Full Range Posted June 29, 2011 Posted June 29, 2011 The CSIRO has recently unveiled a breakthrough in wireless technology that will allow multiple users to upload content at the same time while maintaining a data transfer rate of 12 megabits per second (Mbps), all over their old analogue TV aerial. The technology, named Ngara, allows up to six users to occupy the equivalent spectrum space of one television channel (7 megahertz) and has a spectral efficiency of 20 bits per second per hertz. Ngara can handle up to three times that of similar technology and maintains a data rate more than 10 times the industry minimum standard, CSIRO ICT centre director Dr Ian Opperman Source http://www.zdnet.com.au/csiro-introduces-wi-fi-to-your-tv-antenna-339307025.htm More info http://www.itnews.com.au/News/251964,csiro-brings-ngara-to-nbn-co-regulators.aspx A video link http://video.theaustralian.com.au/2029028810/Rural-wireless-broadband-could-go-global FR
O.Sydney Posted June 29, 2011 Posted June 29, 2011 Good on our very own professional geeks to come up with this
Chewbacker Posted June 29, 2011 Posted June 29, 2011 Yes I heard about this too a while ago. I believe the govt is planning on using this technology to service the country areas for broadband by using the old analogue system
Full Range Posted June 30, 2011 Author Posted June 30, 2011 I also heard about Ngara a few months ago but had forgotten about it until I saw the latest video Australians don't give enough credit for home grown inventions I hope that this is another world beater & good on you CSIRO FR
sjay Posted September 2, 2011 Posted September 2, 2011 csiro owns a few of the patents that are used and are key in wifi today and did in fact win a land mark court ruling a year or three ago that forced every major OEM to cough up and pay them for using their IP in their wifi implementations .... IMHO the CSIRO rocks and should have their funding quadrupled... btw CSL is a CSIRO spin off
Jake Posted September 2, 2011 Posted September 2, 2011 Australians don't give enough credit for home grown inventions True. The Hills Hoist rocks.
Kevin Posted September 3, 2011 Posted September 3, 2011 True. The Hills Hoist rocks. Useful enough antenna in its own right - I wonder if CSIRO have contemplated running broadband through the clothes line. The research associated with wifi was completely unrelated in my recollection - something to do with correlating radio telescope signals? and the realisation that signals bounced around a room were somewhat similar. I can't recall specifics but it was a clear demonstration for funding quality research without necessarily having an immediate economic purpose. The square kilometre array decision is coming 29 February next year - hopefully to Australia rather than South Africa. Australia already has legislation in place to preserve radio quiet in the proposed area of WA. I was at a talk from Brian Gaensler the other night and he suggested that the really important results from such an instrument would be stuff that people hadn't even thought of yet. Managerialism has crushed institutions such as Bell Laboratories. The scientific literacy of our governments is appalling. Hopefully CSIRO will be able to use the commercial success of wifi to promote future funding of "blue sky" research. Kevin
Full Range Posted September 3, 2011 Author Posted September 3, 2011 Open minded people will see value in R&D Just remember what rewards in products we all use from research into space travel And that's probably only 25% the other 75% haven't been realized yet until that light bulb moment. FR
Gee Emm Posted September 3, 2011 Posted September 3, 2011 Current LABOUR Gov't policy is to reduce R&D tax grants. WtF is that about!? Obviously, part of their discussion re supporting the failing manufacturing sector (a demise initially overseen 20 years ago by another labour gov't). "daddy look down & spit on the ground every time their name is mentioned!" The brown smelly stuff is about to hit the twirly thing in the corner! Graham
brettk Posted September 3, 2011 Posted September 3, 2011 I also heard about Ngara a few months ago but had forgotten about it until I saw the latest video Australians don't give enough credit for home grown inventions I hope that this is another world beater & good on you CSIRO FR i watched a documentary recenlty on Dr Nakamats a famous japanese inventor who it turns out really hasn't invented as much as he claims. the documentary was very funny but after watching did a bit of googling an found an australian actually hold the record for the most patents, what the actually means i'm not sure but some of them certainly seem fairly significant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kia_Silverbrook
Full Range Posted September 3, 2011 Author Posted September 3, 2011 i watched a documentary recenlty on Dr Nakamats a famous japanese inventor who it turns out really hasn't invented as much as he claims. the documentary was very funny but after watching did a bit of googling an found an australian actually hold the record for the most patents, what the actually means i'm not sure but some of them certainly seem fairly significant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kia_Silverbrook Thats a man I can admire I have many inventions or concept ideas under my belt FR
Full Range Posted September 7, 2011 Author Posted September 7, 2011 Another CSIRO development I have been following Get ready for the photonics revolution - and invisibility cloaks - says Eureka Prize winner Ben Eggleton http://video.theaustralian.com.au/2120502800/Seeing-the-light FR
Full Range Posted February 20, 2012 Author Posted February 20, 2012 OK this is not not be a CSIRO invention but it is Australian @ UNSW How cool is an Atom Transistor Snip A team of Australian physicists has created the world's first functioning single-atom transistor, which could prove a critical building block toward the development of super-fast computers.The tiny electronic device, described today in a paper published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, uses as its active component an individual phosphorus atom patterned between atomic-scale electrodes and electrostatic control gates. While single-atom devices have been developed before, these had an error of about 10 nanometres in positioning of the atoms, which is large enough to affect functionality. Professor Michelle Simmons, group leader and director of the ARC Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), says it is the first time "anyone has shown control of a single atom in a substrate with this level of precise accuracy". Video Rest of the story is here http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-20/team-designs-world27s-smallest-transistor/3839524 FR
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