Efficient, Scalable, Discoverable

We work with research teams to provide professional software solutions to complex problems.

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Our Services

RDS comprises a diverse team of specialists with a wealth of experience across the digital spectrum. With expertise in many languages, we create software that's built to last.

Astronomical Pipelines

Instrument Control

Data Hosting & Storage

Web & Mobile App Development

Web Presence

Data Analytics

Software Development

UX/UI Design

Consultancy

Australian-based Infrastructure

Our specialty is providing complete software solutions to difficult problems. Our computing expertise is supported by professional project management and network engineering, along with dedicated on-site servers and hardware.

On-site hardware

We offer Australian-based hosting on high-performance hardware for all our services, ensuring fast response times for data access.

Dev-Ops

Our skills and experience cover the full spectrum from development to testing and deployment.

Network Engineering

Our experienced networking team work hard to prevent, detect and monitor intrusions and other threats.

Our Work

Our solutions facilitate science and research across multiple disciplines, from astronomical data pipelines to archaeological mobile apps.
Browse through some of the projects we've designed, developed, deployed and maintained over the years.

Data Central

FAIMS3

MAVIS

ESO

Australian Hearing Hub

SimSpin

Data Aggregation Service

DC-Teams

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Platforms & Tools

We're passionate about serving the research community. We've built platforms and services to facilitate, support and enhance scientific discovery.

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Data Central

Data Central brings together an array of heterogenous astronomical data in one accessible, feature-rich data portal, maximising the scientific return on Australian optical datasets of national significance.

AAT Archive

The AAT Archive is an ongoing service to provide online access to the data observed to-date on the Anglo-Australian Telescope.

DC Teams

Running an international research team is challenging. Keeping track of conversations, internal documents and emails can lead to mistakes and a slower output. DC-Teams is a single ecosystem of integrated online tools for keeping research teams of 1-100+ efficient and organised.

Hear from the community

In modern day astronomy the size and complexity of data have grown exponentially, as well as the need to fuse datasets of different types and origins: e.g., radio, optical, ground and space. Long gone are the days where astronomers could simply provide a downloadable ascii table. Contemporary astronomy now increasingly relies on the services of professionally designed data portals and interrogation tools, with strict quality controls, and which adhere to industry defined standards operating at scale and speed. Data Central is a world leader in providing this service to the national and increasingly international astronomy community. A unique feature is their deep understanding of the needs of the astronomers (their clients) and their speed and flexibility in building fully bespoke solutions on a shoestring budget. These days the most productive datasets aren’t necessarily those from the biggest telescopes, but rather those that best serve the data to their communities.

Data Central is an absolutely critical part of this process and instrumental in maximising the science return and impact from Australia’s Astronomy investment.

-- Professor S. Driver, UWA