{"id":66076,"date":"2018-02-17T00:26:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T16:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/myriota-to-establish-iot-lab-in-adelaide-2\/"},"modified":"2018-02-17T00:26:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T16:26:03","slug":"myriota-to-establish-iot-lab-in-adelaide-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/myriota-to-establish-iot-lab-in-adelaide-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Myriota to Establish IOT Lab in Adelaide"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>South Australian satcom company <strong>Myriota<\/strong> will open a $2.72 million Internet of Things (IOT) laboratory in Adelaide to help meet the demand for its technology. The South Australian government\u2019s Future Jobs Fund will match Myriota\u2019s $1.36 million investment to equip the new office.<\/p>\n<p>Myriota\u2019s technology&nbsp;involves tiny satellite transmitters that send low powered messages directly to a constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) nanosatellites. These satellites relay the messages to Earth where they are decoded and sent to the end user.<\/p>\n<p>Last September, Myriota announced it was developing a matchbox-sized sensor to track the movement and performance of soldiers on the battlefield in an AU$700,000 ($553,700) deal with the <strong>Australian Department of Defense<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Myriota Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Alex Grant said the laboratory will allow the company to scale up production and further integrate this technology into more systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur low-cost IOT system has been deployed in field trials for months now, and there are hundreds of companies here and overseas interested in using our product to provide connectivity for a huge range of applications,\u201d Grant said. \u201cThis new IOT lab will enable us to build on our core technology and apply it across a wide range of industries including agriculture, defense, utilities, environmental monitoring, asset tracking and logistics.<\/p>\n<p>Grant said the new lab would create more than 50 new jobs in IT and advanced manufacturing, including highly skilled software and hardware developers, data networking and satellite communications professionals.<\/p>\n<p>According to Grant, Myriota has the potential to undertake production runs of millions of units for export in the coming years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Australian satcom company Myriota will open a $2.72 million Internet of Things (IOT) laboratory in Adelaide to help meet the demand for its technology. The South Australian government\u2019s Future Jobs Fund will match Myriota\u2019s $1.36 million investment to equip the new office. Myriota\u2019s technology&nbsp;involves tiny satellite transmitters that send low powered messages directly to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}