Our close interaction with the City of Melbourne has allowed us
to unearth the vast ICT potential in making the entire system
more efficient. From the technological perspective, the evolution
of social networking in the past decade clearly shows the
usability of ICT at an individual’s level. Large-scale implementations
at system level have made some progress in recent years.
A fully integrated system of systems containing sensing, storage,
analytics, and interpretation is required. The integrated system
must have core capabilities of plug-and-play sensing, secure data
aggregation, quality of service (QoS), and re-configurability.
With an urban sensing system of systems in place, the ability to
evaluate the impact of the preceding actions is readily available
as the sensing cycle repeats.