Beyond The Resources Boom

1. Beyond the Resources Boom:
Technology Innovation is Key to Future Prosperity
Dr Alex Zelinsky
Group Executive, Information Sciences

2. Your CSIRO
Australia’s national science agency
One of the largest & most diverse in the world
6500+ staff over 57 locations
Ranked in top 1% in 15 research fields
170 spin-off companies (20 in last 6 years)
4,000+ Patent portfolio of CSIRO innovation
Building national prosperity and wellbeing

3. The future – driven by what sector?
Australia is well positioned in the global economy
2015
Australian current account balance of payments, 1988-2008

4. What are we talking about?
• 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

5. Breakdown of the 80% of Services economy
Services gross value added
=
Knowledge
Intensive
Services
*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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2006

6. Global provision of World-class Services
Using Information and Communication Technologies to enhance
existing industries by the provision of innovative new services.
FINANCIAL AGRICULTURE ENERGY HEALTH ENVIRONMENT

7. Enabling the Services Economy
National 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)
$36b Infrastructure roll-out over 5 – 8 years.
Creates the opportunity to Innovate

8. What are we doing?
Broadband Innovation
Ensure everyone
gets symmetric
access
Change the way
Enable services for people can interact
broadband with the technology
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.

9. 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

10. Broadband Innovation
Whatsapp - 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.

11. 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

12. Innovative health services
Virtual Critical Care Unit (ViCCU)
ViCCU proven in clinical trials to be effective with over 501
patients treated over 18 months.
NBN ready – Bandwidth 70 megabits per sec required.
Nepean Hospital
Gbit link using
Katoomba State Rail fibre
Hospital
150 km

13. NBN – A new National Challenge –
Wireless Broadband Technologies
• Bringing high-speed broadband
internet access of 100Mbps to rural
and remote areas of Australia.

14. 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

15. BIG Data Source – Sensor Networks

16. Interfaces
CPU
Antenna
Radio
Power
CSIRO platform: Fleck

17. Sensor networks: Fleck Sensor boards
• Light, temperature
• Water quality:
pH, temp, conductivity
• Soil moisture
• Motion: GPS, acceleration,
gyro, magnetometer
• Strain gauges
• DSP: audio, video

18. Sensor networks: Self Organising (Ad hoc)
Nodes can
No infrastucture be mobile
Handles node
or link failure

19. Advanced Technology Platform for Services
Sensor network applications

20. Smart Agriculture
Farm sensor network - test bed

21. Smart Agriculture Services
Virtual Fencing
• Restrict the movement of cattle past "virtual fences" in
paddocks or around environmentally sensitive areas.

22. Smart Agricultural Services
Bull Separation
Animal form a peer-to-peer network
Sensor network predicts aggressive behaviour in bulls

23. Smart Agriculture Services: The Future
• Bring together multiple technologies and associated services in
agriculture, is a game changer!
Precision
Irrigation
Virtual Fencing
Smart Farming
Sensor Networks
Remote Sensing + WSN

24. Sensors network applications

25. Innovative Water Services
Lake 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

26. Innovative Water Services
Lake Wivenhoe Network
CSIRO. Sensors and Sensor Networks Transformational Capability Platform. Michael Brünig.

27. 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

28. Improved water services
Using 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

29. Water Services
Australian Water Resources Assessment (AWRA)
Information published at any node
is visible to the nation via web services
CSIRO is partnering with the Bureau of Meteorology

30. Water Services
Australian Water Resources Assessment (AWRA)
Evaporative energy Precipitation
top soil
E
T
optimum shallow
transpiration soil
Land cover
maximum
deep surface
uptake
soil water
river
adjustment
ground
model
water
landscape
hydrological
model aquifer
models

31. How does model-data fusion work?
Example: rainfall
Rainfall gauge density
satellite rainfall product
0 32 72 108 144 180
Blended rainfall product
for 5 January 2005

32. Water Services
Example Reports
Total water storage
1 February 2010
Total soil and ground water storage
combined, compared to average for
this day for 1980-2009

33. Emergency management services
Toowoomba Flash Floods
CSIRO.

34. Emergency management services
Simulation of dam collapse in China.

35. Information Value Chain
Reporting and Visualisation Systems Standards & Access
End Focus on the provision of a system of web- Industry
based reporting tools to suit different end-users Focus on the
Users development and
promulgation of
interoperability
standards and inter-
Modelling and Forecasting Systems agency agreements
for sharing data
Service Focus on the implementation of accounting and
forecasting tools linked to interoperable data
Providers sources Ability to link data
and models and
report results via a
common web
Data Integration interface
Standard Focus on the interoperability of existing data
Setters sets pertinent to natural resources management Cross-jurisdictional
agreements on data
sharing, security
and access
protocols
Sensorisation Program
Focus on improving natural resource monitoring Standards for
Agencies provenance, Government
accountability and
auditability

36. 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)

37. Dr Alex Zelinsky
Group Executive,
Information Sciences
Phone: +61 2 9490 5620
Email: Alex.Zelinsky@csiro.au
Web: www.csiro.au
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