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SMART CITIES EXPLORER
Smart City Place Based Typologies For Your Exploration
(Incorporating the Code for Smart Communities)
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The world is evolving to become more digital, mobile and connected. 'Smart Cities' are using technology and innovative solutions to make our cities more liveable, sustainable, efficient, resilient and enjoyable for all.
The Code for Smart Communities, prepared by Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand will help guide urban development practices to embrace technology, data and intelligent design as a catalyst for positive change.
As the technical advisers to the Code for Smart Communities, Place Design Group holistically understands how technology will interact with mobility, environment, infrastructure, governance and other city systems to drive change in our homes, businesses, streets and green spaces. As creators of 'places' for people, we've developed a series of 'Worlds' for you to explore and understand how Smart Solutions may be deployed. Each has been created from a 'place-based' perspective incorporating the Code for Smart Communities. With 3 worlds for you to explore and learn from, we hope you enjoy.
Happy exploring!
Place Design Group is a leading planning and design company, working at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds. Place Design Group offers the following Smart City services:
>> Smart City Workshops
>> Smart City Strategies and Frameworks
>> Detailed Smart City Solution Selection, Design & Delivery
>> Data Analysis and Reporting
>> Community Engagement & Smart City Story Telling
Contact us at Place Design Group
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Campus
Campus development includes multiple buildings often serving a common purpose, such as schools, universities and hospitals. These development types can be located in greenfield, brownfield and 'greyfield' settings. Campus’ often have a single organising and operating entity with mostly private assets and infrastructure. This provides additional incentives to implement smart city solutions that bring about efficiency gains, but also removes many of the regulatory hurdles that are currently associated with smart solutions in public roads and space.
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Connectivity will be key to the success of 'smart cities'. The benefits of 'smart cities' can only be achieved if there is continuous connectivity that allows devices to communicate between each other, and city managers having visibility over systems' performance in an uninterrupted way.
Public WiFi networks will play an important role in connectivity for years to come.
Wi-Fi Hotspots
Physical activity is essential to the physical and mental health of young people. Children become less active as they get older. Reversing this trend of inactivity requires many solutions, as well as environments and programs to reach more kids.
Spending time with peers socialising is one of the main innovators for physical activity for tweens and teens. These influences have become the inspiration for a new generation of electronic playground equipment.
Digital Playgrounds
Digital Kiosks
As cities tackle congestion by promoting alternate forms of transport to private vehicles, personal transportation (i.e. walking, running, cycling, scooting) are becoming an increasingly important sustainable transport mode share.
Smart, integrated systems will support the movement to shift personal transportation from an individual, disconnected activity to a connected form of transport.
Energy Efficient Lighting
Bicycle/Pedestrian Counters
Time is precious in today's fast moving cities. The time wasted by waiting for on-time and delayed public transport can be avoided by using new technologies.
Smart public transport infrastructure is one of the most widely adopted 'smart city' solutions.
Street lighting is the largest source of carbon emissions from local government in Australia, representing between 30 and 60 per cent of their total emissions.
With civic authorities across the world seeking to reduce their emissions and costs, LED street lighting schemes are being implemented in many cities and are now a requirement for new developments.
Digital kiosks are the 21st century iteration of the phone booth, but with more capabilities, providing an all-in-one solution housing several smart city solutions.
Digital kiosks will create a more integrated digital experience for the community.
Smart Public Transport
Street lighting becomes 'intelligent' when it moves beyond a standard on/off operation to a dynamic system which adapts to movement, and provides opportunities for data collection and two-way communication with local authorities.
Intelligent Lighting incorporates extra sensors and technology to help assist with efficient energy usage and data collection.
Heavy traffic in our cities is associated with air pollution, safety risks, and losses in terms of accessibility, economic competitiveness, sustainable growth and social cohesion.
There are a number of measures available to address this problem; either by restricting conventional car use, or providing viable alternatives. Bicycles and scooters provide an environmentally friendly transport option for making short trips within a city.
Personal Transport Share Systems
Solution
Data driven infrastructure is the installation of high speed and quality internet and electrical capabilities such as underground cable networks.
Around one third of inner-city traffic is caused by drivers searching for parking spaces.
Smart Parking refers to the use of sensors to provide data about carpark availability to help people find parks sooner, and to help authorities maintain a more efficient and effective enforcement system.
Outcome
As data driven infrastructure will be a necessary underlying aspect of smart life, the connection of intelligent infrastructure as well as the installation of hyper-fast internet cabling will help pave the way towards the Smart Cities of the future.
Metrics
Strategic - Enhanced Smart Community Structure Plan
Connected - Number of premises (dwellings and places and space) with access to best-in class broadband infrastructure.
- Percent of outdoor coverage across the community of a publicly accessible LPWAN network(s).
- Percent coverage across the community of 4G/5G mobile infrastructure.
- Use of open integration architecture.
- Mandating of interoperability standards.
- Adoption of common data models.
Innovative - Number of innovation assets.
Smart Parking
Connectivity will be key to the success of 'smart cities'.
The benefits of 'smart cities' can only be achieved if there is continuous connectivity that allows devices to communicate between each other, and city managers having visibility over systems' performance in an uninterrupted way.
Smart Data Connectivity
Population-dense cities consume two-thirds of the world's energy and produce a similar proportion of global carbon emissions. This places cities at the centre of the climate change discussion, particularly on how can our electrical infrastructure be developed to support city development and quality of life while significantly reducing our cities' impact on the environment. The 'smart city' can leverage technology, data and digital connectivity to improve its core functions and sustainably manage energy.
Renewable Power
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the connection of a network of physical or digital devices to the internet, exchanging data, through embedded sensors and electronics. Smart street furniture sees this integration of technology into elements of public realm fixtures.
In particular, smart bins make refuse collection more efficient through compaction and smart collection.
Smart Bins
Despite the ongoing embrace of green technology solutions in Australia, the electric vehicle (EV) is an innovation which is yet to gain significant traction locally.
Global trends suggest we are headed for an EV future which would see a surge in demand for EV charging infrastructure in our communities.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the connection of a network of physical or digital devices to the internet, exchanging data, through embedded sensors and electronics.
Smart street furniture sees this integration of technology into elements of public realm fixtures. It includes items such as benches, bins, lighting, and tables etc. to establish Wi-Fi and Charging networks.
Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Stations
Smart Street Furniture
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the connection of a network of physical or digital devices to the internet, exchanging data, through embedded sensors and electronics. Sensors should form part of an interconnected system of tools which help managers provide services more effectively and efficiently. They can be used to track and report data across a range of environmental measures, with endless uses and applications to help cities operate more efficiently.
IoT Enabled Sensors
Intelligent Lighting
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Smart City Place Based Typologies For Your Exploration
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Place Design Group is a leading planning and design company, working at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds. Place Design Group offers the following Smart City services:
>> Smart City Workshops
>> Smart City Strategies and Frameworks
>> Detailed Smart City Solution Selection,
Design & Delivery
>> Data Analysis and Reporting
>> Community Engagement & Smart City Story
Telling
Contact us at Place Design Group
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Campus development includes multiple buildings often serving a common purpose, such as schools, universities and hospitals. These development types can be located in greenfield, brownfield and 'greyfield' settings. Campus’ often have a single organising and operating entity with mostly private assets and infrastructure. This provides additional incentives to implement smart city solutions that bring about efficiency gains, but also removes many of the regulatory hurdles that are currently associated with smart solutions in public roads and space.
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Bicycle Counters
Renewable Power
Physical activity is essential to the physical and mental health of young people. Children become less active as they get older. Reversing this trend of inactivity requires many solutions, as well as environments and programs to reach more kids. Spending time with peers socialising is one of the main innovators for physical activity for tweens and teens. These influences have become the inspiration for a new generation of electronic playground equipment.
Smart Cities Menu
Wi-Fi Hotspots
Smart Parking
Heavy traffic in our cities is associated with air pollution, safety risks, and losses in terms of accessibility, economic competitiveness, sustainable growth and social cohesion.
There are a number of measures available to address this problem; either by restricting conventional car use, or providing viable alternatives. Bicycles and scooters provide an environmentally friendly transport option for making short trips within a city.
IoT Enabled Sensors
Smart Public Transport
Smart Bins
Digital Playgrounds
Smart Data Connectivity
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the connection of a network of physical or digital devices to the internet, exchanging data, through embedded sensors and electronics.
Smart street furniture sees this integration of technology into elements of public realm fixtures. In particular, smart bins make refuse collection more efficient through compaction and smart collection.
Efficient Lighting
Metrics
Strategic - Enhanced Smart Community Structure Plan
Connected - Number of premises (dwellings and places and space) with access to best-in class broadband infrastructure.
- Percent of outdoor coverage across the community of a publicly accessible LPWAN network(s).
- Percent coverage across the community of 4G/5G mobile infrastructure.
- Use of open integration architecture.
- Mandating of interoperability standards.
- Adoption of common data models.
Innovative - Number of innovation assets.
Street lighting becomes 'intelligent' when it moves beyond a standard on/off operation to a dynamic system which adapts to movement, and provides opportunities for data collection and two-way communication with local authorities.
Intelligent Lighting incorporates extra sensors and technology to help assist with efficient energy usage and data collection.
Click on the icons below to explore the Smart Cities menu items, and learn more about their solutions, outcomes and metrics.
Personal Transport Share Systems
EV Charging Stations
Smart Street Furniture
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Digital kiosks combine a payphone, wi-fi, USB charge docks, local information displays, digital wayfinding and outdoor advertising. Local authorities may seek out partnerships with outdoor media firms and telcos for the installation process.
Outcome
The digital kiosk can be an installation point for numerous types of technology as part of the original design or through retrofit. This could include CCTV, USB charging points, a digital parking metre, and environmental sensors (monitoring light, air quality, noise, etc.).
Metrics
Responsive - Percentage of population engaged through digital channels.
Responsive - Number of or potential realised value of improvement initiatives driven by data.
Innovative - The level of quality of place.
Digital Kiosks
Solution
Motion detectors dim street lights when they are not needed, and increase the illumination when there is movement from pedestrians, cyclists, or vehicles. Intelligent street lighting can also incorporate automated maintenance notifications in the event of failure.
Outcome
Energy consumption is reduced when less lighting is required, especially in low traffic areas. Collected movement data also helps councils engage in data driven decisions. Noise and air pollution detectors, public Wi-Fi and CCTV can also be incorporated into an intelligent street lighting network.
Metrics
Responsive - Decrease in spend on maintenance and operational costs.
Responsive - Number of or potential realised value of improvement initiatives driven by data.
Innovative - The level of quality of place.
Solution
Efficient street lighting involves replacing street light bulbs with energy efficient LED lighting solutions.
Outcome
Replacing bulbs with LED lighting alternatives is energy efficient, and reduces carbon emissions as well as operation costs. It can also deliver better visibility for users, and improves safety. Certain varieties of LED lighting can help to reduce light pollution in built-up areas.
Metrics
Responsive - Decrease in spend on maintenance and operational costs.
Innovative - The level of quality of place.
Solution
Personal Transport Share Systems allow users to pick up and drop off a bicycle/e-bike/e-scooter as needed from pods around the city. 'Dockless' systems also exist where users use an app to find and unlock available devices, with 'geo-fencing' used to define where they can be left for other users.
Outcome
'Smart' integrated systems will support the movement to shift cycling from an individual, disconnected activity to a connected form of transport. Personal transport puts less pressure on roads and public transport networks, with the added benefit of creating healthier communities.
Metrics
Responsive - Number of or potential realised value of improvement initiatives driven by data.
Innovative - The level of quality of place.
Solution
EV charging stations are car parks with electricity outlets capable of charging an electric vehicle's battery. These are currently being delivered by government, however, opportunities exist for partnership with the private sector to deliver and maintain EV charging infrastructure.
Outcome
EV's have the potential to contribute to Australia's broader emissions reduction efforts and improve urban air quality. Installing EV charging stations is a practical sustainable innovation that also provides greater certainty and value for current and future owners of an EV.
Metrics
Responsive - Number of or potential realised value of improvement initiatives driven by data.
Solution
Smart Street Furniture is the integration of functionality like USB Charging and Wi-fi into street furniture such as seats and tables. It uses the IoT to create smart functionality.
Outcome
Providing WiFi and charging capabilities helps get more users online and connected. Improving common access to the internet is an important step in bridging the global digital divide, which in turn improves economic equality.
Solution
Bicycle/pedestrian counters leverage smart technology and internet connectivity to actively count, monitor and track passing cyclists and pedestrians. Digital kiosks on key paths can be used as an engagement tool, highlighting the positive contribution walkers and cyclists are making.
Outcome
The use of a network of sensors and cameras can monitor, count, track and analyse movement patterns. Detailed data on pedestrian and cycling activity will help authorities better understand habits and prioritise future infrastructure needs.
Solution
Solar power and other renewables energy technologies create electrical power from renewables sources like sunlight or kinetic wind energy. Solar panels utilise the interaction of photons and the electrons in atoms to generate a flow of electricity.
Outcome
When integrated into various aspects of infrastructure, solar power and other renewable energy helps reduce electrical costs and reliance on coal technology creating a cleaner and more efficient environment.
Solution
WiFi Hotspots are technological infrastructures that are integrated into environments to provide WiFi and internet connectivity to nearby gadget users. WiFi has many advantages over other technologies because it has evolved to suit many different applications.
Outcome
As smart functionality requires users to be able to connect to it for full functionality. The installation of free to use WiFi hotspots in public areas will help aid and support the process of connecting communities
Metrics
Strategic - Enhanced Smart Community Structure Plan
Connected - Percent coverage across the community of free publicly accessible Wi-Fi.
Responsive - Number of or potential realised value of improvement initiatives driven by data.
Solution
Sensors are installed as an in-ground system that wirelessly transmits data to operators and a smartphone app. Sensors can also be pole mounted that can be complemented with cameras. Smartphone apps can be used to locate parks, manage payments and notify when time is expiring.
Outcome
Smart parking systems can reduce congestion by helping people find parks sooner. They also allow authorities to enforce parking in a more streamlined and automated way using numberplate recognition/ cameras.
Metrics
Responsive - Decrease in spend on maintenance and operational costs
Solution
IoT-enabled sensors can be retrofitted to existing infrastructure such as light poles, traffic lights, and buildings. They include a monitored data feed to trigger a response to conditions when needed.
Outcome
Environmental sensors such as air and water quality monitors, movement sensors or noise monitors enable the collection of data and tracking information that can then be used to inform data driven decision making or alert services to actionable situations.
Metrics
Strategic - Enhanced Smart Community Structure Plan
Connected - Use of open integration architecture.
- Mandating of interoperability standards.
- Adoption of common data models.
Aware - Availability of a city platform (or data integration framework) for the development to connect in to.
Responsive - Decrease in spend on maintenance and operational costs.
- Number of or potential realised value of improvement initiatives driven by data.
Innovative - Number of innovation assets.
Solution
Smart public transport hubs utilise electronic signage to display real-time data and wait information for commuters. The hubs can also integrate public Wi-Fi, phone charging capability and digital entertainment options. These innovations can also form part of the on-board experience.
Outcome
The provision of real-time wait information enhances the user experience and improves customer satisfaction with authorities by easing the frustration and uncertainty caused by delays and long waits. Improving comfort on and around public transport encourages greater patronage.
Solution
Smart Bins are solar powered and capable of compacting trash to save space or notifying waste management when they are full and require emptying.
Outcome
Smart bins are able to leverage IoT technology to create more efficient waste management and reduce strain on council infrastructure. Other technology can also be integrated into bin design to avoid unnecessary duplication and clutter of smart infrastructure in the street.
Metrics
Connected - Mandating of interoperability standards.
Connected - Adoption of common data models.
Responsive - Decrease in spend on maintenance and operational costs.
Solution
Digital playgrounds are interactive digital installations in playgrounds that engage children in more mentally stimulating play routines than traditional analogue play equipment.
Outcome
Digital playgrounds will appeal to the younger more digitally savvy age groups. Interactive play equipment will induce youngsters into thinking digitally and developing their cognitive thinking in a fun and interactive manner.
Intelligent Lighting
Energy Efficient Lighting
Personal Transport Share Systems
Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Stations
Smart Street Furniture
Bicycle/Pedestrian Counters
Renewable Energy
Wi-Fi Hotspots
Smart Parking
IoT Enabled Sensors
Smart Public Transport
Smart Bins
Digital Playgrounds
Digital Playground
Bicycle / Pedestrian Counters
Efficient LED Lighting
Intelligent Lighting
Solution
Digital kiosks combine a payphone, wi-fi, USB charge docks, local information displays, digital wayfinding and outdoor advertising. Local authorities may seek out partnerships with outdoor media firms and telcos for the installation process.
Metrics
Responsive - Percentage of population engaged through digital channels.
Responsive - Number of or potential realised value of improvement initiatives driven by data.
Innovative - The level of quality of place.
Outcome
As smart functionality requires users to be able to connect to it for full functionality. The installation of free to use WiFi hotspots in public areas will help aid and support the process of connecting communities.
Metrics
Strategic - Enhanced Smart Community Structure Plan.
Connected - Percent coverage across the community of free publicly accessible Wi-Fi.
Responsive - Number of or potential realised value of improvement initiatives driven by data.
Metrics
Responsive - Decrease in spend on maintenance and operational costs.
Metrics
Strategic - Enhanced Smart Community Structure Plan
Connected - Use of open integration architecture.
- Mandating of interoperability standards.
- Adoption of common data models.
Aware - Availability of a city platform (or data integration framework) for the development to connect in to.
Responsive - Decrease in spend on maintenance and operational costs.
- Number of or potential realised value of improvement initiatives driven by data.
Innovative - Number of innovation assets.
Greenfield development covers the creation of new urban development on the edge of cities. These projects have little if any legacy utility infrastructure or roads, with everything typically being constructed from new. This allows them to be constructed with the latest technology without the costs of infrastructure retrofitting, augmentation or repairs. They provide a valuable opportunity to easily introduce, pilot and test smart city services, infrastructure and networks in the community, delivering this new infrastructure within a relatively short space of time.
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Brownfield
Campus
Brownfield
Brownfield regeneration can take many forms with many uses, including residential precincts, town centres, entertainment precincts and mixed-use urban villages. Brownfield regeneration is significant because of its potential to create more productive uses of land in close proximity to public transport, employment areas and other amenities. They will often be large redevelopments undertaken by a single developer and as they’re built new, meaningful opportunities exist to create and install enabling smart city infrastructure.
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Greenfield
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Solution
A Smart City Strategy defines what a group of stakeholders want for their 'Smart City' and outlines a variety of strategies for achieving it. They generally include a vision, goals objectives, outcomes, actions, timeframes, responsibilities and budgets; including a suite of technology solutions to enable the desired outcomes to be achieved.
Outcome
'Smartness' is not about technology, but rather how it is used to help the city function effectively, both in its individual systems, and as a whole. The benefits of a smart city vary by stakeholder but can be summarised through improvements to 'Efficiency', 'Leadership', 'Civic Benefits' and 'Continual Learning'.
Metrics
Strategic - Smart Cities/ Communities Strategy.
Strategic - Enhanced Smart Community Structure Plan
Innovative - The level of quality of place.
Smart City Strategy
Smart City Working Groups
Solution
A Smart City Working Group is made up of a variety of government, private and community stakeholders with the purpose of deploying smart city solutions in an integrated approach. This may include the preparation of a Smart City Strategy. The group may deploy its own smart infrastructure and/or create a framework and standards for the delivery of third-party smart technology and networks in a coordinated way.
Outcome
The delivery of Smart City technological solutions through a multi-stakeholder delivery group will help ensure that solutions fix an identifiable problem, are complimentary and co-located to reduce 'tech clutter', and are rolled-out in tandem to minimise construction impacts.
Metrics
Strategic - Smart Cities/ Communities Strategy.
Strategic - Enhanced Smart Community Structure Plan
Strategic - Digitalisation of planning, design, construction and operational practices.
Open Data Platforms
Solution
An Open Data Platform is where public and private institutions create a culture around data that:
>> Shares data quickly, regularly and freely
>> Pools data from multiple sources
>> Promotes data interoperability and seamless connectivity
>> Creates data through inclusion of smart sensors
>> Collects data, even before uses potentially exist for it
Outcome
Having access to better data results in better decisions and outcomes. Open Data is a raw material for economic growth that will support the creation of new products, businesses and jobs.
Metrics
Strategic - Published smart cities policies.
- Digitalisation of planning, design, construction and operational practices.
Aware - Data management and integration agreement.
- Availability of a city platform (or data integration framework) for the development to connect in to.
- Visualisation of key performance indicators for community performance.
- Availability of an open data portal.
- Data communications plan.
- Cultural awareness of data.
Solution
An Open Data Platform is where public and private institutions create a culture around data that:
>> Shares data quickly, regularly and freely
>> Pools data from multiple sources
>> Promotes data interoperability and seamless connectivity
>> Creates data through inclusion of smart sensors
>> Collects data, even before uses potentially exist for it
Open Data Platform
Metrics
Strategic - Smart Cities/ Communities Strategy.
Strategic - Enhanced Smart Community Structure Plan
Strategic - Digitalisation of planning, design, construction and operational practices.
Smart City Working Group
Smart City Strategy