Smart Cities Project Officer
CurrentAt the City of Casey, the Smart City program uses technology and innovation to collect and use data to drive better decision-making. The decisions our data influences include city planning, accessibility, community programming, site redevelopment and more. My role in this includes:• Consulting with internal stakeholders and the community to understand the challenges people experience daily. • Developing and recommending solutions to validate the root cause of issues through data gathering and to help build a business case for an enduring and appropriate resolution.• Working with city planning teams to create development control plans to ensure smart infrastructure is built into space planning. • Installation of free public WiFi to abolish the digital divide in Australia and provide digital equity to Casey communities with socioeconomic, gendered, cultural and ableist barriers to accessing the internet.• Deploying a sensory IoT layer across the city to capture data about how the community uses various assets, facilities, and precincts to drive decision-making around accessibility, redevelopment requirements and the suitability of facilities in Casey.• Work with startups, local industry entrepreneurs and the education sector to understand community concerns and research barriers and provide them opportunities to explore solutions they have to offer through the process of a "living lab" that uses Casey as their test bed.• Experiment with new data-gathering solutions that utilise IoT technology for one-off small-scale prototype deployments.• Collaborate and network with other local government departments to replicate the success of smart city implementations in their municipalities.• Amalgamate and share collected data with the community using the Open Data Platform.