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8 Thursday April 13 2017 Latest Christchurch news at www. .kiwi The Star News Using new technologies to make Over the past year, the city council has been trying to make Christchurch more tech savvy through the Smart Cities programme. Bridget Rutherford takes a look at what the team has been working on TERESA McCALLUM reckons she’s got the best job in the world. She is trying to make the city more tech savvy, and a safer and better place to live and visit. Since November 2015, she has been the city council’s Smart Cities programme manager. Her role is to come up with new ways of doing things through technology that will both improve the way the city operates and save money. But it’s not done in the conventional way that city council’s normally work. She comes up with the ideas, develops them and carries out ‘proof of concept’ trials. They don’t write long reports or do public consultation – they MODERN: Smart Cities programme manager Teresa McCallum with a sensor, which will help ticket people who park in disabled car parks. PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER simply trial them cheaply and see whether they work. If so, they will become permanent. 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Shop online at: www.computercentre.co.nz Smart Cities spent $315,000 in the 2016 financial year, and got $165,000 in funding from $699 incl GST $599 incl GST Land Information New Zealand, which initiated the programme. So far this financial year, it has spent $610,000, and recieved $160,000 from LINZ. The programme is also being carried out in Auckland and Wellington. But Ms McCallum said due to the earthquakes and the rebuild, Christchurch is the perfect place to trial these concepts. “We have a chance to do something different that no one else in the country is in a position to do.” SmartView Wouldn’t it be great to have an online hub where you could go to get all the information you need about Christchurch? That’s exactly what Smart Cities has been working on. SmartView, which is hoped to be up and running by June, is a website where you can find out anything about the city, including water quality, weather, recent earthquakes, air quality, road works, bus routes with live locations of where the bus is, travel times, flight information, activities, events and news. Soon Ms McCallum wants to include a section where you could find every car park in the city – and what ones are free. 379-3589 379-3589 SmartRubbish It may seem small, but overflowing rubbish bins make up a lot of the city council’s complaints. Smart Cities has been trialling two ‘big belly’ bins in New Brighton for rubbish and recycling. They are solar panelled and can hold six times the amount of rubbish than normal bins because they self-compact. When they are full, they send an email to contractors to empty them, and they also stop the seagulls from getting into them. If the three-month trial proves successful, more bins may be rolled out. 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The Star Latest Christchurch news at www. .kiwi Thursday April 13 2017 9 Christchurch a smart city to live in Kiosks Electronic touch screen kiosks are being developed which would be placed in different parts of the city to provide residents and tourists with information. It is likely they will have SmartView loaded on them. They have three different dimensions so kids, people in wheelchairs and taller people can all reach the screen. The team is still working out locations and how many they would create. Bin Level Sensors Along with the SmartRubbish trial, Smart Cities is also working on trialling bin level sensors which tell contractors when they are full. They have a volume, tilt and heat sensor. These would save contractors’ time because they will know exactly what bins need attention, and it would also show what ones are actually used. It can also save money, in Santander, Spain, level sensor monitoring has been installed in all public refuse bins. As a result, it has saved 1.5 million Euros annually in diesel costs along, as contractors do on demand emptying EQ Response Visualiser Software is being developed that generates images following an earthquake showing the peak ground acceleration. It will generate a coloured ‘heat map’, which will show where in the city was worst affected. This is a huge improvement over the old method of magnitude and location. The city council owns more than 1000 facilities and it wants to continually improve on its assessment and prioritisation processes. once the earthquake visualiser has developed its map, city council engineers will be able to see where they should start their assessments. This information will be uploaded to SmartView to be used by any individual or agency. The concept was developed as part of last year’s GovHack competition and later came second at the international awards in Adelaide. GovHack team members have formed a company called Sense3 to deliver the project for the city council. It is hoped to be trialled within six months. Sensibel Sensibels are a small piece of equipment, with a bell, which can be clipped onto bicycle handle bars. Smart Cities is looking to roll them out so people can use them when they are riding, and can ring the bell once for a negative experience, and twice for a positive one. The feedback is sent to a mobile phone, then to the cloud, to be used to map what areas need to be improved. Fabriko is making them now. Sensor Network A sensor network, made up of what are known as ‘kites’, would have a number of different uses, including measuring air quality. Environment Canterbury has air quality monitoring stations in St Albans and Woolston. Smart Cities wants to set them up across the city – the problem is, ECan’s ones cost about $60,000 each. So the team has bought cheap equipment to attach to the kites, costing about $200 each. It has installed them next to ECan’s stations to see if their results match. If successful, they will be rolled out across the city, with the results fed onto SmartView. Although they would only provide a rough estimate, it would give residents an idea of air quality where they live. Seismic Monitoring Network In other cities across the world, it is a legislative requirement to install accelerometers in significant buildings to measure how they move in an earthquake. But in New Zealand it’s not. So Smart Cities is installing six, made by Trimble, in Christchurch Art Gallery to monitor it during an earthquake. Ms McCallum says it’s clear there’s a need for technology providing data to engineers about buildings’ safety, and to reduce the impact of their loss of earnings and productivity when buildings are evacuated as they wait for an engineer’s inspection. The monitoring network would monitor how the building holds up in a quake, provide information on whether it could be occupied and if it needs to be assessed urgently. •Turn to page 10 Still trying to get your EQ damage or repair issues sorted We’ve helped hundreds of homeowners get what their policy promises. Talk to us about our “no win-no fee” approach. NO WIN NO FEE Ph: 03 377 8855 | 127 Ferry Road, Christchurch City E: reception@earthquakeservices.co.nz | W: www.earthquakeservices.co.nz

8 Thursday <strong>April</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

Latest Christchurch news at www. .kiwi<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />

News<br />

Using new technologies to make<br />

Over the past year,<br />

the city council has<br />

been trying to make<br />

Christchurch more<br />

tech savvy through<br />

the Smart Cities<br />

programme. Bridget<br />

Rutherford takes a look<br />

at what the team has<br />

been working on<br />

TERESA McCALLUM reckons<br />

she’s got the best job in the<br />

world.<br />

She is trying to make the city<br />

more tech savvy, and a safer and<br />

better place to live and visit.<br />

Since November 2015, she has<br />

been the city council’s Smart Cities<br />

programme manager.<br />

Her role is to come up with<br />

new ways of doing things<br />

through technology that will<br />

both improve the way the city<br />

operates and save money.<br />

But it’s not done in the conventional<br />

way that city council’s<br />

normally work.<br />

She comes up with the ideas,<br />

develops them and carries out<br />

‘proof of concept’ trials.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y don’t write long reports<br />

or do public consultation – they<br />

MODERN: Smart Cities<br />

programme manager<br />

Teresa McCallum with a<br />

sensor, which will help<br />

ticket people who park in<br />

disabled car parks.<br />

PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER<br />

simply trial them cheaply and see<br />

whether they work. If so, they<br />

will become permanent.<br />

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Smart Cities spent $315,000<br />

in the 2016 financial year, and<br />

got $165,000 in funding from<br />

$699<br />

incl GST<br />

$599<br />

incl GST<br />

Land Information New Zealand,<br />

which initiated the programme.<br />

So far this financial year, it<br />

has spent $610,000, and recieved<br />

$160,000 from LINZ.<br />

<strong>The</strong> programme is also being<br />

carried out in Auckland and<br />

Wellington.<br />

But Ms McCallum said due to<br />

the earthquakes and the rebuild,<br />

Christchurch is the perfect place<br />

to trial these concepts.<br />

“We have a chance to do something<br />

different that no one else in<br />

the country is in a position to do.”<br />

SmartView<br />

Wouldn’t it be great to have an<br />

online hub where you could go to<br />

get all the information you need<br />

about Christchurch? That’s exactly<br />

what Smart Cities has been<br />

working on. SmartView, which is<br />

hoped to be up and running by<br />

June, is a website where you can<br />

find out anything about the city,<br />

including water quality, weather,<br />

recent earthquakes, air quality,<br />

road works, bus routes with live<br />

locations of where the bus is,<br />

travel times, flight information,<br />

activities, events and news.<br />

Soon Ms McCallum wants<br />

to include a section where you<br />

could find every car park in the<br />

city – and what ones are free.<br />

379-3589<br />

379-3589<br />

SmartRubbish<br />

It may seem small, but overflowing<br />

rubbish bins make up<br />

a lot of the city council’s complaints.<br />

Smart Cities has been<br />

trialling two ‘big belly’ bins in<br />

New Brighton for rubbish and<br />

recycling.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y are solar panelled and<br />

can hold six times the amount<br />

of rubbish than normal bins<br />

because they self-compact.<br />

When they are full, they send<br />

an email to contractors to empty<br />

them, and they also stop the<br />

seagulls from getting into them.<br />

If the three-month trial proves<br />

successful, more bins may be<br />

rolled out.<br />

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