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Best Internet of Things - Industry Applications Companies in Brisbane, Australia

The 43 best Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies in Brisbane, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: WearOptimo.

43companies tracked
$13.4Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
9have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · INTERNET OF THINGS - INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS × BRISBANE

Our analysis of 184 Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies

$13.9b in tracked funding; 91% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

184companies analysed
91%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
11unicorns
2016median founding year
67kcombined LinkedIn audience
62%of audience held by top 3
1companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies in Brisbane

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackRecent signals
1WearOptimo
Developer of wearable sensor technology for real-time personal health monitoring
$5M45 mo agoSeries AMark Kendall
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
2018WordPressMySQLPHP+23—
2HINDSITE
Provider of wearable and cloud-based visual intelligence management platform
$3M57 mo agoSeedDoug Hastings
Founder & CEO
2017WebflowCannyAmazon Web Services+21—
3Find-Me Technologies
Watch with tracking and safety features for adults.
$3M128 mo agoDeadpooledElvis Nunes
Founder Director
2006——
4mOOvement
Provider of GPS enabled ear tags for cattle tracking
$1M64 mo agoSeedPieter Vogels
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
2017WebflowAmazon ALBReact+16—
5Advanced Mobility Analytics
Provider of AI and computer vision-based solutions for road transport
$750K64 mo agoAcquiredTarek Sayed
Co-Founder
2019——
6Conpago
Provider of a cloud-based digital care management platform for aged, disability, retirement, and home care…
$100K89 mo agoSeed—2016——
7Interlate
Data analytics solution for mining and mineral processing industries
—84 mo agoSeed—2016——
8Future Fleet
Provider of fleet tracking and fleet management
—151 mo agoAcquired—2003WordPressMySQLPHP+141 launch · 2 partnerships

Top 8 Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies in Brisbane

#1
Series A · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2018 · 35 employees
$5Mraised
▾

Developer of wearable sensor technology for real-time personal health monitoring. The company focuses on creating microwearable sensors that capture data from the body's bio-signals. These sensors allow for the detection and treatment of health issues. The initial product is a hydration microwearable sensor designed for continuous monitoring. The technology aims to improve physical and mental performance through advanced machine learning.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers — 6.7% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2022Series A$5M
Founders & team
Mark KendallFounder & Chief Executive Officer
Tech stack
<Model-Viewer>Core-JsElementorFont AwesomeHello ElementorHttp/3
#2
Seed · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2017 · 12 employees
$3.2Mraised
▾

Provider of wearable and cloud-based visual intelligence management platform. Provides geo-located site data including images, videos, walkthroughs, handovers, biometrics, and sensor data from wearables. Users can receive task-specific, geo-located micro-learning content and the technology supports real-Time IIoT third-party sensor visualization & diagnostics solutions. Allows users to reduce the time of resolution through data interaction on the VIEW (Visual Intelligence Education Wearables) platform through the use of the hd streaming calling feature and smart glasses. Enables visual intelligence management and has applications in enterprise data, industrial media, and observational learning.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers — 5.6% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2021Seed$3.2M
  • 2018Seed—
Founders & team
Doug HastingsFounder & CEO
Investors
ACAC Innovation
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesCannyCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-Js
#3
Seed · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2017 · 10 employees
$1.3Mraised
▾

Provider of GPS-enabled ear tags for cattle tracking. It caters to the needs of bull tamers. Its features include it provides information on of best performing bull, geo-fencing, water availability and consumption data, reusable, periodical reports, and an integrable mobile app. Its app is available on Android and iOS platforms.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 3 product launches · 1 partnerships (incl. AgriProve) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2021Seed$1.3M
Founders & team
Pieter VogelsCo-Founder & Co-CEO
Investors
Future Food Fund
#4
Acquired · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2019 · 26 employees
$750Kraised
▾

Provider of AI and computer vision-based solutions for road transport. It offers AI-based video analytics solutions that can analyse and identify traffic safety issues. Its features include safety monitoring dashboards, notification alerts, diagnostic risk mitigation insights, adaptive traffic signal plugin, and real-time risk optimization. It also measures crowd and vehicle flows, speeds, trajectories, violations, and crash risk with other road users.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2021Grant (prize money)$750K
Founders & team
Tarek SayedCo-FounderSimon WashingtonManaging Director and Chief Executive Officer
Investors
business.gov.au
#5
Deadpooled · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2006
$3Mraised
▾

Find-Me Technologies has developed a watch called Carers Watch for tracking and monitoring of elders. The watch can receive calls from any landline or mobile and has a GPS that can monitor wearer's location. The device has features like panic alert button (with two-way voice communication), fall detection, geo-fencing, medication reminders, speed alert and 24/7 call center support.

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2015Series A$3M
Founders & team
Elvis NunesFounder Director
Investors
One Ventures
#6
Seed · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2016 · 9 employees
$100Kraised
▾

Provider of a cloud-based digital care management platform for aged, disability, retirement, and home care providers. The platform helps in communication, facility management, maintenance, content publishing, and feedback tracking. It also offer an App for customer that delivers chat, appointments, event calendars, service requests, feedback tools, and personalised content.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers — 4.4% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2019Seed—
  • Jun 2018Seed$100K
Investors
Slingshot, muru-D, River City Labs
Tech stack
WebflowUnpkgJqueryGoogle Hosted LibrariesGoogle AnalyticsJsdelivr
#7
Seed · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2016 · 17 employees
—raised
▾

Interlate develops data analytics solutions for mining and mineral processing industries. The products developed by the company allows the user to collect and analyse the data from various sources to get real-time insights about the production process. The company has developed 4 solutions namely: Assessment analyses various factors to indentify the areas of improvement in the production process, Sentinel analyses the time sensitive data to give insights about the production process in real time and Guardian tracks the progress of targeted improvements. The company also offers an Alliance service that allows the users to accelerate its project development by taking the help from technical domain experts and technology partners of the company.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers — 4.6% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. iMine Simon Birch Mahluli Dube Adam Flegman) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Aug 2019Grant (prize money)—
  • Jan 2017Seed—
Investors
Western Technology Investment
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpBootstrapYoast SeoApache Http Server
#8
Acquired · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2003 · 11 employees
—raised
▾

Provider of fleet tracking and fleet management. It provides users with GPS fleet management systems and GPS vehicle, asset and trailer tracking solutions to businesses. It also provides users with advanced GPS solutions such as solar-powered trailer monitoring, remote reefer temperature control management and wild game meat field depot temperature monitoring.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 446 LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 product launches · 2 partnerships (incl. Orcoda Limited's Transport360) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2013Seed—
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpApache Http Server

Funding & investor landscape

$13.4Mtotal disclosed funding
6companies funded
6disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
River City Labs2 rounds
muru-D2 rounds
ACAC Innovation1 rounds
FUELD Accelerator1 rounds
Four Hats Capital1 rounds
Future Food Fund1 rounds
Kerala Startup Mission1 rounds
One Ventures1 rounds
Slingshot1 rounds
Techstars1 rounds

Notable founders

Mark Kendall
Founder & Chief Executive Officer · WearOptimo
Doug Hastings
Founder & CEO · HINDSITE
Pieter Vogels
Co-Founder & Co-CEO · mOOvement
Tarek Sayed
Co-Founder · Advanced Mobility Analytics
Simon Washington
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer · Advanced Mobility Analytics
Elvis Nunes
Founder Director · Find-Me Technologies
Prism market signals · Australia · country-scoped Prism corpus, 3,310,101 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Internet of Things - Industry Applications coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH SIGNALS · Australia

How research on Internet of Things is moving in Australia

A read on the academic research around Internet of Things — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 930 Australia-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
200920192026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 27% → 50% across 2009–2026.
top research entities
  • UNSW Sydney103
  • Deakin University83
  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation52
  • University of Technology Sydney52
  • University College London51
leading researchers
Deepak Mishra · Nour Moustafa · Aruna Seneviratne · Wei Xiang · Qing‐Long Han · Benjamin Turnbull · Mamoun Alazab · Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay
▲ Breakthroughs416 · 45%
▲ 28%→50% share
▲1.8× share momentum0 median citations84% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (28%→50% of field), led by Computer security.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Computer security6→62
  • Wireless1→51
  • Scalability1→34
  • Computer network6→38
  • Intrusion detection system1→30
Newly emergingKey (lock) 0→22 · Embedded system 0→22 · Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution 0→16
Landmark An Information Framework for Creating a Smart City Through Internet of Things · 1,317 cites
◆ Advancements253 · 27%
▼ 32%→27% share
▼0.8× share momentum1 median citations75% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are cooling (32%→27% of field), led by Computer security.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Computer security3→22
  • Computer network5→24
  • Wireless4→21
  • Software deployment1→10
  • Key (lock)3→12
Newly emergingEmbedded system 0→13 · Big data 0→10 · Sustainability 0→7
Landmark Blockchain for IoT security and privacy: The case study of a smart home · 1,735 cites
▼ Concerns182 · 20%
▼ 28%→16% share
▼0.6× share momentum143 median citations62% since 2021mostly reviews
Concerns are cooling (28%→16% of field), led by Computer security.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Computer security7→29
  • World Wide Web1→12
  • Smart city6→16
  • Internet privacy2→12
  • Cloud computing7→16
Newly emergingSoftware deployment 0→7 · Transformative learning 0→7 · Scalability 0→6
Landmark 6G Internet of Things: A Comprehensive Survey · 1,268 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Australia

Where iot is researched across Australia

Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.

Sydney279 · +0.55
Hot · Internet of ThingsAdvancing · WirelessOpportunity · Identification (biology)Concern · World Wide Web
Melbourne242 · +0.48
Hot · Internet of ThingsAdvancing · Embedded systemOpportunity · Industrial InternetConcern · Internet privacy
Brisbane64 · +0.43
Hot · Smart cityAdvancing · Wireless sensor networkOpportunity · Software deploymentConcern · Sustainability
Canberra39 · +0.48
Hot · BotnetAdvancing · Intrusion detection systemOpportunity · Vulnerability (computing)Concern · Internet of Things
Perth22 · +0.59
Hot · Wireless sensor networkAdvancing · Key (lock)Opportunity · Computer network
Adelaide17 · +0.56
Hot · Wireless sensor networkAdvancing · Transmission (telecommunications)Opportunity · Internet of Things

Common questions

How many Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies are there in Brisbane, Australia?
Radar tracks 43 indexable Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies headquartered in Brisbane, Australia that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies in Brisbane, Australia?
The Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies in Brisbane, Australia on this list have raised a combined $13.4M in disclosed equity funding across 6 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Internet of Things - Industry Applications company in Brisbane, Australia?
WearOptimo is the highest-funded Internet of Things - Industry Applications company in Brisbane, Australia, with $5M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies in Brisbane, Australia are funded?
6 of the 43 Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies in Brisbane, Australia on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Internet of Things - Industry Applications unicorns are there in Brisbane, Australia?
None of the Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies in Brisbane, Australia on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Brisbane, Australia Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies?
The most active investors in Brisbane, Australia Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies on this list include River City Labs, muru-D, ACAC Innovation, FUELD Accelerator, Four Hats Capital.
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