innovation, marketing and new technology foresight 2010
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Delivered in DCU on 22 November 2010TRANSCRIPT
Research for Ireland’s Future
Innovation, Marketing and New Technology Foresight
Dr. Stephen Flinter, Science Foundation Ireland
Science Foundation Ireland
About SFIFounded in 2000
Statutory body in 2003
Annual budget ~€155m
Three core areas: ICT Life Sciences Energy
SFI ProgrammesResearch Frontiers (>500 awards)
€50k-€150k (p.a.)
Principal Investigator (>100 awards) €150-€500k (p.a.)
Strategic Research Cluster (20 awards) €1m-€1.5m (p.a.)
Centres for Science Engineering and Technology (9awards) €2m-€3.5m (p.a.)
SFI ProcessOpen calls
Investigator-driven
Bottom-up selection
Expert, international peer review panels
A Brief History Lesson
Watt’s Steam Engine (1775)
Stephenson’s Rocket (1829)
Bell’s Telephone (1876)
Edison’s Light Bulb (1878)
Benz’s Internal Combustion Engine (1896)
Marconi’s Transatlantic Transmission (1901)
Powered Flight (1903)
Supersonic Flight (1947)
Space Flight (1957)
Commercial Supersonic (1969)
Platform Technologies
Platform TechnologiesProcessing
Storage
Display
Communications
Sensing
Moore’s LawThe number of transistors on an integrated
circuit doubles every 2 years
The processor speed doubles every 18 months
Moore’s Law
Multicore Processors
Intel Core i7 Processor
Storage
Reducing Cost of Storage
http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte
Samsung EcoGreen F2 HD103SI 1TB
€69
www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=479453
Samsung Spinpoint F4EG – 2TB
€89.95
http://www.komplett.ie/Komplett/product/ZKB_01COM/11_HDD/07_INTHD35/productdetails/20066405/Samsung_Spinpoint_F4EG_HD204UI_Hard_drive_2_TB/HD204UI/default.aspx
Flash Memory
iPod Introduced October
2001
5 & 10 GB capacities
iPod Touch Introduced
September 2007
8, 16, 32GB
The Innovator’s Dilemma
Clayton M. Christensen (2000)
Displays: from CRT to LCD
Touch Sensitive Displays
Electronic Paper
Sony Prototype Flexible EPDAmazon Kindle 3
Guesture-based Interaction
Communications7.2mbps wireless (HSDPA)
~7mbps (WiMAX)
20mbps wired broadband
100mbps WiFi (802.11n)
1000mbps LAN
PhotonicsUsed to support
backbone networks
40 gbps – 1.5 tbps
Cognative RadioUltra wide band
Multiple frequencies
Software defined radio
Positional Sensors
GPS Sensor In-car Sat Nav
Chemical/Environmental Sensors
Microfluidics array & phosphate sensor package – NCSR & Clarity CSET
Body Sensors
An Post cycle team at being fitted with Foster Miller sensor vest (Clarity Centre)
Applications
Internet & World Wide Web
Pre-92
1992
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1997
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1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
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2005
2006
2007
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2009
Web 2.0Web 1.0
Web 3.0 – Semantic WebAscribing meaning
to data
Linked Data Connecting
disparate data sources
DERI sig.ma semantic search engine
Internet of ThingsBillions or even
trillions of connected devices
Both wired & wireless
Sensor web & semantic web
Assisted LivingUsing sensor web to
monitor well being
Fall detection
Variations in daily routine
Medical DevicesAdvanced signal
processing
Real-time data analysis
Connected devices
Neonatal brain monitoring at UCC
Location AwarenessMobile devices
Multiple sensors
Layer additional information based on location
Layar augmented reality
Data AnalyticsMeasuring your
website
…personal finances
…business
…warehouse
…retail centre
…
Data Mining & Visualisation
Enormous growth in volume of data
Growing need to analyse and visualise data
Data visualisation – SFI Clique SRC
ConclusionsPlatform technologies continue to develop at
exponential pace
New applications emerging to exploit platform technologies
Innovation happening at the integration points
Analyzing the data becoming increasingly harder
Sensor-based technologies next big thing
