Beyond the Resources Boom:Technology Innovation is Key to Future Prosperity

Dr Alex ZelinskyGroup Executive, Information Sciences

6500+ staff over 57 locations

4,000+ Patent portfolio of CSIRO innovation

170 spin-off companies (20 in last 6 years)

Ranked in top 1% in 15 research fields

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Building national prosperity and wellbeing

Your CSIRO

Australian current account balance of payments, 1988-2008

Australia is well positioned in the global economy

The future – driven by what sector?

2015

• Simply put, ‘services’ are…

“Anything you can’t drop on your foot”, or

“Anything you can’t put in a box and ship”, or

- John Harvey, IBM

“People doing something for other people for value”

- Ravi Namane, UCalif Berkeley

What are we talking about?

*Services gross value added, i.e. the difference between the value of goods and services produced and the cost of raw materials and other inputs which are used up in production.

Services gross value added

Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2006

Breakdown of the 80% of Services economy

= Knowledge IntensiveServices

FINANCIAL ENERGY ENVIRONMENTHEALTH

Global provision of World-class Services

AGRICULTURE

Using Information and Communication Technologies to enhanceexisting industries by the provision of innovative new services.

$36b Infrastructure roll-out over 5 – 8 years.Creates the opportunity to Innovate

Enabling the Services EconomyNational Broadband Network for Australia

• NBN will connect:• 93% homes, schools and workplaces

with fibre to the premises (FTTP) • 100 megabits per second (Mbps)

• Remaining 7% with wireless and satellite technologies

• 12 Mbp (1-3 Mbp Uplink)

The true potential of the NBN is in providing access to high speed, reliable communications to all Australians. Symmetric data rates means users can contribute to significant content creation.

What are we doing? Broadband Innovation

Enable services for broadband

Ensure everyone gets symmetric

access

Change the way people can interactwith the technology

Financial Services Innovation TransferWise - the Skype of currency exchange

• TransferWise gives all customers access to the mid-market exchange rates that banks use on interbank market, with a flat fee of £1 for each transaction regardless of the amount being exchanged.

• Matching those that need to convert money each way – peer to peer.• A disruptive business model to Bank Forex

Broadband InnovationWhatsapp - SMS Game Changer

WhatsApp is a cross-platform mobile short messaging app which allows you to exchange messages without paying for SMS. WhatsApp uses the same internet data plan that you use for email and web browsing.After registering your phone number Whatsapp automatically discovers other contacts in your phone.A disruptive technology to Telco – SMS revenue (like international call revenue) will become seriously compromised.

National Broadband: The health care challenge

Health expenditure in excess of $110 billion, accounts for over 9% of Australia’s GDP

New cost-effective services must be developed to meet the needs of the health system, the hospital,

the doctor and the patient

Innovative health servicesVirtual Critical Care Unit (ViCCU)

Katoomba Hospital

Nepean Hospital

Gbit link using State Rail fibre

ViCCU proven in clinical trials to be effective with over 501 patients treated over 18 months.

NBN ready – Bandwidth 70 megabits per sec required.

150 km

NBN – A new National Challenge –Wireless Broadband Technologies

• Bringing high-speed broadband internet access of 100Mbps to rural and remote areas of Australia.

NBN Challenge CSIRO – Rural Broadband access @ 100 Mbps• CSIRO patented technologies• Re-use existing broadcasting infrastructure• Beamform signals to individual households • Requires reallocation of 56Mhz VHF/UHF analog TV spectrum• Research underway – technology is undergoing field trials with NBN• Tailored solution suitable ONLY for rural, remote and regional access

50-100 km

BIG Data Source – Sensor Networks

CPU

Radio

Interfaces

Antenna

Power

CSIRO platform: Fleck

Sensor networks: Fleck Sensor boards

•Light, temperature

•Water quality: pH, temp, conductivity

•Soil moisture

•Motion: GPS, acceleration, gyro, magnetometer

•Strain gauges

•DSP: audio, video

Sensor networks: Self Organising (Ad hoc)

No infrastucture

Handles node or link failure

Nodes canbe mobile

Advanced Technology Platform for Services Sensor network applications

Smart AgricultureFarm sensor network - test bed

Smart Agriculture ServicesVirtual Fencing

• Restrict the movement of cattle past "virtual fences" in paddocks or around environmentally sensitive areas.

Smart Agricultural Services Bull Separation

Animal form a peer-to-peer networkSensor network predicts aggressive behaviour in bulls

Smart Farming

Smart Agriculture Services: The Future

• Bring together multiple technologies and associated services in agriculture, is a game changer!

Virtual Fencing

Remote Sensing + WSNSensor Networks

PrecisionIrrigation

Sensors network applications

Innovative Water ServicesLake Wivenhoe wireless sensor network

• Storage scale wireless sensor network• 45 “WivenNodes”• 5 “SuperNodes”• 70 Catchment nodes

• WivenNodes• Dedicated CPU with ad-hoc routing• Temperature string (6 depths)• Communications range: >1km• Solar panel and navigation light

Innovative Water ServicesLake Wivenhoe Network

CSIRO. Sensors and Sensor Networks Transformational Capability Platform. Michael Brünig.

Paradigm shift in water quality monitoring

• 1 sample / day (week)• Labour intensive• Weather dependant• Bad temporal resolution

• 1 sample every 2 hours• High cost• Bad spatial resolution

• 1 sample / minute• Low cost• Robust (redundancy)• High spatial resolution• High temporal resolution

Improved water servicesUsing water quality measurements

• Closing the loop between modeling and real world observation• Calibrating water quality models• Enabling real time event detection and decision making

Source: Seqwater

Water ServicesAustralian Water Resources Assessment (AWRA)

Information published at any nodeis visible to the nation via web services

CSIRO is partnering with the Bureau of Meteorology

landscape hydrological

model aquifer models

rivermodel

surfacewater

groundwater

top soil

deep soil

shallow soil

ET

optimumtranspiration

maximumuptake

adjustment

Land cover

Evaporative energy Precipitation

Water ServicesAustralian Water Resources Assessment (AWRA)

How does model-data fusion work?Example: rainfall

0 32 72 108 144 180

Blended rainfall product for 5 January 2005

satellite rainfall product

Rainfall gauge density

Total water storage1 February 2010Total soil and ground water storage combined, compared to average for this day for 1980-2009

Water ServicesExample Reports

CSIRO.

Emergency management servicesToowoomba Flash Floods

Emergency management services

Simulation of dam collapse in China.

Data IntegrationFocus on the interoperability of existing data sets pertinent to natural resources management

Reporting and Visualisation SystemsFocus on the provision of a system of web-based reporting tools to suit different end-users

Modelling and Forecasting SystemsFocus on the implementation of accounting and forecasting tools linked to interoperable data sources

Sensorisation ProgramFocus on improving natural resource monitoring

Standards & Access

Focus on the development and promulgation of interoperability standards and inter-agency agreements for sharing data

Ability to link data and models and report results via a common web interface

Cross-jurisdictional agreements on data sharing, security and access protocols

Standards for provenance, accountability and auditability

Information Value Chain

EndUsers

Agencies

Industry

Government

Service Providers

Standard Setters

Summary of Opportunities & Issues

Opportunities• NBN to drive innovation in Service-driven applications World• Data-driven World with Scale and Complexity• Location-aware Things

Issues• No enterprise or entity can own the whole information value chain• Governments are cooperating on collection and access to data,

creating room for industry-led services innovation• Data access and ownership, including provenance and audit-ability • Standardised service interfaces, otherwise every product is bespoke

with unmanageable maintenance overhead• Creates high dependencies on information service platforms for

currency and reliability (otherwise lots of re-engineering)

Contact UsPhone: 1300 363 400 or +61 3 9545 2176

Email: enquiries@csiro.au Web: www.csiro.au

Thank you

Dr Alex ZelinskyGroup Executive,Information SciencesPhone: +61 2 9490 5620Email: Alex.Zelinsky@csiro.auWeb: www.csiro.au