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By Michelle Howie
20/12/21
Good APIs Start with the Docs: Telstra’s 2021 Developer...
Have you ever looked at an API’s specs and thought, “but what can you REALLY do?”...

By Daniel Simpson
17/12/21
“Code First” Azure Digital Twins
Azure Digital Twins is a platform that enables you to create live digital twin graphs representing e...

By Michelle Howie
25/10/21
IoT Insights for Sustainable Regional Agribusiness: GovHack...
Everyone knows about Australia's world leading #agriculture exports. But lesser k...
By Quinn Tran
25/9/21
Be Daring, Be Creative with Computer Vision and the...
Technology has increasingly become a significant part of the creative process from art to sign langu...

By Michelle Howie
15/7/21
Real Time SMS alerts for dropped devices
So in part 1 and part 2 of this workshop series, we’ve gone through how we can poll...

By Michelle Howie
15/7/21
Ask for Environmental Sensor Data via SMS
If you have an environmental sensor set up in your home, office, farm etc and want to check the temp...

By Michelle Howie
15/7/21
Control your IoT Device remotely with SMS commands
Developing with the Internet of Things is fun. It’s challenging. It’s frustrating at tim...

By Michelle Howie
2/7/21
Changes to our IoT Developer Kit Offer
As developers ourselves, we understand that focus is a key to success. We’ve spoken to IoT dev...

By Tim McMahon
2/6/21
SMS alerts for hazardous air quality during bushfire season
I woke up one morning in January 2020 and discovered that the air quality in Melbourne had drop...

By Alan Quayle
18/5/21
Unlocking the Internet of Things with Telco APIs: Telstra’s...
As Australia’s longest serving telco, Telstra is expanding their developer program to provide...

By Sri Amirthalingam
31/3/21
Your regional mobile coverage questions answered
When developing an IoT solution for your business, coverage and access to a reliable network is crit...

By Michelle Howie
23/12/20
TelstraDev End of Year Wrap: 2020
We made it! Welcome to the end of 2020, may it soon be just a distant memory. Though it wasn’t...
By keith coutlemanis
10/11/20
Azure Internet of Things Garden Project with Arduino
I want to showcase a project I have been working on to reflect the interesting things you can do wit...

By Trent Steenholdt
10/11/20
Home IoT Project using Azure
In this blog series, I’m going to write about how Internet of Things (IoT) enabled my gate,...

By DIYODE Magazine
9/11/20
Hands On: Long Range IoT Arduino MKR NB 1500 over the...
We put the Arduino MKR NB 1500 to the test using the Telstra network and show you how to g...

By Michelle Howie
20/10/20
Data Driven IoT Insights for sustainable communities:...
In the second TelstraDev challenge for GovHack 2020 (part 1 on Communication APIs here), we asked:...

By Michelle Howie
20/10/20
Connecting our community in an emergency with mobile...
What do you get when you give 700 Hackers, Hustlers and Hipsters across Australia and New Zealand, a...

By Michelle Howie
1/9/20
Wireless Application Developers Guidelines for IoT
Are you developing with the cellular IoT network? There's loads of benefits like reducing payloa...

By Michelle Howie
26/8/20
Capture more insights with Captis Data Loggers!
Calling all IoT makers and innovators, there’s a new device on our IoT Marketplace!
It...

By Dave Bell
21/8/20
Telstra Innovation Hackathon 2020
Calling all startups, partners and employees of Australian corporates with a global presence; Regist...