Australia is lagging in the rapidly emerging area of the Internet of Things (IoT), according to the Communications Alliance.
The organisation earlier this year set up an Internet of Things (IoT) Think Tank and has now released details of its forthcoming report on IoT in Australia.
Co-author of the report, Frank Zeichner, told a Comms Alliance briefing: “When we look overseas it is evident that our peers and our customers are more advanced in their IoT strategy than we are. You can read it; you can see it. Here there is nothing.”
Comms Alliance’s final report, due in September or October, will recommend Australia set a goal that, by mid 2016, the nation has an active IoT community on par with international developments.
The draft report makes 10 recommendations, the primary one being that Australia develop a national IoT strategy that includes regulatory and policy settings to “drive IoT leadership, alignment, awareness and opportunity initially within sectors, and longer-term across sectors.”
Zeichner said the study had identified a lack of data sharing as the biggest impediment to development of an IoT industry in Australia. – Stuart Corner