Telecommunications giant Telstra has Australia’s first public Internet of Things (IoT) innovation lab in Melbourne.
According to a report in the Financial Review, Telstra Chief Technology Officer Hakan Eriksson said the GSMA Mobile IoT Open Lab would be open to anyone from high school students to large corporations, with the aim of providing innovators with an environment to test their ideas and build new devices.
All of Telstra’s innovation and technology development projects will come under the Telstra Labs. It will also house the development of some of the company’s blue sky ideas, such as a prototype it has developed for an app which would utilise augmented reality technology to show a user on their smartphone how to set up a WiFi router without needing a manual.