IntelliSensing

IFE Enabling Platform overview - IntelliSensing

IFE’s Enabling Platform, IntelliSensing, is about transforming data collection, modelling, analytics and decision-making to address real-world challenges in the built, natural and virtual environment. This is an enabling platform that can solve a wide range of problems for industry and society by introducing new technologies, techniques and systems.

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IFE Enabling Platform interview – Professor Tristen Perez

In this video Professor Tristen Perez discusses his role within IFE's Enabling platform IntelliSensing, which focuses on creating infrastructure to gain intelligence from sensing and sensing intelligently, and ultimately make societal gains from better decisions.

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5 minutes with Professor Tristan Perez

'My field is a mix of engineering and applied mathematics. What I like and what inspires me is that we use this knowledge to solve problems for the good of our society and the environment. I view the world in terms of systems and their mathematical models, which enables me to work and collaborate with industry and researchers in areas such as robotics, agriculture, econometrics, mining, biology, ecology, marine and aerospace vehicles, and health.'

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Agricultural robots: the future of farming technology

AgBot II is an agricultural robot prototype designed and fabricated by QUT researchers and engineers, with support from the Queensland Government. AgBot II can navigate through a field, apply fertiliser, detect and classify weeds, and kill weeds either mechanically or chemically. This technology promises to reduce the cost of weeding operations by approximately 90%, which could save the Australian agricultural sector $1.3 billion per annum.

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Saving the Great Barrier Reef from crown-of-thorns starfish

The Great Barrier Reef is under significant threat not only from climate change, pollution and illegal fishing, but also from the crown-of-thorns starfish, which is responsible for about 40% of the reef's total decline in coral cover. QUT roboticists Dr Matthew Dunbabin and Dr Feras Dayoub have created COTSbot, the world's first underwater robot designed to control crown-of-thorns starfish numbers.

• Using COTSbot to control crown-of-thorns starfish on the Great Barrier Reef

Visionary project to protect wild jaguars in Peru

Jaguars in the wild jungles of Peru are among the most elusive and threatened species on the planet. Professor Kerrie Mengersen is leading a visionary project to help ensure the big cat's survival through the use of statistics, mathematical modelling, virtual technology and knowledge from Indigenous people living in the Amazon.

• See how we're using virtual reality to protect jaguars and their habitats