Wireless and Networking Technologies Laboratory
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filed under:
Wireless Technologies Laboratory,
Wireless Technologies
Our goal is to develop future wireless systems that address national challenges and support industry. We are leading in the areas of broadband communications, position location and remote sensing.
We are entering the era of ubiquitous and pervasive communications networks – and this means increased demand for reliable, wide bandwidth wireless connections.
Current wireless networks have problems such as:
- unreliability
- incompatibility
- low data rates.
CSIRO's wireless technologies researchers (some 70 scientists and engineers) are working on innovative solutions to these problems.
Our research focuses on:
- antennas and propagation
- microwave and millimetre wave technologies
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signal processing and communications.
Our Research
Our research is applied in areas such as:
Track record
Our major achievements include:
- world's first six Gigabits per second wireless link, for which we won the 2007 CSIRO Chairman’s medal and the Australian Engineering Excellence Award
- the most spectrally efficient and multi-user multiple input, multiple output system in the world, 2006
- smart feed for Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder telescope, 2008
- two-way surface-to-underground mine safety communications, 2006, and technology transfer to MineSite Technologies
- invention and of non-contact radio frequency vital signs sensors licensed to HD Medical, 2005-2007
- high precision ad hoc positioning and tracking system for the Australian Institute of Sport, 2009.
