The NSW Government has launched a $2.4 million partnership with two Sydney universities to bring smart cities technology to regional councils. Wendy Tuckerman
The Smart Regional Spaces: Ready, Set, Go! is a partnership with the University of Sydney and UNSW Sydney under the Smart Places Strategy.
The project will run for 16-months and the team is seeking to partner with three regional NSW councils to pilot a process and range of tools to help them become ‘smart-ready’, which will then be made available to all regional councils in the state after the project.
Read more: AU: Opportunity for NSW regional councils to become ‘smart-ready’
The Tasmanian Liberal Government is transforming the way we deliver patient care with a $150 million investment over the next four years to upgrade our digital health infrastructure.
The 2022-23 State Budget commitment forms part of a Digital Health Strategy and it is anticipated more than $475 million will be allocated to this project over the next 10 years as the strategy is further scoped and developed.
This investment will see the launch of a new state-wide fully integrated care platform that will enable our hospitals, GPs, community health, allied health, and other specialist providers to seamlessly communicate and share information with each other.
Read more: AU: Tasmania: Major investment in digital health to improve patient care
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
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
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.