Smart Cities
We bring smart cities to life
Connect. Automate. Innovate. Enchance. Engage
Every day, we ensure punctuality by using real-time navigation to take the most efficient routes, reserve parking spots online, and follow precise public transit schedules. But how is all this possible?
Smart cities leverage advanced technology to enhance urban services, reduce costs, and minimize resource use while improving citizen interaction. These innovations open up new avenues for urban development and growth.
At their core, smart cities integrate IoT, sensors, and AI to optimize services like transportation, energy, and public safety. Key features include smart traffic management, energy-efficient grids, and widespread connectivity. The goal is to create more sustainable, resilient, and livable urban spaces.
Key features of a Smart City include:
Smart transportation: Optimized traffic flow, parking assistance, and electric vehicle (EV) charging stations.
Energy efficiency: Smart grids and renewable energy integration for more sustainable power management.
Resource management: Efficient use of water, waste, and other public resources.
Connectivity: Widespread high-speed internet, public Wi-Fi, and digital services for residents and businesses.
Public safety: Surveillance systems, emergency response optimization, and environmental monitoring.
Ultimately, Smart Cities aim to create more livable, sustainable, and resilient urban environments by improving the interaction between people, technology, and the built environment.
How does a smart city work?
A smart city works by integrating technology, data, and infrastructure to improve urban life and optimise resource management.
By combining data, technology, and automation, smart cities create more efficient, sustainable, and responsive urban environments.
IoT Sensors & Data Collection
Smart cities use IoT devices like sensors and cameras to gather real-time data on traffic, air quality, and energy usage, which is then analysed to improve city operations.
Automation & Smart Infrastructure
Automated systems manage services such as traffic lights, street lighting, and waste collection, while smart grids balance energy supply and demand for improved efficiency.
Connectivity & Community Engagement
High-speed internet and public Wi-Fi keep communities connected, while apps allow residents to access services like parking, public transport, and emergency alerts.
Public Safety & Environmental Monitoring
Surveillance systems enhance security, and environmental sensors monitor pollution, helping cities improve safety and address ecological challenges.
We support cities in the transition from conventional to connected while creating the foundations for other smart city sensors with the quality and reliability they need
George Verghese
Business Manager
How we support the Smart Cities Plan
Australia & New Zealand have some of the best, most liveable cities in the world. Our cities — regional and metropolitan — are also where most of our people live and where most of our economic output is produced.
As our economy and knowledge-based industries grow, so too do our cities. However, in order to capitalise on this burgeoning opportunity, we need to rethink the way our cities are planned, built and managed today and into the future.
The Smart Cities Plan sets out the Government’s vision for our cities, and its plan for maximising their potential. It includes three pillars: Smart Investment, Smart Policy and Smart Technology. SCS uses technology across these three pillars to improve outcomes across city operations and enhance the services local governments and city councils offer their residents.
Our Smart City services integrates devices and data to drive civic and governance decision-making, and also creates networks of partners among governments, businesses, non-profits, community groups, universities, and hospitals to expand and improve the ability to serve citizens.ere
Moving into future
Anything that can be connected, will be connected. The Internet of Things (IoT) has triggered a paradigm shift. It has provided cities with senses and a voice as embedded devices talk to each other, waking up a vast network of otherwise ‘sleeping infrastructure.’
SCS is working on an artificial intelligence platform or ‘brain’ that connects all of the applications and solutions into one large ‘Smart’ neural network. We will do this by connecting an open standards-based network with a technology and device agnostic multi-application services and integrate all of the solutions required using a rich global partner ecosystem.into valuable insights provides stakeholders with better visibility, decision making and real-time response capabilities.