A full water tank can be surprisingly expensive to look at. Ranchbot connects remote tanks, troughs and pumps to a phone, helping ranchers decide which journeys are worth making.
A water level, a missing buoy, a glacier’s temperature: Ground Control makes a business of getting small, consequential messages out of places ordinary networks cannot reach.
Ray Ozzie’s latest company turns the messiest parts of industrial IoT into a small module and a JSON request. The payoff is speed; the tradeoff is that Blues works best when machines whisper useful data, not when they stream the world.
Myriota is an Adelaide-based satellite IoT company that connects low-power sensors directly to a constellation of low Earth orbit nanosatellites, giving remote assets - water tanks, cattle, mining equipment, pipelines - affordable global connectivity with years of battery life and no ground infrastructure. Spun out of the University of South Australia in 2015 by Dr David Haley and Dr Alex Grant, the company commercialised a world-first direct-to-orbit transmission technique and now serves agriculture, water utilities, mining, transport and defense customers across multiple continents.