dr neil temperley, nicta - the impact of higher connectivity on transport and logistics

NICTA Copyright 2011 From imagination to impact

Neil Temperley Future Logistics Living Lab Leader

National ICT Australia


What is NICTA?

• Australia’s National Centre of Excellence in

Information and Communication Technology

• A not-for-profit company with universities and state

governments as members, founded 2002

• Five Research Labs:

– ATP: Australian Technology Park, Sydney

– NRL: UNSW, Sydney

– CRL: ANU, Canberra

– VRL: Uni. Melbourne

– QRL: Uni. Queensland & QUT

• 700 staff including 270 PhD students

• Budget: ~$100M p.a. from Fed/State Gov and

industry

• ~600 research papers/year, ~150 patents total


What does NICTA do?

• NICTA objectives

– Research Excellence in ICT

– Wealth Creation for Australia

• Transforming Industry

– $3B direct impact on GDP from projects

– Working in digital economy, ITL, Health

• New Industries

– Eleven spin-outs, $80M of investment

– Working with SMEs & ICT ecosystem

• Skills and Capacity

– Over 330 high quality PhDs

– Working with 17 University partners


NICTA: Research and Outcomes

4

RESEARCH EXCELLENCE WEALTH CREATION


An NBN Story

• “In 2011 German experts said, “We need

an NBN like Australia!”

• Why? Not for:

– YouTube videos; or

– Music downloads.

• Rather…

– To manage all the Machine to Machine data.

• Smart Grid

• Intelligent Transport

5


Smart Grid: Future Home

• Energy source, consumes, temporary storage, e.g. in

electric car battery.

• Home is full of switchable smart devices

– Electric car charger, air conditioning, pool pump, clothes dryer.

6


Household (Guesstimates)

• Multiple devices at say 10 readings/s.

• 112 kb/s per house.

• 168 Gb/s for Sydney.

Not a huge number… but it will grow.

7


Computers in cars…

30-40% of car’s value by 2015

• Rear passenger flat panel

displays

• Command system with

PCMCIA slot

• GPS navigation

• DVD Player

• Led lamp cluster

• Head-up displays

• Dashboard instrument cluster

• Telematic system

• Climate control

• Electronic power roof system

• Radar sensor

• Transmission control

• Collision avoidance

• Adaptive cruise control

• HID headlamp

• Memory seat/mirror/steer

• Air-bag control and satellite

crash sensors

• Active steering

• Body control

• Suspension control

• Power windows

• Remote keyless entry

• Seat massage/HVAC

• Adaptive break lights

• Tire pressure monitoring

system (TPMS)

• Antilock braking

system/electronic stability

program

• mirrors

• Parking sensors

• Rear view camera

• Battery management

• Power seats

• Car radio

• Throttle control

• Engine control unit

• Folding door mirrors

• Electrochromic rear view

Image courtesy of Daimler Chrysler;

source: Gartner Research, Nov 05).


Vehicle Safety

• Internal

– Stronger chassis (ANCAP rating)

– Air bags

– Electronic Stability Control, ABS etc.

• External: Extra ‘Eyes’

– Radar

– Cameras: reversing,

lane keeping.

What next?... 10


Next Wave – Connected Mobility

• Car ↔ Car Communications

– Collision avoidance.

11


Wireless Vehicle Communications


Accident Prevention via Communications

SLOW DOWN Accident over hill

Slow traffic ahead.

Travel 40 kph.

STOP! Train approaching crossing!

STOP! Child crossing!


Car Safety Messages – Mostly Wireless

• About 8 kb/s per car

• Peak hour approx. 110,000 cars.

• = 880 Mb/s for Sydney.

Not a large amount and mostly wireless data

but…

Safety data is ultra-high priority!

14



15


Visibility of Transport and Logistics

16

Logistics = 14.5% GDP

>1 million Australian jobs



• Car ↔ Infrastructure Communications

– Traffic lights

– Parking stations.

– Ramp metering.

– Toll collection.

– GPS tracking data.

– Dynamic advisory speeds.

– Road conditions, e.g. icy, wet etc.

– Over-height collision prevention.

– Over-weight bridge protection.

– Compliance: driver fatigue.

– Car health and maintenance, e.g. engine health.

17


Machine Data Example

Engines

• One gas turbine with 3 sensors = 139 Mb/s

• 40,000 gas turbines worldwide

• = 60 x 1015 bytes per day

• = 24 times the daily traffic generated by the

global Internet in 2000.

GE Look ahead Posted Aug 30, 2013

18


Tracking Example – Wine Containers

Issues:

• Where are they?

• What temperature?

• Why the hold up?


Structural Health Monitoring

• Sydney Harbour

Bridge

• 2000 sensors

• 32 Mb/s

20


Neil Temperley Future Logistics Living Lab Leader

National ICT Australia