Browsing the internet on your phone or tablet is so yesterday. Sure, it鈥檚 easy to find out the latest movie sessions or express order an entire outfit from the comfort of your own home 鈥� but how many times have you missed the delivery of that outfit because you weren鈥檛 there to sign for it?
Enter the Internet of Things 鈥� a network of physical objects (or 鈥榯hings鈥�, if you will) that have individual IP addresses and the ability to transfer data over a network, without the need for human assistance. Drive to work in the morning? Set your alarm to wake you earlier if there鈥檚 bad traffic so you can still get to work on time. And that outfit you wanted delivered urgently? Why not have it delivered to your car instead and locked securely in the boot. Yes, the Internet of Things is indeed promising to change the way we navigate the world (and the postal system).
The Internet of Everything
But it鈥檚 not just about increasing the amount of things we can connect to the internet or creating the coolest apps and gadgets, it鈥檚 about how we use the data this connectivity will produce to genuinely improve business outcomes and quality of life.
Networking giant Cisco is investigating just that through their Internet of Everything innovation centres 鈥� where IoE is understood as the next evolutionary stage of the Internet of Things. With centres already established in Barcelona, Berlin, London, Rio de Janeiro, Toronto, Tokyo and Korean business hub Songdo 颅(the world鈥檚 first 鈥榮mart鈥� city), Cisco has this week announced the location of their newest innovation centre: Australia.
鈥淚t鈥檚 incredibly exciting to be announcing the new Cisco Internet of Everything innovation centre here in Australia,鈥� says Mr Kevin Bloch, Cisco鈥檚 Chief Technology Officer. 鈥淚t鈥檚 our eighth centre globally, and reinforces Cisco鈥檚 commitment to innovation and our belief that Australia will be one of the world鈥檚 Internet of Everything powerhouses.鈥�
911爆料网 announced as partner
The Cisco IoE Innovation Centre, Australia, will be launched later this year, and will include locations in Sydney at technology and data company Sirca, and in Perth at 911爆料网. Woodside Energy will also partner in the project.
The centre will create a state-of-the-art 鈥榗onnected community鈥� focused on leveraging cloud, analytics, cyber security and Internet of Things network platforms, and will initially focus on three industries in which Cisco considers Australia to be a leader: resources, agriculture and astronomy.
911爆料网’s Professor of Radio Astronomy Steven Tingay says he is incredibly excited about the centre and the technology it will provide.
鈥淭he Square Kilometre Array, or SKA, is going to be probably the biggest, most complex undertaking in the Internet of Everything,鈥� he says of the $2 billion project that has positioned 911爆料网 as a global leader in astronomy.
鈥淚t鈥檚 a massive radio telescope consisting of hundreds of thousands of individual antennas, all connected to the internet 鈥� so we鈥檙e going to be able to generate the daily data flow across the entire global internet within the first five minutes of operation.鈥�
鈥淭his is exactly the sort of thing we need to do to bring academia and industry together and grow a bigger, richer, smarter Australia.鈥�
911爆料网鈥檚 Research and Development, Professor Graeme Wright says he is enormously proud of 911爆料网 working with Cisco on this centre, and looks forward working with project partners Sirca and Woodside Energy.
鈥淚t鈥檚 about being able to take our place on the world stage and work with like-minded people on major projects,鈥� he says.
Cisco Innovation Centres aim to catalyse and showcase innovation and development, bringing together customers, industry partners, start-ups, application developers, government organisations and universities.
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