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Smart Cities Institute
Presentation by Professor Peter Newton FASSA
Research Professor in Sustainable Urbanism
Swinburne University of Technology
Friday 15 April 2016
Smart CitiesProcess and concept
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Process to date:• Sept. 2015 Institutes Working Group identify prospective Institutes (5), including Smart Cities• Oct. 2015 Swinburne Institutes Model announced• Nov. 2015 Smart Cities Working Group meeting (comprising 20 research active Professors from all
Faculties and relevant Centres → Draft Synthesis Report → Feedback → Final Report• Mar. 2016 Smart Cities Stakeholder Workshop (comprising 14 CEO/Senior Executive
representatives from government and industry; 8 Swinburne Professors)• Apr. 2016 Staff Research ForumSmart Cities Concept:Smart Cities is viewed as an ‘umbrella’ term that represents a wide spectrum of research capable of embracing part or all of the following dimensions: smart ICT (digital technologies eg. computing, comms, sensing, big data, e-services etc), smart infrastructure (ie ICT plus urban networks/utilities; eg. transport, communications, energy, water, waste etc .. see Smart Cities Council partners), & smart cities (meshes smart ICT and smart infrastructure with technology-enabled people-centred research capable of delivering transformative change in cities aligned to Australian COAG performance objectives (productive, competitive, liveable, equitable, resilient, sustainable).
Smart Cities
Raison d’etre(from Stakeholder Workshop
facilitator’s report)
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Context for Institute’s mission: big cities grappling with a set of critical issues:
PEOPLE: Population (growth, ageing); Mobility (adequacy of transport infrastructure, congestion, access to services, carbon signatures – active transport, EVs); Participation (equity of access, engagement, new social media); Health (lifestyles and health care); Prosperity
PLACE: Retrofitting/ regeneration/ renewal of built environment; Access (to jobs, services); Affordability (housing); Sustainability/resilience/adaptability; Productivity
SOCIETAL/STRUCTURAL: Climate change; New technologies; Digitalisation (city of bits); Social complexity & cohesion; Urban Governance (outdated processes); Fiscal stress
Institute challenge: understanding the vision, challenges and problems linked with key city stakeholders and matching with Swinburne researchcapabilities
Smart CitiesResults of Researchers’ Smart City Working Group
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Objective:Institute research should focus on a set of grand challenges for large, fast growing cities (in Australia and globally) that require trans-disciplinary socio-technical research teams drawing on capabilities in three thematic research areas supported by a Digital Innovation Platform and a cross-cutting knowledge cluster on new urban governance processes capable of enabling transformative change
KnowledgeCluster
New urban governance processes for socio-technical transformation(legal, financial, regulatory, engagement, decision-making etc)
Thematic 1 Future urban mobility
Research 2 Smart spaces for home and work
Areas 3 Future urban infrastructure, services and delivery systems
Digital Platform Big data access, integration, analytics, visualisation……
Smart Cities
Thematic Research Area : Future Urban Mobility: making cities accessible to their resident populations; reducing congestion and enhancing economic productivity; decarbonising urban travel; improving human health
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Identified areas of research capability:
Complex systems modelling of existing land-use and transport in cities and alternative/future urban forms, densities etcTransport demand/supply modelling for existing and future scenarios of potential shifts in both demand and supply ; identifying pathways for shaping future mobility behavioursEmerging modes of urban mobility (eg. AVs…assessing their comparative economic, social and environmental attractiveness …for different urban locations/fabrics, populations etc)Social surveys, data mining, econometric and choice modellingLow/zero emission transport solutions (eg. EVs, active transport)Smart mobile citizenry (management of movement in different types of urban location/ built environment; shared mobility on demand services)ITS, smart signalling, route optimisation
Smart CitiesThematic Research Area : Smart Spaces for Home and Work: micro-scale redesign of indoor environments (where populations in advanced societies spend >95% of their time) in anticipation of changing demographics and industry futures
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Identified areas of research capability:
Social science research directed towards understanding the changing space
and service needs of rapidly changing urban populations – as they age (across
all life cycle stages, but with particular reference to an ageing society and its
challenges of urban living related to dementia, disability, mobility etc), and
become more socially and culturally diverse etc
Micro-design (retrofit) options for adaptation of housing (and workplaces);
interior redesign, energy efficient retrofits;
Future working environments eg. hospitals of the future (modular, green, smart
ICT, robotics)
Smart housing, smart appliances, smart meters, smart home operating
systems, wearables….and how to make fast fail assessments of their
utility/attractiveness to potential consumers/users; data capture and analytics to
better understand in-home activities (social practices, behaviour….key to
behaviour change programs)
Smart Cities
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Thematic Research Area : Future Urban Infrastructures & Delivery Systems: traditional modes of building design and assembly and network infrastructure delivery are
failing in the face of major eco-efficiency challenges (cost + environmental performance) and
outmoded governance systems. Disruptive systems are emerging and need to become
mainstream. ICT creating new tools for virtual design & management of built environment/
urban infrastructures
Identified areas of research capability:
Building and precinct information modelling
Modular assembly of buildings
Precinct scale design and retrofit (buildings, energy, water, green infrastructure
etc.)
Distributed energy and storage (solar PV, battery storage,microgrids etc);
planning and management of hybrid energy systems
Rapid design & prototyping (visualisation, performance assessment, 3D printing)
New governance and engagement models for institutional and community
stakeholders in support of co-design
Design for deconstruction and reuse/recycling of materials
Extending the life of infrastructure through smart retrofit techniques
Smart Cities
Knowledge Cluster: New urban governance processes for socio-technical transformation: the types of urban innovation required of cities to meet 21st century challenges will
continue to confront major barriers to change unless new models and processes are
created for socio-technical transition.
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Identified areas of research capability:
Corporate social responsibility, regulation, internet enabled multi-stakeholder
communication, new modes of community engagement , integrated TBL
assessment, risk assessment and risk sharing, systems for sustainable
procurement, leadership and social entrepreneurship, system performance
monitoring and reporting.
The mix of disciplinary research capabilities in this area would be drawn from
social sciences, economics, business, law, social and public policy, information
and business systems, leadership and entrepreneurship studies – and directed
towards new models and processes by which social, design and technological
innovation can be more effectively implemented into city planning, delivery and management programs.
Smart Cities
Digital Innovation Platform: Digital Information Platform for Smart Cities
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Swinburne capabilities relevant to Smart Cities:o Data, user, text and visual analytics
o Algorithms to process large and interconnected data sets such as graphs
o Extracting insights from data by trend identification and simplified yet effective
presentation
o Efficiently processing data that arrives at high speed from sensors, networks or
log files (data streams)
o Developing learning methods and real-time recognition from smartphone sensor
inputs
o Building novel approaches to unify data from multiple sources and with different
formats or levels of detail
o Effectively using distributed systems and cloud computing to store and
communicate Big Data
Smart CitiesSwinburne Research Centres and Labs linked to Smart Cities
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Current Research Centres represented by individual research ‘affiliates’ are: • Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures; • Centre for Design Innovation; • Centre for Social Impact Swinburne; • Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure; • Centre for Transformative Innovation; • Swinburne Institute for Social Research; and • Swinburne University Centre for Computing and Engineering Software
Systems
There are several research laboratories that are potentially aligned to research themes aligned to Smart Cities:CDI Lab, Smart Structures lab, Smart Mobility Lab, Design Factory, Factory of the Future, CISCO Lab, CATI Lab, Intelligent Transport systems lab, EV Lab, Designfor Aging (L5 ATC), SSI Lab, Software Innovation Lab
Smart CitiesFormal Links to Established National Research Centres of Relevance to Smart Cities:
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• Sustainable Built Environment National Research Centre
• Co-operative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living
• Co-operative Research Centre for Spatial Information
• Co-operative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities
• AUTO CRC
• Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN)
• Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
• Bushfire CRC
• CSIRO/NICTA /Data61 • ITS Australia
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