Businesses in the startup and emerging tech sectors are being invited by the New South Wales government to join its $3 million Smart City Innovation Challenges.
The first of three Innovation Challenges will be launched in April, with each challenge to award $1 million to a winner who will then partner with the state government.
Read more: AU: New South Wales to launch $3 million smart city innovation challenges
One of the busiest roads in Melbourne, Australia, will host a brand-new traffic-management system using the latest technology to reduce traffic jams and improve road safety.
The ‘Intelligent Corridor’ at Nicholson Street, Carlton, will be launched by the University of Melbourne, Austrian technology firm Kapsch TrafficCom and the Victorian Department of Transport.
Read more: AU: Victoria: Smart traffic-management system launches in Melbourne
The City of Greater Geelong is a step closer to achieving its Smart City goals, following the endorsement of a 15-year agreement to access 24 kilometres of optical fibre from Corio to East Geelong.
The city has entered into a contract with not-for-profit organisation, AARNet, to install and utilise a high-speed optical fibre network which will form the backbone of the Smart City initiative, and provide community facilities and public spaces with access to ultra-high-speed internet.
Read more: AU: Victoria: Greater Geelong: Big step for Smart City plan
The City of Bunbury is the latest Australian city to adopt our SmartPark parking management system, with over 2,000 vehicle detection sensors, a custom branded customer-facing wayfinding & payment app, parking meters and Tessera - our compliance management platform and app, all linked up through our SmartCloud data management platform.
The installation – due in the first quarter of 2022 – will supersede their legacy system, which was an outdated mixture of over a hundred parking machines and manual inspection of vehicles by Parking Officers across ticketed parking areas.
Smart city boost as 3D spatial cameras scan streetscape.
They may not seem like the most intuitive targets for smart-city technology, but the garbage trucks of Melbourne’s City of Brimbank are getting a high-tech upgrade as Swinburne University researchers test a 5G-connected computer-vision system that will monitor city streets to identify potential damage and maintenance issues.
Read more: AU: Victoria: Melbourne testing 5G garbage trucks