NICTA showcased some 30 research projects at the Australian Technology Park on Wednesday.
on Feb 24 2011 10:09AM
NICTA invited the public to its Techfest at the Australian Technology Park on Wednesday. According to NICTA's CEO, Hugh Durrant-Whyte, about 500 external people registered to attend the half-day event.
More than 30 research teams were represented at the event, demonstrating biomedical implants, eGovernment and software development tools, and GPS technology.
NICTA's 60GHz gigabit wireless (GiFi) chip promised to deliver tri-mode wireless connectivity at 10 times the speed of today’s 5GHz 802.11n technology.
NICTA's bionic eye combined wearable cameras and hardware that would be implanted into a user's eye. Researchers hoped to restore partial vision to the blind.
Representatives of the Australian Centre of Broadband Innovation demonstrated applications on various devices.
NICTA hoped to apply its facial recognition technology to building surveillance systems. Researchers did not expect to face legal difficulties to do with privacy, since the technology targeted private companies.
NICTA also unveilled its Future Logistics Living Lab in conjunction with the Fraunhofer Institute and SAP on 23 February.
The lab was intended to strengthen collaboration between researchers and the industry by demonstrating real-world situations. It currently demonstrated the supply of wine from Australia to a bar in Singapore.
Various technologies were demonstrated in the Living Lab, including logistics software used by partner Linfox. Other industry partners included Ericsson, Google, Hamburg Sud and XAct Solutions.
NICTA's Neil Temperley described how beam break technology tested by the RTA last year could work with embedded systems to automatically stop trucks from attempting to make impossible clearances.
NICTA also unveilled its Future Logistics Living Lab in conjunction with the Fraunhofer Institute and SAP on 23 February.