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The City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters has already started its smart city journey.

As a smart city, the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters will join global leaders such as London, Toronto and Tokyo in using infrastructure, innovation and technology to improve liveability in the City.

The Smart City Plan sets the long-term vision, direction and objectives for our future as a smart city.

The plan includes a framework for the Council to plan, design and accelerate the deployment of smart city technology for the benefit of the community and business.

View or download the Smart City Plan:

 Download: Smart City Plan

Annual progress updates

The Council has completed a number of projects that align with actions in the Smart City Plan.

Smart City Framework

To help realise our smart city vision the Smart City Plan is guided by the following five core principles.

These principles will shape smart city thinking and action, ensure community focus, and allow us to adapt to new opportunities.

Innovation The Council welcomes innovation. We will: encourage new ideas and ways of doing things in our City experiment, test and trial new technologies and services build innovation capacity and confidence use innovation to ensure our City makes the most of new technologies, creating jobs and opportunities into the future.

Sustainability The Council is committed to sustainability. We will: mitigate and adapt to climate change conserve and protect our environment improve the management of our natural resources empower our community to advance sustainability deploy new technology, data and innovation to create a more sustainable and resilient City.

Education and Training The City will focus on smart city education and training. We will: increase the smart city capability and capacity of our citizens empower our community to take part in smart initiatives unlock community potential through co-design of services use education and training to enable our citizens to play a key role in the development of our Smart City.

Collaboration The Council embraces collaboration. We will: place our citizens at the centre of smart planning and development foster a culture of inclusivity and participation encourage all local stakeholders to participate in our smart city journey use collaboration, inclusivity and participation to ensure our smart city development remains aligned with local priorities in our City.

Security and Transparency The Council is committed to privacy and security. We will: use best practice to manage the risks inherent with smart technology and data collection use robust frameworks to ensure that only high-value data is collected by smart technology foster open and transparent conversation with our community use security and transparency to help our City to remain a safe and welcoming place.

More information

For all Smart City related enquiries, contact the Smart City Steering Group

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