Fleet Management IoT Platform
Multi-tenant vehicle telemetry with CAN-integrated devices and near-real-time dashboards.
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Capability
IoT Development Services in Australia
Device fleets that stay online, from silicon to cloud. We design the devices, write the firmware, run the connectivity, build the ingest pipeline and the dashboards your operations team actually uses - one Melbourne team accountable for the whole loop.
Scope
What IoT development covers - and what it doesn't.
IoT is only useful when the whole loop works: a device that runs on the power it has, a link that survives its environment, a cloud that ingests reliably, and a dashboard people actually open. We build the whole loop because most IoT programs fail at the seam between one of these layers - and no single-layer vendor can fix it.
In scope
- Device design: sensors, connectivity, enclosure, power (mains, battery, solar)
- Radio choice, provisioning at scale, and secure onboarding
- Firmware with OTA and offline-first behaviour for bad links
- Cloud ingest: MQTT, HTTPS, message brokers, time-series storage
- Dashboards, alerting, and integration to your operations systems
- Device management: fleet health, remote diagnostics, staged rollout
- Data pipelines to Grafana, PowerBI, custom analytics
Honestly out of scope
- Reselling existing sensors or off-the-shelf gateways as a product
- Standalone consumer mobile apps with no device behind them
- Cellular carrier reselling or MVNO operations (we integrate carriers, we are not one)
- Managed 24/7 SOC or NOC operations after handover (we plan for it, you run it)
Outcomes
What you get out of it.
The point of an IoT program is not devices in a datasheet - it is data your operations team makes decisions on. Across the fleets we have shipped:
Fleets that stay online in the field
Devices we designed run on farms, streets, factory floors and 13 kV substations with cellular, LoRaWAN and hybrid links - and the offline-first firmware and store-and-forward paths that mean bad connectivity is a delay, not a data loss.
Provisioning that scales to production
Fleet onboarding through a scripted factory process, keys generated per device, and cloud registration automated - because typing serial numbers into a portal at unit 100 is a failure mode.
Dashboards operators actually open
Interfaces designed for the person who owns the outcome, not the person who owns the datasheet. Alerts that are actionable, not noise. Historic views for the auditor.
A migration path when the volume grows
Our ingest and storage decisions are made with 10x growth in view. Time-series backends, batched ingest, and message-queue architectures that do not fall over on the first big rollout.
Process
How a IoT program runs here.
Four phases with a real deliverable at each gate - you always know what you paid for and what ships next.
PHASE 01
Discover (paid week)
We start from the constraint that binds - power, latency, thermal, certification - and design backwards from it. You leave with a written architecture, a budget range and the risks named, whether or not we build it.
PHASE 02
Design
Schematics, mechanical and firmware architecture proceed in parallel. High-risk blocks get simulated or breadboarded before the full layout commits.
PHASE 03
Build
Iterative revisions against real bench and field testing. You see every revision, not just the last one. Integration is continuous, not a phase.
PHASE 04
Deploy
Pilot in the field, closure with the contract manufacturer, production test procedures, and a commissioning-grade handover pack.
Technologies
What we build on - chosen per constraint, not per preference.
The platforms we reach for most. If a project needs something not on this list, we say so - the tool is chosen for the constraint, never to fit our habits.
LoRaWAN (AU915)NB-IoT / LTE-M4G cellularBLE 5.xWi-Fi 6MQTT / MQTT-SNHTTPS + RESTCoAPAWS IoT CoreAzure IoT HubThingsBoardInfluxDBTimescaleDBGrafana
Industries
Where IoT we ship runs today.
AgriTech
Farm sensor networks, autonomous hydroponics, remote irrigation control.
Industrial IoT
Plant-floor telemetry, OEE dashboards, condition monitoring.
Smart cities
Street-scale sensing networks with mesh and cellular hybrids.
Energy
Grid instrumentation, meter fleets, battery-storage telemetry.
Deliverables & IP
What ships to you at handover.
Every IoT program hands over: device design files (schematics, layouts, mechanical), firmware source with OTA tooling, provisioning scripts and factory keys, cloud infrastructure as code (Terraform or vendor CDK), dashboards as configuration (Grafana JSON, PowerBI packs), API documentation, runbook for common failure modes, and a device-management playbook. All foreground IP transfers on payment.
Case studies
Programs we shipped in this space.
Every entry links to the full case study - constraints, what we built, and what it measured afterwards.
Urban Infrastructure IoT Network
City-scale mesh + cellular fleet for street lighting and environmental sensing.
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Cold Chain Integrity Recorder
Ultra-low-power loggers with store-and-forward through intermittent cellular.
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Compliance
Radio, privacy and security compliance from day one.
Every Australian IoT device carries the RCM; radio components add ACMA class-licence obligations. We design the radio hardware and firmware to sit inside those obligations - channel plans, duty cycles, transmit power - and we run pre-compliance emissions checks before booking chamber time.
Cloud-side, we design for the privacy expectations of the data class (Australian Privacy Principles for personal data, sector obligations for utility or medical telemetry) and put encryption at rest and in transit as the default, not the upgrade. For industrial deployments we align with IEC 62443 principles for OT-side security - segmented networks, least-privilege device credentials, and audited access to control-plane surfaces.
FAQ
IoT Development Services in Australia - straight answers.
A prototype-to-pilot IoT program: AUD $25,000-$80,000. Production-ready with certification and cloud: AUD $60,000-$200,000+. Fleet management and dashboards: AUD $15,000-$60,000+ on top. See our full <a href="/blog/iot-product-development-cost-australia.html">IoT cost guide</a> for detailed bands.
Constraint decides. Long-life battery-powered nodes covering large areas - LoRaWAN. Anywhere-connectivity with modest power - cellular (NB-IoT for low-throughput, LTE-M for higher). Indoor-only, plentiful power - Wi-Fi. Every project gets this decision made with the deployment environment, not the datasheet, in view.
Yes - we integrate to AWS IoT, Azure IoT Hub, Google Cloud IoT (where still available), self-hosted ThingsBoard, or your own APIs. We also build custom ingest and dashboards from scratch when needed.
Firmware is designed offline-first: local buffering, store-and-forward, exponential backoff, and reconciliation on reconnect. Devices are expected to lose connectivity - the system does not degrade when they do.
We design for RCM/ACMA from day one and run pre-compliance emissions checks. Formal chamber time is booked with an accredited lab; we manage the process end-to-end and hand you the certification pack.
You do. Data ownership is in the contract, and the cloud infrastructure we build sits under your accounts, not ours. We do not run a managed service that ties you to us.
Why Incendio
One team, no seam between vendors.
Because most IoT programs fail at a seam - between the device and the network, between the network and the cloud, between the cloud and the dashboard. We hold every layer of that stack in one team, so when something breaks in the field there is one number to call and one team debugging - not four vendors pointing at each other. The proof is public: open our live demos and drive them.
Related practices: embedded systems development, cloud software development, industrial automation, edge AI.
Start
Tell us the constraint that worries you most.
A latency budget, a power budget, a certification date. We reply within one business day - and we’ll say so if we’re not the right team.