The Adelaide company teaching water tanks, cattle and mining rigs to talk directly to satellites - on a battery that lasts years.
FIELD INTELLIGENCE. A Myriota FlexSense device stands alone in a dry South Australian paddock - no cell tower for miles, its data going straight up to a nanosatellite passing overhead.
Most of the Internet of Things stops where the mobile network stops. Beyond the last cell tower - out on cattle stations, mine sites, pipelines and river gauges - there is a great deal of the planet and almost no coverage. Myriota built its business precisely there.
The Adelaide company makes low-cost, low-power satellite connectivity that lets a small sensor send data directly to a constellation of nanosatellites in low Earth orbit. There is no ground network to build, no cellular contract, and no mains power required. A device can sit in a field and report for years on a single battery.
The approach is deliberately unglamorous. Myriota is not chasing satellite phone calls or video streaming. It moves small, infrequent messages - a tank level, a location ping, a temperature reading - the kind of data that keeps remote industry running. Because the messages are small and the power draw is tiny, the economics work at a scale that human-facing satellite services rarely reach.
That focus traces back to a physics result. In 2013, before the company was formally founded, researchers in Adelaide demonstrated a world-first: sending IoT data straight up to a passing nanosatellite. Myriota was spun out of the University of South Australia's Institute for Telecommunications Research in 2015 to turn that demonstration into a network.
Myriota aims to revolutionise the Internet of Things by offering disruptively low-cost and long-battery-life global connectivity.
Myriota's customers are organisations whose most valuable assets sit where connectivity is hardest: agricultural producers watching water and livestock, utilities monitoring remote tanks and pipes, mining and heavy-industry operators tracking equipment, transport and logistics firms, and government and defense agencies.
The problem it solves is simple to state and expensive to ignore. When a remote water tank runs dry, a town can lose supply. When a pump fails on a distant site, someone drives hours to find out. The old answer was to send a person; Myriota's answer is a sensor that reports on its own.
Because the network is direct-to-satellite, there is no local infrastructure to install or maintain - a decisive advantage in places where building a cell tower or laying fibre makes no economic sense.
Water tank, soil and livestock monitoring across properties with no coverage.
Remote tank levels and metering with partners like Grundfos and Taggle.
Tracking and monitoring equipment on isolated sites.
Asset tracking and remote sensing with agencies including DSTG.
The satellite connectivity race is crowded, but most competitors aim at phones and broadband. Myriota built for the opposite end: tiny messages, ultra-low power, and the lowest possible cost per transmission. Its patented Dynamic Pulse technique lets a sensor send data straight to orbit without a heavy, power-hungry radio - which is what keeps batteries alive for years.
Rather than manufacturing and launching every spacecraft itself, Myriota also hosts payloads on shared satellites through partners such as Spire Global. That asset-light approach lets it grow the constellation while keeping its focus on the two numbers that decide the market: cost per message and battery life.
It sits alongside a global field of satellite IoT players - Sateliot, Astrocast, Swarm (now part of SpaceX), Skylo, Kepler, Kineis, Hiber and fellow Australian firm Fleet Space - but its ten-year head start, 100-plus patents and long-life, low-cost design give it a defensible niche in direct-to-orbit connectivity for remote industry.
Figures in USD, approximate and drawn from public announcements. The 2020 Series B was AU$28M (about US$19.3M); the December 2024 growth round of US$32M was led by the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation and Main Sequence.
Ruggedised, configurable satellite IoT device with flexible sensor inputs for water, tank and environmental monitoring.
Next-generation, 3GPP/5G standards-aligned satellite IoT connectivity.
Ultra-low-power constellation and module technology behind long-battery-life, direct-to-orbit transmission.
Satellite-connected tracking for high-value equipment in off-grid locations.
Off-the-shelf modules, dev kits, RTOS support and cloud APIs for device makers to add satellite connectivity.
A B2B mix of hardware and recurring connectivity. Myriota sells modules and finished devices, then charges recurring satellite data plans priced per message or subscription, and works through OEMs and system integrators who embed its network into their own products.
Deep signal-processing and wireless communications know-how from a university research lab, hardened into a commercial constellation - power-optimised radios, satellite pass scheduling, secure data transfer and edge-to-cloud integration.
Researchers in Adelaide prove IoT data can be sent directly to a passing nanosatellite.
David Haley and Alex Grant spin the technology out of the University of South Australia.
Raises Series A funding with investors including Boeing HorizonX and In-Q-Tel.
Hostplus and Main Sequence lead a round pushing total funding past AU$50M.
Broadens its lineup with configurable, field-ready sensors.
National Reconstruction Fund and Main Sequence back global expansion.
Four new UltraLite satellites launch via SpaceX with Spire Global as Myriota marks ten years.
Hosts Myriota payloads on shared nanosatellites.
Strategic investor and partner.
Cloud and Ground Station integration.
Australian market satellite IoT services.
The core tech was demonstrated in 2013 - two years before Myriota was formally founded.
Spun out of the University of South Australia's Institute for Telecommunications Research.
Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull invested in the Series B round.
Devices are designed to run for years with no power and no phone signal.
Based at Lot Fourteen, the same Adelaide precinct as the Australian Space Agency.
Its 2025 satellites launched on SpaceX's Transporter-12 rideshare mission.
Myriota provides low-cost, low-power satellite connectivity that lets remote IoT sensors send data directly to a constellation of low Earth orbit nanosatellites - without any ground network or cell coverage.
It was founded in 2015 by Dr David Haley and Dr Alex Grant, spun out of the University of South Australia's Institute for Telecommunications Research, building on a world-first direct-to-satellite demonstration in 2013.
Myriota is headquartered in Adelaide, South Australia, at the Lot Fourteen innovation precinct that also hosts the Australian Space Agency.
Customers span agriculture, water utilities, mining, transport and logistics, energy and government/defense - typically organisations that need to monitor assets in remote, off-grid locations.
Myriota has raised roughly US$80M+ across multiple rounds, including an AU$28M Series B in 2020 and a US$32M growth round led by Australia's National Reconstruction Fund Corporation in December 2024.