This once-only IoT focussed webinar will deliver free training for town planners, construction managers, IT managers and asset managers to help them harness the power of IoT technology for city design in a post-Cod-19 world, develop new city revenue streams, streamline operations and significantly improve the quality and amenity of the built environment. Alicia Asín […]
OneWiFi and CommScope team to make Footscray smart
Sydney based OneWiFi Australia, which claims to be Australia’s largest independent Wi-Fi managed service provider, has teamed up with global technology company CommScope to expand Footscray’s public Wi-Fi network to support smart city applications. The Footscray Smart City for Social Cohesion Project is a joint initiative between Maribyrnong City Council and Melbourne’s Victoria University. It […]
Three Aussies cities, two in NZ vie for intelligent community gong
Three Australian cities and two in New Zealand have made the short list produced by the New York based Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) for recognition as being the world’s smartest community. The think tank has named Adelaide, Prospect (SA), the Sunshine Coast, Wellington and Whanganui in a list of 21 cities to begin its annual […]
Gold Coast turns on Australia’s largest LoRaWAN net
The City of Gold Coast has turned on what, according to supplier National Narrowband Network Company (NNNCo), is Australia’s largest and most diverse LoRaWAN network. NNNCo says it has the capacity to support more than 600,000 sensors and real-time management tools. NNNCo announced in August 2018 that it had been awarded the contract to build the […]
Newcastle to deploy NNNCo’s IoT platform
The City of Newcastle has selected NNNCo’s N2N-DL IoT platform as the middleware for its intelligent platform implementation to support multiple smart city applications. The deal also includes an agreement to run thousands of IoT devices through the platform for multiple city use cases, and to use of NNNCo’s N-tick device certification program for all […]
Canberra to get smart with help from Itron
Transport Canberra and City Services (TCCS) is working with US based Itron and Vinci Energies’ Australian subsidiary, construction engineering company Electrix, to build an IoT network that will support smart lighting and smart city and energy applications. TCCS will deploy Itron’s network across Canberra to connect streetlights and will manage these with Itron’s Streetlight.Vision […]
SynchroniCity shares smart city data, smartly
Want to know how noisy it is in Helsinki, the air quality in Santander (Spain), or how many people are walking down Portland Street in Manchester? Perhaps not, unless you live in, or have a particular interest in, one of those cities, but the fact that such data is on offer and readily available shows […]
Smart cities: what can possibly go wrong?
If the smart cities movement loses sight of its goal, it will fail. It will become another of those period-dated, quaint, seemed-a-good-idea-at-the-time, don’t-know-really-why I was-into-that, phases. Like bell-bottom trousers. (For younger readers: 50 years ago, young men decided it would be cool to dress like sailors from the waist down. You will notice: this particular […]
Smart Cities Council names Leadership City contenders
The ANZ arm of the global Smart Cities Council has shortlisted Brisbane, Adelaide, Ipswich, Sunshine Coast and Canterbury-Bankstown for its Leadership City award, the top prize in the inaugural Australian Smart Cities Awards, to be presented in partnership with Telstra and Deloitte. Ten awards will be presented as part of Australia’s first Smart Cities Week […]
The Orwellian Smart City
By Steve Mackay Have you ever wondered – what if this wonderful shiny new smart city of the future that we’re trying to build turned out to be an Orwellian* nightmare? I was at a smart city presentation in a prestigious University in South East Asia recently. After the learned presentations there was a quiz. […]
