Darwin’s smart street lights set national benchmark

More than 9,500 public and street lights in Darwin are being converted to a smart lighting system.

11 May, 2020

Aussie AI vendor wins $2.5m contract with City of Las Vegas

An Australian company has won a $2.5 million tender to provide the City of Las Vegas with AI parking management.

19 April, 2020

Land use census platform improves council planning

A cloud-based technology is helping councils understand their municipalities and improve urban planning.

16 March, 2020

Aussie councils in running for top international gong

Australian councils have been named in the Intelligent Community Forum’s Top7 of 2020.

13 February, 2020

The 5 top trends driving smart cities in 2020

During 2020, increasing attention will be directed at the challenge of creating what is known as Smart Cities. These densely populated areas need to be efficient and provide high quality of life.

27 January, 2020

Melbourne outranks Sydney as a smart city

Melbourne has been ranked sixth in a global comparison of smart cities.

28 November, 2019

Councils get smarter with data

Digital tools such as smart contracts and data-commons licenses are letting citizens share data on their own terms.

9 September, 2019

Safety in the age of the smart city

How do we construct and manage cities so that everything, and everyone, flows smoothly today and in the future – particularly ensuring a city’s resilience after a major incident, unplanned event or emergency?

3 September, 2019

High-tech bins to tackle Sydney’s beach rubbish

Smart bins that alert collection teams when they need emptying are being trialed at a Sydney beach.

2 September, 2019

Predictive technology takes pain out of parking

Newcastle has been become the first Australian city to trial a new predictive parking technology that has been adopted across Europe.

17 July, 2019

Smart city strategies pay off for Newcastle, Prospect

Newcastle and Prospect councils have been crowned the nation’s top smart metropolitan cities.

3 June, 2019

Gold Coast unveils nation’s largest digital network

The City of Gold Coast wants to become Australia’s leading digital city by 2021.

20 May, 2019

Call to relocate population-crunched Aus cities

A city planning expert says the government should consider relocating Australia’s most population-slammed cities.

20 May, 2019

Inside Europe’s biggest local government conference

An Australian delegate discusses key takeaways from Europe’s biggest gathering of local government professionals. 

15 April, 2019