiary of data centre designer and builder Nexus World. It is an online store offering a wide range of sensors, accessories, software and control panels for IoT applications.

Asus IoT is a sub brand of well-known PC maker ASUS It was established in 2019 with a mission to become a trusted provider of embedded solutions. It manufactures a range of edge computing devices with embedded AI for a wide variety of IoT applications.

Nordic Semiconductor is a Norwegian fabless semiconductor company specialising in wireless communication technology for IoT applications. It was a pioneer in Bluetooth and has since expand to offer products for ANT+, Thread, Zigbee, LTE-M/NB-IoT and WiFi.

Optus, which has a service dedicated to IoT applications: IoTFlex. It is a self-managed connectivity service that allows companies to securely connect, manage and control communications between devices at the IoT edge and application services in the cloud and/or on-premise.

Telstra, which is involved in an IoT Awards finalist Smart Data Ecosystem project, which uses the Telstra Data Hub for secure sharing and collaboration on data from Charles Sturt University's Global Digital Farm.

Saphi is a NSW based research and development company focussed on four areas: AI imaging, edge computing, systems integration and smart operational technology. It was engaged by the City of Newcastle to consult, architect, design, develop, deploy and manage the IoT system for its smart city project

Saphi is a finalist in no fewer than three categories in the IoT Impact Awards: Industrial Automation; Smart Sensing; Trusted IoT Service.

Senquip is a NSW company specialising in rugged, user programmable telemetry devices. These connect industrial sensors and systems to the Senquip Portal or a server of the customer’s choice. The company specialises in mining, industrial, agricultural and utilities applications and partners with major cloud services land with IoT specialist cloud services such as Cumulocity and Reekoh.

The Smart Infrastructure Facility at the University of Wollongong, founded in 2011, is one of the world’s largest research institutions dedicated to helping governments and businesses better plan for the future. In its 30 laboratories it brings together experts from fields such as rail, infrastructure systems, transport, water, energy, economics and modelling and simulation.

In 2021 the University teamed up with Telstra, Microsoft and NVIDIA to set up an Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) Hub to develop AIoT solutions to infrastructure problems.

Milesight Technology is a China based global company offering a huge range of IoT products from sensors and gateways to cloud software for a variety of applications, including agriculture, office environments, energy and transportation.

The Australian Computer Society (ACS) was quick to realise the importance of IoT. In 2018 it commissioned a report from PWC: Australia’s IoT Opportunity: Driving Future Growth and formed an IoT committee in 2020 to provide it with thought leadership, commentary and advice on all aspects of IoT.

Standards Australia has been working with the IoT Alliance Australia on IoT standards for several years and represents Australia on several ISO/IEC subcommittees working on international IoT standards. It has adopted a number of internal IoT standards as Australian standards.