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FOR COMPANIES AND PUBLIC AUTHORITIES, NICTA delivers demonstrable performance improvement that translates directly to your bottom line. We have an enviable portfolio of case studies where NICTA’s capabilities in solving complex optimisation challenges, making sense of the data deluge, identifying new opportunities through breakthrough computer vision techniques, and more, have already been well demonstrated:

Intelligent Fleet Logistics - Changing the game in the transport and logistics industries by developing better planning and scheduling technologies to more efficiently use transport assets and resources.  New vehicle routing and logistics algorithms will reduce operational costs, reduce carbon footprint and help enable industry to meet the increasing freight demand with existing resources.  The flexible and user-friendly way the technology can be configured is key to meeting client problems, and is used to develop improved strategies for fleet and asset management.  

Automap - In the ever-growing GPS navigation market, consumers expect maps that are accurate and up-to-date. NICTA’s technology automatically analyses video to help update maps ensuring drivers can better rely on their GPS system to give them critical information from speed limits to traffic restrictions.

TruckOn - A proof-of-concept demonstrator showing wireless crash-avoidance technology to help prevent 'over-height' vehicles from colliding with tunnels and enclosed bridges.

Human Performance Modelling for Next Generation Traffic Management - Many ICT implementations in safety systems fail because the complex needs of users were not understood, or properly taken into account. To prevent such failures, we are developing techniques and tools for modelling users’ needs in the areas of healthcare and air traffic control, so they can be addressed early in development cycles.

Decision Support for Incident Management - Emergency responses, call centre processes and athletic performance can all be enhanced by a better understanding of the mental effort required for an individual to perform a given task. We are researching and developing core technologies for a new generation of human computer interfaces that will support critical decision-making for users in high-performance and time-critical environments.


FOR INDUSTRY SECTORS, with you, we solve challenges at a ‘systems’ level – bringing together multiple disciplines to break traditional thinking:

Fraunhofer Project Centre - A collaboration between NICTA and Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) on transport and logistics. We are combiming world-class research and technology development capabilities to make a real difference to the transport and logistics sector.

Future Logistics Living Lab - Australia's first Living Lab provides a platform for industry and research to work together, investigate real-world problems and demonstrate innovative technology that will provide transport and logistics solutions for the future.  The Logistics Living Lab is driven by a group of logistics companies, research organisations, universities, and IT providers, working together to deliver innovation shaping the future of the international logistics industry.  The Future Logistics Living Lab is a collaboration between NICTA, Fraunhofer Institute and SAP. 

G12/Opturion - Delivering efficient infrastructure investment and next generation optimisation technologies for large, complex industrial, infrastructure, and network problems.

Smart Transport and Roads (STaR) - Traffic congestion is one of the most pressing environmental and social issues for the world’s cities. NICTA is developing technology that allows control systems, traffic managers and road users to better predict and respond to traffic conditions, increasing the capacity of our roads infrastructure and making urban travel more predictable, efficient and environmentally friendly.

Smart Transport and Roads (STaR) Control - NICTA is developing new methods of traffic control to improve coordination between signals and to achieve greater efficiency at individual intersections and across a city’s overall road network.


FOR NATIONS, NICTA is tackling some of the greater challenges facing Australia, our region and the world. Globally prominent issues where Australian ICT capabilities contribute include energy utilisation, mobility of people and goods through all modes of travel, and effective use of natural resources:

FarmNet - Irrigation systems are critical for food production and supporting regional economies. The efficiency of these systems plays an important role in the sustainable use of fresh water. The FarmNet project uses innovations in remote sensing to improve the efficiency of irrigation networks, dam and river systems by enabling supply-on-demand in water supply chains.

SmartGrid - Australia has a unique advantage in the area of smart grids and more broadly cyber-physical networks - traffic, water, gas.  By using advanced ICT capabilities to manage power grids we can create the right future power grid for Australia. Creating a capability that will control and measure power all the way down to the house will allow customers to plan their usage accordingly giving energy suppliers the opportunity to deliver customer savings with an efficient sustainable service.  NICTA's involvement spans distributed control, networking, machine learning, optimisation, massive data and software, using our sophisticated research capabilities to deliver the future of energy.