Tag: smart cities
Smart street furniture in Australia: a public service or surveillance and advertising tool?
A smart light pole in the UK can also recognise faces and numberplates and detect speeding. Nazlika/Wikimedia Common
Smart street furniture – powered and digitally...
Smart city or not? Now you can see how yours compares
Smart is as smart does. f11photo/Shutterstock
The highest-ranked areas in an Australia-wide assessment of smart city performance are all in metropolitan regions with higher population...
As cities grow, the Internet of Things can help us get on top of the waste crisis
Melbourne is one Australian city that’s moving to improve its
waste management and reduce its reliance on trucks to collect
waste. TK Kurikawa/Shutterstock
Total global...
Is China’s social credit system coming to Australia?
The Northern Territory government is expanding the CCTV
surveillance network. Dan Himbrechts/AAP
Privacy was not a hot topic in the recent Australian election, but it...
Technology is making cities ‘smart’, but it’s also costing the environment
A smart city is usually one connected and managed through
computing — sensors, data analytics and other information and
communications technology. from shutterstock.com
The Australian...
Look up #happycity and here’s what you’ll find
The same things tend to make people happy-such as
nature and colour. (Jardin des Curiosités, Lyon, France)
Léonard Cotte/Unsplash
City planners and designers want to...