Focus Area: Smart Places and Spaces

  • Walking and cycling around our green spaces will be safer, cleaner and greener

  • Parks, paths and playgrounds will seamlessly embed smart, digital opportunities into daily life

  • Behind the scenes, data sharing and analysis will drive efficient asset management and sustainability

Objectives

To ensure infrastructure meets the current and emerging community priorities of our growing city by using data and innovation

To increase the safety of public spaces for all members of the community by leveraging smart planning, data and technology

To lead sustainability and mobility initiatives that meet community needs through innovation and smart technology

Innovative use of sensors

City of Casey has started using sensors for people and traffic counting in and around its facilities. People counting helps us determine peak times for public utilities and they can help us to determine how people and vehicles interact at busy intersections.

Smart sensors can also help us understand information about the people we are counting such as if someone is using a mobility aid. This data is valuable when considering redevelopment work to understand how we can best design public spaces in a way that's more accessible to people in the community with accessability requirements.


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Smart City case study

Outdoor dining pedestrian counting dashboard

To assist with COVID-19 restrictions and social distancing, as well as future planning, we've installed pedestrian sensors at our key activity centres and footpaths.

This allows community members and businesses to get real time information, and view data from previous days to help determine the busy and quiet times to make smarter and COVID safe decisions.

This not only offers residents an opportunity to pick the time they can go out to the precincts safely, but also provides local businesses with insights to enhance their operations, and assists us to plan safe events or pop-up precincts in the future.

View the dashboards and learn more about the project here: https://businessincasey.com.au/sensing-our-city