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Smarter cities needed to achieve
government ambitions
With the government recently
to enable a future smart city?”
announcing a desire to help our cities
He says other countries around the world
grow up and out, leading New Zealand
are becoming so innovative in terms of
IoT expert Kriv Naicker has questioned
smart technology. Vienna is reputed as
whether New Zealand is falling behind in
one of the world’s greenest cities, and
the use of smart city technology to help
leaders in using green energy.
achieve this goal.
The Austrian capital plans to install more
Smart city innovations, using sensors,
than 300,000 solar panels by 2020, has
the internet of things and automation
the world’s largest biomass plant, and
systems, provide promising new ways
offers more than 90 percent of people
of engaging citizens and increasing
convenient public transportation access.
quality of life.
Amsterdam is also big on renewable
“New Zealand cities appear to be
energy include electric trucks that pickup
missing the full opportunity to leverage
garbage, along with solar panels
these technologies”, Naicker, the NZ IoT
powering bus stops, billboards and lights
Alliance chair, says.
and autonomous river boats.
"As a nation, we should be looking at the
Thousands of Dutch businesses and
role of technology to help solve some
households have been modified with
of our bigger problems like housing,
energy efficient roofing insulation,
congestion and sustainability.
automatically dimming light switches,
“While we dig up Auckland roads to
smart meters, and ultra-low energy LED
create the City Rail Link, are we investing
lights.
At the recent New Zealand IoT
Alliance conference, key questions
asked included: how can organisation
leaders be persuaded to prioritise
smart city project investment? Who
are the right stakeholders to include in
a smart city project and how can Kiwis
engage them? And what applications
are the best ones to start with and
do these provide value over the long
term?
Naicker says IoT is a cornerstone of
smart city enablement but needs to
be considered in full integration and
alignment with mobile 5G, AI and
machine learning, AR/ VR and other
key exponential technologies.
“Smart city enablement will require
these technologies to be evaluated as
an integrated proposition and current
initiatives need to be accelerated on
this basis.”
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