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A team of scientists from Australia, Brazil and Spain have joined forces to develop the most sophisticated remote monitoring system ever used to track the diminishing biodiversity of South America’s Amazon Jungle. The project is revolutionising the way biodiversity is monitored by creating a distributed, wireless sensor network throughout the jungle with autonomous nodes that continuously […]

There has been increasing interest in adopting BlockChain (BC), that underpins the crypto-currency Bitcoin, in Internet of Things (IoT) for security and privacy. However, BCs are computationally expensive and involve high bandwidth overhead and delays, which are not suitable for most IoT devices. This project, which is a collaboration between Data61 and UNSW, is designing […]

Our sustainable and versatile tracking system Camazotz is being used to monitor flying foxes across Australia, helping ecologists understand and predict the spread of disease. |The challenge Improving tracking technology Flying foxes are a major player in the biodiversity stakes. Their ecological role serves to pollinate and disperse seeds of trees including our iconic Eucalyptus. […]

Sense-T is creating the world’s first economy-wide intelligent sensor network that integrates different data sources to build a digital view of Tasmania. |The challenge To create social, economic and environmental benefits from Tasmania’s sensor networks Tasmania’s existing sensor networks are owned by a range of government departments, energy and water utilities and businesses, and they […]

Increasing opportunities have been provided to collect massive social signals from varieties of human activity records than ever before, such as micro-blogging, information sharing, and geo-tagged activity logs in online social media platforms, with the help of technological advances in social sensing. This project focuses on using these signals and their associated geotags to infer […]

We developed Bleat as a capability in low power sensing combined with low power bluetooth indoor localisation. This capability is applicable to our small wireless sensing devices as well as smart phones. Once we had the indoor localisation capability ported to smart phones, we set about designing a CSIRO Site App, that uses Bleat, for […]

Increasing human population, economical development, and industrialization of our society lead to disturbance of natural ecosystems. To prevent long-term damage of the environment, the affected ecosystems need to be rehabilitated to a sustainable form after industrial operations cease. Environment rehabilitation is a long-term process that is complex and costly as it includes restoration of soil, […]

bIoTope (Building an IoT OPen innovation Ecosystem for connected smart objects) is a RIA (Research and Innovation action) project funded by the Horizon 2020 programme, Call ICT30: Internet of Things and Platforms for Connected Smart Objects. bIoTope lays the foundation for open innovation ecosystems, where companies can – with minimal investment – innovate by creating new Systems-of-Systems (SoS) […]

Employees of large organizations like CSIRO could be forgiven for thinking that anything they might do in their office to save energy won’t make much difference – after all, they don’t see the company’s electricity bill, let alone how they’re contributing to it. We developed a system that reduces energy usage of HVAC, lighting, and […]

In recent times the use of biological and ecological indicators has become a standard water quality assessment tool, and opportunely, frogs have been used widely as bioindicators/indicators of ecosystem health. As such, CSIRO partnered with Seqwater to develop a biological monitoring project in the Somerset catchment with three important and overlapping aims: establish a water quality […]