What does Smart mean forhuman habitation?

Nick Falkner, Director, Australian Smart Cities Consortium

SMART

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Making the best use of the resources that you have,

augmented with technology, to improve quality of life and make

habitats thrive.

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DESIRE

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SMART

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Just knowing what’s happening isn’t enough. To improve the

way we live requires us to use the data effectively.

MEASUREMENT

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ANALYSISDECISIONS

MEASUREMENT

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• Surveys• Interviews• Observations

MEASUREMENT

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• Electronic measurement• Existing systems• Internet of Things

SENSORS THEN

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• Expensive• Custom or application-

locked• Not truly networked

SENSORS NOW

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• Cheap• Larger range• Directly networked

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ANALYSIS

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• Data deluge• Machine learning over

huge datasets• Find answers and questions

DECISIONS

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Good local context requires large-scale participation and

everyone being able to contribute to and work with the

data corpus.

DECISIONS

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Improving the way we live requires us to ask the right

questions and make informed decisions, in the local social and

economic context.

The University of Adelaide’sLiving Lab

Large scale LoRaWANproject

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Adelaide’s LoRaWAN Network

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• Things Network• University of Adelaide• Council consortium

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• Connectivity across the greater metropolitan area

• Regional coverage in a number of areas

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• Data concentration• Privacy and ethical data

considerations• Link to analysis partners

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• Low cost of participation• Active partnerships• Research and development• Innovation/transformation