{"id":570,"date":"2019-10-22T22:53:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T12:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.productdesignsoftware.com.au\/?p=570"},"modified":"2024-05-06T14:39:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T03:39:53","slug":"the-state-of-iot-and-ar-vr-what-have-we-learnt-travelling-to-recent-events-across-anz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leapaust.com.au\/blog\/dx\/the-state-of-iot-and-ar-vr-what-have-we-learnt-travelling-to-recent-events-across-anz\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of IoT and AR\/VR \u2013 what have we learnt travelling to recent events across ANZ?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Over the last month the team at LEAP has really clocked up the frequent flyer miles, travelling to a range of events across Australia and New Zealand, including a Hackathon in Auckland, government facilitated technology seminars across Queensland, an IoT conference\/exhibition in Sydney and student showcase in Melbourne.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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September saw the LEAP PTC team head to New Zealand to help mentor students during the 2019 IoT\/AR Hackathon, held in conjunction with the University of Auckland<\/span><\/a> &\u00a0Callaghan Innovation<\/span><\/a>. Judges included experts from both the university, Callaghan Innovation as well as a representative from the New Zealand IoT Alliance<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 During the Hackathon, University of Auckland students across 6 teams tackled real world problems supplied by a diverse range of local companies with the goal of harnessing the power of IoT and AR to provide innovative solutions with solid business case that could make a real-world impact in NZ.<\/p>

The Hackathon format provides a unique experience for participants; students from multi-disciplinary backgrounds work together and with industry to understand the problems faced by businesses, then apply ThingWorx IoT and Vuforia Studio AR software to rapdily develop a solution.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The condensed nature of the program (competing over just 2 days) means that teams must be agile, conceptualising a solution quickly then implementing it just as fast.\u00a0 In turn, businesses gain valuable insight into how IoT and AR tools can be adopted to solve existing problems, quickly and without protracted or expensive software deployment.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Speaking during the Hackathon, industry partners Callaghan Innovation<\/span><\/a> expressed the importance of such events in order to both raise awareness of the current technology that is now available to help address problems that local companies are facing, but also to carefully consider the business case and potential ROI of the solutions.\u00a0 \u2018We see industry 4.0 as really important for New Zealand businesses as it really sets them up for increased productivity and opens up new business models as well\u2019 explains Phil Anderson, Callaghan Innovation.\u00a0 \u2019One of the challenges for business is not getting too caught up with the shiny lights of technology because at the end of the day there has to be a business case, so I think these hackathons are really good to get the students thinking about \u2013 what is that business case? What will that return of investment be for the business? Not just how the technology will help solve the problem.\u2019<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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LEAP has also recently joined the New Zealand IoT Alliance<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 The IoT Alliance aims to actively contribute to the prosperity of New Zealand through accelerating the uptake of IoT and LEAP is excited to be joining the long list of innovative member companies and working together with them to achieve this goal.\u00a0 As John McDermott of the IoT Alliance describes, \u2018We aim to bridge that gap between what the technology can do and what people need it to do… closing the gap on the business case and business model and showing people that the technology is lower risk than what they might perceive it to be. It\u2019s faster to deploy than they might realise and to actually encourage New Zealand industry to realise what IoT can do in connecting the real world to solve problems for people.\u2019<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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For companies starting out on their journey of digital transformation the IoT Alliance provides valuable insight into all aspects of the process from understanding connectivity, devices and other enabling infrastructure and issues around cyber security to learning how to assess the business value of IoT and how to deliver a successful pilot project.\u00a0 The wealth and diversity of knowledge shared by the council and member companies can dramatically accelerate the digital transformation for any business.<\/p>

On the 15-16th<\/sup> of October LEAP participated in the IoT Impact conference<\/a> held in Sydney where several great presentations from \u2018mature\u2019 IoT implementations were given.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The event hosted over 60 speakers across different streams such as smart cities, food & agribusiness, water and energy management, transport and manufacturing.\u00a0 The conference provided the opportunity for local manufacturers to learn from a variety of successful pilot projects and implementations, and clearly demonstrated the rapidly growing maturity of the IoT market in Australia.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Also evident at IoT Impact was the explosion in hardware providers aiming at the IoT market. \u00a0With a broad range of connectivity options now available, companies are able to carefully consider their own unique requirements before implementing the right connectivity solution, including consideration of:<\/p>