Joseph Bradley, vice president IoE practise, Cisco Consulting Services, and Ros Harvey, chief strategy advisor, Sirca and founder of Sense-T at the University of Tasmania.

Cisco's investment in the Internet of Things (IoT) will help Australia's key industries push into the 21st century, especially in areas of agriculture, resources, and astronomy.

The company announced its Internet of Everything (IoE; its version of IoT) centre will be located in Sydney at Sirca, an organisation owned by 40 universities across Australia and New Zealand, and in Perth at the Curtin University campus, contributing $15 million over five years.

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CiscoLive! 2015 saw the assembling of key experts that have worked on the project, including Joseph Bradley, vice president IoE practise, Cisco Consulting Services; Kevin Bloch, CTO Cisco A/NZ; Dr Michael Briars, CEO, Sirca; Professor Steven Tingay, research fellow, director of the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy; and Ros Harvey, chief strategy advisor, Sirca; and founder of Sense-T at the University of Tasmania.

Bradley, who is responsible for leading Cisco's IoE vision worldwide, says that there remains some confusion over the nature of the Internet of Everything, not just from end user consumers, but in terms of those that are expected to deploy it. Questions of the value proposition abound.

"The IoE value is not in the things in and of themselves, but the connection between them," he said.

Even after the assets are connected, it becomes more about how data should be structured to make it usable. Then the application of analytics to that data is how the major value will be extracted, and how it is applied.

"Big Data is nothing without big judgement," he said.

The opportunity from 'dark assets', that is, something that's not connected to the internet today, is vast, he said.

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