The CSIRO has opened its first operational Urban Living Lab at the Sydney Science Park in western Sydney in partnership with the park’s developer, Celestino, enabling research in smart city technologies to be undertaken in a real urban environment. CSIRO said it would be “a place where researchers, industry, government and communities can get together […]
FTTH Council Asia-Pacific to focus on smart cities
The FTTH Council Asia-Pacific has flagged smart cities along with the building of digital economies as new areas of focus and has set up a smart cities committee headed by Stephen G Foster, Managing Director of Asia Pacific with UK based Emtelle, a manufacturer of blown fibre and ducted network system. William Hamilton CEO of […]
Calibre
The Technology division of Calibre is in prime position to support the plan of transforming our national cities to support the smart cities initiative and our Technology division is leading the way in innovation development. Our aim is to provide solutions and support to metropolitan and regional areas throughout Australia through defining clear opportunity within this area of […]
The experts agree: China’s M2M market set for explosive growth
The GSMA and EY (Ernst & Young) have both released reports into the Chinese M2M market predicting enormous growth, fuelled by very active Government support. The GSMA report, Mobile Operators and Digital Transformation, produced in conjunction with The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), said the market would reach one billion connections by […]
Wi-SUN Alliance releases new spec for smart city mesh networking
The Wi-SUN Alliance, a global body dedicated to promoting products and services for smart utility networks based on the IEEE 802.15.4g standard, has released a specification for field area networks (FAN) to support open standards based networking for smart city applications. Wi-SUN’s director of standards, Bob Heile, said: “As the industry need for smart city […]
Cisco launches Sydney IoT innovation centre
Cisco has formally launched the second of its two Australian IoT Innovation Centres, both of which were announced at Cisco Live! In Melbourne in March 2015. However it is a very different beast from what was foreshadowed in that announcement, with a much greater range of partners likely to make it much more effective. Cisco […]
Wanted: a smart minister for smart cities
The conduct of Australia’s erstwhile, and first ever, minister for cities, Jamie Briggs has been anything but smart. Of more concern to the Australian public than the unsmartness of his personal conduct should be his lack of any focus on the smartness of Australia’s cities. When prime minister Malcolm Turnbull announced Briggs’ appointment in September, […]
Singapore joins ITU smart city trial
Singapore has joined the ITU’s two-year pilot project to evaluate the feasibility of the ITU’s key performance indicators for smart sustainable cities. The ITU aims to develop an internationally standardised set of of the indicators that can be used as the basis of a Global Smart Sustainable Cities Index. The pilot project will test and […]
Is Reps’ inquiry into smart infrastructure or smart ways to build infrastructure?
Question: what does ‘Smart ICT’ mean to you? I really don’t know, and a Google search did not throw up any clear and consistent definition. This is a bit of a worry because the Australian Government has launched an entire inquiry into “The role of Smart ICT in the design and planning of Infrastructure” without […]
Australia lagging on smart homes and smart cities
Australia is lagging behind many nations in the application of IoT to both smart homes and smart cities, and leadership needs to come from the Government, says Frost & Sullivan. The research company is preparing to publish, later this year, separate reports on smart cities and smart homes and according to Audrey William, head of […]
