The Needs, The Present, The

Future

Dr. Lucio Rispo

Strategic Research Director
Qatar Science & Technology Park
This document is owned and copyrighted by QSTP ,is solely for the use of QSTP and
QF. No part of it may be circulated, quoted, or reproduced for distribution outside QF,
without prior written approval from QSTP.
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record of the discussion.

QSTP: Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, a

private not-for-profit organization re-established by a Decision of His Highness Sheikh
Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani dated 22 January 2007 in conformity with Law No. 21 of
2006 Concerning Private Institutions of Public Utility (Qatar), acting with respect to
Qatar Science & Technology Park
A World of Data and
Communication
 The Real Face of the
•
Data
Wal-Mart handles more
than 1million customer
transaction every hour, 2.5
petabytes the equivalent of
167 times the books in
America’s Library of
Congress

• Facebook website is home

to 40 billions photos

• Decoding the human

genome involves analyzing
3 billions base pairs which
took ten years the first time
it was done, in 2003, but
can now be achieved in
one week.
 A Different Game
• Open Source Software and
Cloud Computing in which
the internet is used as a
platform to collect, store
and process data allows
businesses to lease
computing power as and
when they need it

• More corporate functions,

such as Human Resources
or Sales, Public Services
like Health Care, are
managed over a network
 Overload
• Quantifying the amount of
information that exists in the
world is hard

• The growth is estimated at a

terrific rate CAGR 60%

• Experiments at CERN
generate 40 terabytes every
seconds

• This year 1.200 exabytes of

digital data will be generated
(Source: IDC)

• In 2008 households in USA

were bombarded with 3.6
zetabytes of information or 34
gigabytes per person per day
•
March of the Machine
In terms of bytes, written words
are insignificant, less than 0.1% of
the total
• The amount of reading people,
previously in decline, because of
television, has almost tripled since
1980 because of text on internet
• Information created by machines
and used by other machines will
probably grow faster than
anything else, database to
database
• Only 5% of the information that is
created is structured, words or
numbers
• Application like voice-recognition
and facial-recognition can identify
people and words in digital files
 How to make sense
of all these data
• Sensors, computers, mobile
phones already exceeds the
available storage space

• Proliferation of data is making

them increasingly
inaccessible
 The Need

• A network able to
deal with the
monster

• Solutions able to
create the monster
 The Monster

• Predictive Analysis
 A Different Game
• The use of predictive
analytics on the basis of
large data sets is
transforming the health care.
We can spot potentially fatal
infections in premature
babies.

• The system monitors subtle

changes in seven streams of
real-time data, such as
respiration, heart rate and
blood pressure.

• The electrocardiogram
alone generates 1,000
readings per second
QSTP’s Disruptive Technology
(The Art of Visible)

• Rasad

• IQRA

• Wimatek (LTE)
It is all about communication between
people….
The rest is technology

‫ اما‬..... ‫انه التواصل بني الناس‬

‫البقيه فهي جمرد تكنلوجيا‬
Rasad

RASAD / ‫رَصَد‬
RASAD, which can be more easily pronounced, is the past
form of RASD. However, RASAD (monitored) translates into
both past and present tense in English which ultimately fits
into the description of the platform where the information is
continuously being collected and processed

© QSTP 2010, Confidential information

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HOW DOES THE PLATFORM WORK ?

Medical
Devices Central Processes and
Sensors Application aggregates data
Server

Multimedia /
multichannel
layer
WiFi
Bluetooth

Gateway Node
Environment GPRS

Wireless
Networks
Sensors 3G - 4G
Mobile
LTE Internet
Zigbee
etc

Customized info available

to:
Body Medical staff
Sensors Patients
Coaches and Athletes
Individuals
Etc.

© QSTP & ASPETAR 2010

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IQRA
IQRA: Platform Architecture

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 How To Make it
Happen
• LTE

• Femtocell
 Wireless Technology Development at QSTP
- 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) & 4G

• WiMatek Systems QSTP

develops state-of-art systems for
the global LTE market
•

• Partner with QUWIC to develop

Mobile Internet Access Devices

(USB modems) & Micro/Femto
Base-stations
WiMatek Systems MIMO - LTE Platform

Mobile User Devices Femto Base-Stations

 Addressable Market:
LTE Devices Growth
20

• Near exponential growth over

next 10 years
1 Billion
devices

• Strong opportunity to capture a fair

% of the LTE licensing market

© Alnuweiri 2010, Confidential

The Needs, The Present, The
Future

Dr. Lucio Rispo

Strategic Research Director
Qatar Science & Technology Park
This document is owned and copyrighted by QSTP ,is solely for the use of QSTP and
QF. No part of it may be circulated, quoted, or reproduced for distribution outside QF,
without prior written approval from QSTP.
This material was used by QSTP during an oral presentation; it is not a complete
record of the discussion.

QSTP: Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, a

private not-for-profit organization re-established by a Decision of His Highness Sheikh
Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani dated 22 January 2007 in conformity with Law No. 21 of
2006 Concerning Private Institutions of Public Utility (Qatar), acting with respect to
Qatar Science & Technology Park