Smart Cities – implications for planning our

cities and places?

Dorte EkelundPrincipal Advisor – Smart Cities

SMEC

What does SMART Cities mean to planning?

We asked ourselves the same question

A recognised leader in the

application of digital

technologies creating

prosperous, liveable, and

sustainable communities

Wikipedia definition

A smart city is an urban development vision to

integrate multiple information and

communication technology (ICT) and Internet of

Things (IoT) solutions in a secure fashion to

manage a city's assets – the city's assets include,

but are not limited to, local departments'

information systems, schools, libraries, ...

Federal Definition

Australian Government’s Smart

Cities Plan to maximize the

potential of Australia’s cities:

- Smart Investment

- Smart Policy

- Smart Technology

Added confusion to Smart Cities

Smart Cities Council ANZVision: working with cities, make the world

livable, workable, sustainable

Represent suppliers of Smarts

Adam Beck

Smart Cities Council ANZ

My Definition

“Smart Cities are sustainable, liveable,

healthy, prosperous and resilient.

They tackle climate change, invest in

living infrastructure, seek additionality

from their infrastructure and embrace

technology to become increasingly

more efficient and effective in

delivering on their aspirations”

Industries are evolving

Smarts Transcends SilosImproving our efficiency and

effectiveness and delivering tangible

benefits to our clients, communities

and the environment.

What does that mean for us?Technology Advancing Quickly

Taking advantage of technology

and using it to support, differentiate

and create new opportunities.

Clients Demanding Data ServicesKnowledge is key to enable our

clients to operate, expand, and

diversify in future markets. Using data

is becoming a necessity we all need

to adopt.

“Innovation and technical excellence are key focus areas for SMEC. We are constantly evolving: in our thinking, our

approach, our technologies and our systems.”

James Phillis SMEC CEO

What does Smart mean for SMEC?

Smart is part of our innovation agenda

“Smart” = the new “Sustainability”

Incorporates all aspects of sustainability (including liveability and productivity) but leverages rapidly advancing technology and data

SMART edgeSJ group wide initiative

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Applying innovation and digital technologies to create

prosperous, liveable, and sustainable communities

SMART edge = Smart Planning?

Digital

Field

Services

Digital

Experience

Services

Digital

Engineering

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SMART Urban SecuritySMART Engagement

SMART DataSMART Water

SMART Asset Management

SMART MobilitySMART Environment SMART Energy SMART Waste

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Smart edge = Smart Planning?

Business as Usual Open Solutions Insights Focused Collaborative

We find the SMART edge together by connecting, collaborating and co-creating

THE USE OF VIRTUAL

REALITY SAVED US TIME,

SAVED OUR CLIENT

MONEY AND MADE THE

DESIGN CONCEPT

SAFER.

Hoddle Street, Melbourne –

Virtual Reality in design, consultation

and safety audit

BUSINESS IMPACT

Modelling: Virtual

representation of proposal

Visualisation: Design,

Production, and Presentation

Validation: Design validation

through immersive virtual

environments

Australia’s first Continuous Flow Intersection -

complex interactions between trams, cars,

buses, cyclists and pedestrians.

Using VR, SMEC’s Road Safety Auditor identified

numerous items that would not have been

identified until construction ordinarily, which would

have been costly to rectify.

ATHERSTONE SMART CITY

SMEC LED

APPLICATION FOR

SMART CITIES

GRANT FROM THE

COMMONWEALTH

GOVERNMENT

Atherstone – How are people using

facilities, where did they come from?

BUSINESS IMPACT

Data provides valuable

insights of people movement.

Interrogations of origins and

destinations.

Easy to scale and add

enhancements.

Parking and use of

public realm?

• Consortium of Lend Lease, Melton City Council,

and technology specialists.

• Develop integrated near real-time data

capture combining high penetration mobile

phone technology, with sophisticated

algorithms and analytical technique

• Map-based decision support system,

dashboard.

DRONE

TECHNOLOGY CAN

BE DEPLOYED IN

DIVERSE SITUATIONS

MORE EFFICIENTLY,

EFFECTIVELY,

SAFETY AND AT

LOWER COST

Virtual Inspections

BUSINESS IMPACT

Data collection without

significant OHS concerns

Desktop assessments without

compromising data quality

Critical insights into assets and

risks enhanced through

efficient data collection

Rapidly advancing drone and video/camera

technology enables efficient and effective

virtual inspection of sites and assets – aerial,

submarine, terrestrial

SMECs SMART Software team produces a

virtual inspection dashboard with all relevant

data within a single view.

Planning Inspections?

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RECOGNITION AND

MACHINE LEARNING

SIGNIFICANTLY MORE

COST EFFECTIVE

THAN MANUAL

PROCESSES

Automated Vehicle Recognition

BUSINESS IMPACT

Data collection to enable

better decision making

Critical insights into transport

movement at significantly

reduced costs

Improved staff and public

understanding of traffic

dynamics

Various organizations need to understand the

effects that population, economic and trade

growth have on transport movement.

Automated collection of traffic data at critical

points using image recognition machine learning

that will read the CCTV data 365days, 24/7.

Transport, pedestrian and cyclist

movement?

Autonomous Vehicles?

• Solver of Transport woes?

• Uncontrollable congestion?

• Shared or private owners?

• Opportunity for last mile?

• Remote Public transport?

• Saviour – old, disabled?

• Pedestrians?

• Perverse urban design?

• Sophie’s choice?

Thankyou for

your time