Melbourne Smart City

Melbourne Smart City
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Deployment Status	Planned
Deployment Start Date
Deployment End Date
Events
City	Melbourne
Country	Australia
Involved Entities
Keywords
Technology Deployed	Cubic Gridsmart (Camera)
Information Certainty	Documented
Primary sources	1, 2
Datasets Used	Unknown Dataset 0055
Deployment Type	Analytics, Biometric Cameras
runs search software
managed by	City of Melbourne
used by	City of Melbourne
Potentially used by
Information Certainty	0
Summary	0

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Information Certainty: Speculative

Deployment Purpose: Surveillance

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Products and Institutions:

Product Deployed	Cubic Gridsmart (Camera)
Institutions ⠉	Cubic
Datasets	Unknown Dataset 0055
Search software

Status and Events:

Status	Planned
Events
Start Date
End Date

Users:

Involved Entities
Managed by	City of Melbourne
Used by	City of Melbourne

Location:

City	Melbourne
Country ⠉	Australia

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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.

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 1

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 2