The CSIRO ICT Centre is expected to use Future Parc to highlight its ongoing work in one of the hottest topics in Australian politics – the way it monitors Australia’s scarce water resources.
The organisation has made impressive progress in developing wireless sensor networks for use in collecting geospatial data.
CSIRO ICT will showcase the sensors used in its $9 million-a-year Water Resources Observation Network (WRON), which is being developed to help better management Australia’s water and to protect river systems.
“Spatial data and sensor technology have a wide range of applications, particularly in the environmental field,” CSIRO researcher Gavin Walker.
“This technology will improve our scientific understanding of Australia’s scarce water resources and will revolutionise the way scientists gather data.”
The organisation has developed the technology in close collaboration with the Open Geospatial Consortium, developing a set of improved OGC specifications to provide access to multiple sources of geospatial information to assist in decision making.
With a keen eye on commercialisation opportunities in recent years, the CSIRO has point to the water monitoring application as a technology with broad potential across the globe.
More generally though, CSIRO ICT the geospatial technology that backs WRON can be applied to a vast range of different applications.
Both CSIRO and National ICT Australia (NICTA) – the country’s other flagship tech researcher – are both expected to use future parc to introduce specific commercial initiatives.
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