Telstra’s general manager of IoT product engineering, Alan Crouch, has put out a call for more engineers to join the telco’s IoT team.
Writing on Telstra’s Exchange blog, Crouch singled out the consumer market as a significant potential growth area for Telstra’s IoT business, along with and smart cities, asset tracking, intelligent vehicles, smart metering, and precision agriculture.
The move follows a year in which Telstra has ramped up its focus on IoT, with Crouch saying IoT presented a major opportunity for Telstra in its drive to transition from telco to a “world class technology company”.
“This means we get to work on some pretty cool and innovative products such as intelligent vehicles, smart metering, precision agriculture, asset tracking and smart cities. We also get to create a fantastic new smart home customer experience for families across Australia,” Crouch said.
He said Telstra had a team working on software and systems development, rapid customer experience improvement and on improving operations/uptime for Telstra IoT end-to-end services.
“We have a continuous integration, continuous delivery (CICD) workflow. That means we use agile best practices including having daily stand-ups, prioritised backlog, and user stories to put our IoT customers at the centre of everything we do.”