A mission control centre for a fleet of 100 tiny satellites will be set up in Adelaide's western suburbs, with plans to use the constellation to increase efficiency in industries from agriculture to logistics.

Local company Fleet Space Technologies has been developing the nanosatellites, with the first due to launch this year.

The company's chief executive, Flavia Tata Nardini, said the satellites will connect into the so-called 'internet of things' — a term used to describe the increasing interconnectivity of electronic devices.

"Everything we have done so far was to connect people. Now we are connecting things," Ms Tata Nardini said.

"There are 75 billion devices coming online to help agriculture, mining, oil and gas, logistics, maritime to finally connect, to improve efficiency. It's a big vision."

The mission control will be based in Beverley and will operate 24 hours a day, making sure the satellites are in the right position and are sending and receiving the right information.

Fleet plans to have dozens of tiny satellites in orbit for a variety of uses. ( Supplied: Fleet Space Technologies )

Ms Tata Nardini said the system will be particularly useful for people operating in remote areas.

"We are talking about a farmer who wants to deploy a thousand sensors to measure soil moisture, water station, animal tracking, temperature, everything you've got in mind — that would improve the efficiency of how they operate so much," she said.

"It's not because farmers don't want to improve the way they operate, it's because connectivity is absent. 3G or 4G, it's struggled for us in Australia and in the world."

Treasurer Tom's major ground control investment

The SA Government awarded Fleet Space Technologies $500,000 from its future jobs fund, to help it set up the new mission control.

The company employed 20 people in the last nine months, and plans to hire 17 more to operate the centre.

Fleet chief executive Flavia Tata Nardini and SA Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis. ( ABC News: Nick Harmsen )

Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis said the investment will help expand the state's growing space industry.

"Imagine the productivity improvement South Australia can get as we're exporting our produce, knowing we can monitor it in real time as it's being shipped across seas where there's no connectivity," he said.

"Imagine being able to monitor large stations of cattle and their movement using nanosatellites being launched through a mission control based here in Adelaide."

Ms Tata Nardini said she is attracting staff from all over the world, particularly Australians who left the country to work in space industries overseas.

"We started this business here because I met a South Australian man and I moved here, but what is more important is the support we received," she said.

"South Australia is becoming a space hub in this country and Fleet is one of the most global companies building nanosatellites."

Fleet says the mission control centre will be built in six to seven months.