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As ACCANZ continues its collaboration with the Internet of Things Alliance Australia, we learn more every day on the variety of applications emerging across local government, and university campuses, to name a few. Senors and actuators are being...
Article - 04/25/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security, Transportation, Water and wastewater, Connectivity
Melbourne’s liveability has always been its strong suit, taking out yet again the top spot in the Economist Intelligence Unit rankings. But one emerging contributor – its smart cities focus – could also be playing an important part in the daily...
Article - 04/25/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Policy and leadership
The smart cities world is often steeped in tech 'nerdery' — and I love it. Our members — from large global technology companies like Hitachi and Cisco, to engineering greats like Aurecon, and strategic advisory firms like EY and KPMG — are...
Article - 04/25/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
When the topic is vulnerable children – children who through no fault of their own have been abused, abandoned, neglected, bullied or otherwise wronged – it can be tough to find an upside. But we know there are incredible, compassionate human beings...
Article - 04/19/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness
Adam has spent more than 20 years influencing infrastructure and urban regeneration projects across the world. In this time, he has worked for global consulting firms, as well as transformational non-profit organisations. For the past seven years,...
Article - 04/19/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, ASEAN
In this week's Quick takes installment, we highlight initiatives designed to make a positive difference in the lives of older populations. Some are pretty simple, but as you'll read below, they do matter. – Liz EnbyskIn Winter Park, a daily call...
Article - 04/18/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Australia - New Zealand, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness
Last week I shared extracts of my interview with Chris Isles from Place Design Group, one of SCCANZ’s member organisations working on IDEA City at Springfield – a new city being built from scratch, within the City of Ipswich in Southeast Queensland....
Article - 04/18/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Policy and leadership, Policy frameworks and tools
This news out of the University of New South Wales and Indian government is an exciting development that appears to be another step in advancing Australia's preparedness for autonomous and connected vehicles, among other automotive advancements....
Article - 04/18/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand, Readiness Guide Online
Major cities within the Australia and New Zeland region are undergoing massive change, through extraordinary growth. Sydney and Auckland come to mind immediately, having spent much time there recently. The infrastructure spend in both of these...
Article - 04/15/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Transportation, Policy and leadership
As I sat in on the briefing by UrbanGrowthNSW last week regarding their draft sustainability strategy, it was clear they were on a journey. Not everything was complete, there were gaps and urban challenges they are seeking to address. But in the...
Article - 04/11/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Policy and leadership
The smart cities collaboration across major cities in New Zealand has become a thing of envy, to others across the Tasman. When I visited the NEC smart cities studio on Wellington last year, I was first introduced to the work being pioneered across...
Article - 04/11/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Public safety and security, Instrumentation and control
As we reported a few weeks ago from our Smart Cities Forum with Consult Australia, the smart cities standards dialogue in Australia is heating up. And rightly so. The pioneering work of the Internet of Things Alliance Australia has been...
Article - 04/11/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Interoperability, Policy and leadership
Repeat after me, “a smart city is about people, productivity, efficiency, jobs, and liveability.” Globally, this is now an agreed concept, and from a definitional stand point, to be clear, technology is the enabler. And I’ll let you in on a secret...
Article - 04/10/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Worldwide, cities grow by five million people every month. Swelling urban populations put strain on aging infrastructure and delivery of basic human services. City leaders need help. We are a member-driven network of the world’s leading...
Article - 04/07/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
When your team can spend more time adding value to your organisation, as opposed to spending time ‘managing’ infrastructure, you have a real opportunity to see not only big savings, but also support a culture of innovation.This story of the City of...
Article - 04/04/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Computing resources
Last Monday I was in Cairns, leading a Smart Cities Readiness Masterclass with the Council’s executive leadership team. As we were neck deep in navigating the 17 universal principles of smart cities, buses full of evacuees from Bowen and Ayer were...
Article - 04/04/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Built environment, Public safety and security
As we say at the Council – “data is good, intelligence is great”. In this article Professor Chris Pettit of University of NSW puts his finger on the issue many of us are thinking: do we really know how our cities are performing?Having a situational...
Article - 04/04/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Category: Analytics, Data management
There is a smart street lighting initiative in Europe called the 'Humble Lamppost'. It has a simple, yet big, hairy, and audacious goal of deploying 10 million smart lampposts cross EU cities. Yep, that's right, 10 million smart lampposts.Now to be...
Article - 04/02/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand
Smart Cities In-Review is a process of peer and expert review for smart cities projects, facilitated by SCCANZ, with participation from its members and other industry stakeholders. It is a cost-effective and efficient way to improve project outcomes...
Resources - 04/10/2017
Active Region(s): Australia - New Zealand, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Information Center