Location & Tracking Technologies

We are developing technologies in information and communication – to maximise the outcomes for industry and society.

CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems (CSE) conducts research and development across a range of landscapes, targeting social, economic and environmental sustainability.

The Australian e-Health Research Centre has shown that it is possible to accurately predict how many patients will present at hospital emergency departments, their expected medical needs and the number of hospital admissions.

CSIRO scientists with the Minerals Down Under National Research Flagship are working closely with industry and government to develop vastly improved navigation technology for remote areas.

Farming 2020, formerly Smartlands, aims to create a wireless network of low-power, durable sensors for monitoring land quality, and tracking livestock.

Information obtained during clinical treatment can be valuable for clinical and medical research, but accessing and querying it is complicated by the different ways it is collected and stored. CSIRO is creating software tools to solve these problems.

CSIRO’s Machine Vision team is expanding the capabilities of visioning hardware-software, building machines able to automatically process images in real-world conditions.

Wearable intelligent textiles, incorporating electronic circuitry and sensors, are well suited to become the basis of the next generation of control systems for many applications of mobile computing, allowing complete freedom of movement.

The Water Research Observation Network (WRON) Visualisation Centre provides an environment for the investigation and development of visualisation tools and interfaces that display information in an engaging and easily understood manner as shown in this video. (2:27)

This video interviews Dr Richard Helmer about CSIRO's wearable instrument shirt guitar, which works by recognising and interpreting arm movements and relaying this wirelessly to a computer for audio generation, and then shows him demonstrating the shirt with a backing track. (1:00)

Dr Peter Corke is CSIRO’s expert on robots and intelligent systems, helping to design devices and systems that perform tasks humans do not want to do, or are unable to do.

The CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems laboratory in Alice Springs conducts research that addresses regional futures, indigenous livelihoods, conservation planning and management, sustainable agricultural systems and knowledge management in arid and semi-arid rangelands.

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The ICT Centre has a range of information and communication technologies available for commercialisation.

Increasing market preference for grains free of chemical residues is driving research into potential alternative methods of insect control.

The Tasmanian ICT Centre (TasICTC) is creating a world-class ICT sustainable research capability to support the growth and development of industries in Tasmania and delivering national impact.