CSIRO's stand at CeBIT Australia 2011.

CSIRO at CeBIT 2011

Discover what featured on our stand and about the industry forum, AusInnovate.

• 6 June 2011 | Updated 14 October 2011

• On this year's stand
• AusInnovate
• Images and downloads from the events
• CeBIT awards
• CeBIT 2012

CeBIT Australia is the leading information and communication technologies (ICT) event for the business market place.

CSIRO is a foundation member of CeBIT Australia's Future Parc and we have exhibited there since its inception in 2002.

On this year's stand

Our focus in 2011 was on technologies that either enable, or are enabled by, widespread broadband connectivity.

The centrepiece of our stand represented our Ngara wireless broadband technology that aims to bring broadband connectivity to people living beyond Australia's planned fibre network. Read more in Broadband to the bush.

CSIRO technologies that featured on the stand were:

• A hands-on collaborative environment allowing people in multiple locations to share, discuss and work together on documents, data and high resolution images in real-time. Read more in Working together.
  
• Robust, reliable 3D mapping and localisation technology that doesn't rely on GPS and which also comes in a hand held version. Read more technical detail in Mapping and localisation.
  
• Robust wireless sensor networks, automatic data quality control, easy to use visualisation technology and powerful forecasting tools. Read more in Wireless sensor networks: a new instrument for observing our world.
  
• Green supercomputing: CSIRO’s GPU-powered supercomputer is among the most powerful and energy efficient in the world. Read more in Speeding up science: CSIRO's CPU-GPU supercomputer cluster.
  
• A portable telehealth system that aims to reduce preventable blindness by sending patients’ eye images to city specialists. Read more in Bringing specialist eye care to rural and remote communities.

CSIRO is a founding partner in the Australian Centre for Broadband Innovation (ACBI), alongside the New South Wales Government and National ICT Australia (NICTA). ACBI, a national collaborative research initiative developing, demonstrating and evaluating broadband applications and services, featured prominently at this year's CeBIT. Read more in Australian Centre for Broadband Innovation.

Separate from the CSIRO stand was FutureCare. This exhibit showcased the latest in medical technology and telehealth solutions from industry and research organisations. Technologies developed by CSIRO joint venture the Australian e-Health Research Centre were part of the FutureCare display.

AusInnovate

AusInnovate:NBN Conference was a one-day forum that ran in parallel with CeBIT.

It is a partnership between CeBIT Australia and three major government research agencies:

• CSIRO
• National ICT Australia
• Defence Science and Technology Organisation.

The AusInnovate:NBN Conference this year took both a ‘big picture’ view of ways of maximising the benefits of Australia’s national broadband network (NBN) and a more detailed look at the practicalities of building such infrastructure.

CSIRO’s speakers were:

• Dr Alex Zelinsky, Group Executive, Information Sciences
• Dr Ian Oppermann, Director, ICT Centre
• Mr Colin Griffith, Director, ACBI.

Images and downloads from the events

See a gallery of images of the CSIRO and FutureCare stand at Photographs from CeBIT Australia 2011.

Presentations will be available for download from AusInnovate:NBN Conference [external link]. 

CeBIT awards

The CeBIT.AU Awards recognise outstanding achievement in the information and communications technology industry.

CSIRO has won the following CeBIT.AU Awards:

• Early Innovators, for our customer-facing system for smart electricity grids (2008). Find out more about Energy management by linked local controllers.
• Most Innovative Technology, for our prototype Ageless Aerospace Vehicle which demonstrated cooperative self-monitoring vehicle fabric (2004). Find out more about Intelligent sensor networks monitoring damage.

CeBIT 2012

CeBIT Australia will be on again from 22–24 May in Sydney, Australia.

Read more about CeBIT Australia [external link].