Spark New Zealand to commence nationwide Internet of Things network

Spark New Zealand has today announced that it has commenced the development of a nationwide low power wide area (‘LPWA’) network to enable the Internet of Things (‘IoT’). Spark’s GM for IoT, Michael Stribling, said: At Spark our Ventures team has been working on the exciting possibilities of the internet of things and what it could mean for New Zealand. We are moving to take a leadership position in IoT because we already have a lot of capabilities needed to make the most of a more connected world – we have the world-class network, we have the platforms, and we have the big data analytics power of Qrious to make sense of the torrent of information that will be created from networks of sensors connecting the things around us.