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A major sporting facility in the City of Bunbury recently underwent a digital transformation to reduce energy consumption and improve efficiency, with help from VROC.  'These automations work together to help optimise the Cities resources, and improve services to the community.' - Mal Osborne,…
Washington DC based Smart Cities Council, the world’s largest and longest-running Smart Cities Social Impact Organization, has entered a global Education and Training Partnership between Smart Cities Academy and Barcelona-based ZIGURAT Institute of Technology.  LEARN MORE In addition to building…
We're looking for fresh minds, great attitudes and people hungry for hands-on experience within the longest-running global smart cities community. Company Description The Smart Cities Council is a global member organization dedicated to championing the use of science, data, technology, and…
On 01 August, Smart Cities Council will head to Auckland for the 2023 Data and Digital Twin Summit. Hosted at the beautiful Beca offices in Pitt Street, we'll be joined by sponsors, stakeholders and smart cities practitioners to share learnings to build capability, capacity and collaboration in the…
Avonet recently helped to upskill ValAi’s team with additional resources and helped to deploy homeefficiencyaustralia.com Allys Todd – Founder Val.Ai - and her team required a technology partner to build their MVP. The project involved AWS and NAB to test some hypotheses in the…
What we understand as the concept of smart cities has been around for over 40 years. However, it has gained momentum over the past few years, with the potential to revolutionise the way we live and work in urban areas. Through the integration of digital twins, Internet of Things (IoT) devices,…
Social Spaces: Designing public space with data This green wavy chair was designed using data and installed in a popular public place in Carlton, Melbourne.  Sensors and observational analysis are helping to capture how the design is being used and how well it matches the needs of the community…
A Business Continuity Management System is crucial for smart places wanting to maintain uninterrupted services, enhance resilience, protect critical infrastructure, build stakeholder confidence, comply with regulations, and facilitate collaboration. By investing in a robust BCMS, smart places can…
In partnership with Spark IoT, Selwyn District Council is the first New Zealand organisation to embark on an innovative digital community engagement service offering, which aims to deliver a more personalised user experience for the local community outside of existing digital and social media…
In recent years, our cities have experienced significant deforestation as a result of private and public development, leading to a reduction in tree numbers and vegetation cover. This loss has had a detrimental impact on our cities; overall green infrastructure, making it more difficult to adapt…
As well as the business aspects of a tender for a counting application, there are several technical aspects that reviewers should be aware of. This white paper discusses those technical aspects in detail. These can be divided into the following areas:  Performance  Data format, access, etc …
Brisbane City Council has prepared a suite of publications to use as checklists when collecting, storing and analysing datasets to ensure that the data is accurate, reliable and does not compromise the privacy or security of your city’s residents, visitors or businesses. These templates may be…
The Singapore government listed the Punggol Digital District (PDD) as the first “Smart Business District” in Singapore in the submission of their Smart City Action Plan (SCAP) in the ASEAN Smart Cities Network (ASCN). My first article for this Thought Leadership series provided lessons from PDD,…
Smart Cities Council was proud to hold the Sustainability Innovations Summit in Washington, D.C. this April. The event took place at the National Press Club and welcomed a lot of incredible speakers from the public and private sectors.  Take a look at the recordings from the sessions. Energy and…
Smart Cities Council and Global Affairs Canada have joined to bring you three webinar episodes focusing on accelarating and optimizing smart city journeys. Hosted by Alby Boccanegra, Furturist in Residence with Smart Cities Council, each webinar focuses on introducing Canadian solution providers…