With the help of American multinational digital communications technology corporation Cisco, Australia is transforming Newcastle into its first digitally active ‘smart city.’
Smart cities are innovative and digitised model cities that promise high-tech infrastructure, better broadband coverage, and transparency by unifying otherwise disparate data of city maintenance and governance into a single database.
Newcastle council’s smart city coordinator Nathaniel Bavinton said he wanted to open Newcastle up for innovative experiments in order to thrive in the 21st century.
“We really want to turn the city into an environment where people come to experiment,” Bavinton told Australians vs. The Agenda.
He wants to build an Internet of Things (IoT) platform to better plan for the future, manage events better, and run the city more efficiently and sustainably….
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