Melbourne Smart City
Information Certainty: Speculative
Deployment Purpose: Surveillance
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Products and Institutions:
| Product Deployed | Cubic Gridsmart (Camera) |
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| Institutions ⠉ | Cubic |
| Datasets | Unknown Dataset 0055 |
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Status and Events:
| Status | Planned |
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| Managed by | City of Melbourne |
| Used by | City of Melbourne |
Location:
| City | Melbourne |
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| Country ⠉ | Australia |
Description[ ]
Like other major cities in Australia, smart city developments are planned for Melbourne. Though details of the biometrics in use or not are not forthcoming, it can be speculated that some of the technologies will have this potential. Gridsmart cameras are in use, which have object recognition capabilities. It is unclear whether they also have facial recognition, but other Cubic developed cameras do. The city also states it does not make personal data public or share it. It does not declare whether or not it collects it.
Gridsmart uses its fisheye Bell Camera, along with real-time computer vision tracking and deep neural net classification, to track and discriminate bicyclists from other road users as they pass into and through intersections 3
As a smart city, we're already off and running. We're prototyping tailor-made initiatives such as our work with people who are blind, deaf or deaf–blind to better understand how they navigate through the city. As a result of this research, we've partnered with Vision Australia to trial beacon technology in Campbell Arcade, which transmits location-specific information to phones. And our Open Data platform has almost 100 unique data sets that are available for anyone to access and use, such as our 24-hour pedestrian counting system, which helps us understand pedestrian activity in our busiest locations so we can better plan for population growth in the future. That's how a smart city should operate – adopting useful innovation that folds seamlessly into how we live our lives to improve our day-to-day experiences 1
It appears that many technologies are tested in Melbourne at a smaller scale.
The testbed was established to investigate how local government can collaborate with industry partners and support the roll out of modern technologies in a way that: Maximises the productivity and efficiency benefits to Melbourne of emerging technologies like 5G and IoT, Enables access to shared city data (i.e. asset and environmental data, not personal data) for our municipality, including via City of Melbourne’s open data platform, Enables citizens, local businesses, government agencies (e.g. emergency services) and researchers to access and benefit from modern technologies,
Creates new opportunities for Melbourne businesses at home and abroad, and encourages inward investment 4
References
- a b "Melbourne as a smart city - City of Melbourne". (2022) <http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/about-melbourne/melbourne-profile/smart-city/Pages/smart-city.aspx> Accessed: 2022-06-22
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- a b "Melbourne uses AI cameras to help increase safety at intersections". (2020) <https://www.smartcitiesworld.net/news/news/melbourne-uses-ai-cameras-to-help-increase-safety-at-intersections-5449> Accessed: 2022-06-22
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