Northern Melbourne Smart Cities Network: Project Introduction (Video 1/5)

Welcome to this series of videos were we will introduce to you the largest open IoT network in Victoria for enabling smart cities. It is delivered as part of the “Northern Melbourne Smart Cities Network” project funded and supported by the Smart Cities and Suburbs Program by the Australia Government, Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications. My names is Akram Al-Hourani, I am a Senior Lecturer at RMIT University and I will be delivering part of this video series to you. I hope you will enjoy it with us and find it interesting.

Project lead: Mr Hans Wolf (Chief Information Officer, City of Whittlesea)
Project management: Ms Joan Ying (IT Infrastructure Project Manager, Banyule City Council)

RMIT University (Technical Specifications, Architecture, QA, and RF Coverage design):
Dr Akram Hourani (Lead Chief Investigator, Senior Lecturer)
Prof Kandeepan Sithamparanathan (Chief Investigator, Professor)
Dr Karina Gomez (Chief Investigator, Senior Lecturer)
Dr Ke (Desmond) Wang (Chief Investigator, Senior Lecturer)
Mr Bassel Al Homssi (Research Officer, Network Design Lead)
Mr James Delany (Research Officer)
Dr Kagiso Magowe (Research Fellow)
Mr Neil Tom (Research Officer)
Mr Kosta Dakic (Research Officer)

La Trobe University (Data visualisation and analysis)
Mr Erik Van Vulpen (Deputy Director, Centre for Technology Infusion)
Prof Aniruddha Desai (Director, Centre for Technology Infusion)
Dr Shuo Ding (Team Leader Intelligent Transport System)

City of Whittlesea
Mr Troy Knowling (Strategic Transport & Engineering Officer)
Mr George Ibrahim (Head of Business Insights & Analytics)
Ms Kim Quach (Assistant Manager Information Services)

Banyule City Council
Mr James Comiskey (IT Infrastructure Engineer)

Moreland City Council
Mr Bernard Hoehmann (Business Solutions Architect)
Mr Peter Charalambous (Senior Infrastructure and Technology Projects)

Mitchell Shire Council
Mr Chris Stedman (Acting Information Technology Coordinator)
Ms Sarah Clark (Manager Information and Business Transformation)

Nillumbik Shire Council
Mr Paul Usatov (Senior Project Manager)

Minnovation Australia (Network and Sensor Development and Deployment)
Mr Simon Maselli (General Manager)
Mr Max Latter (Product Engineer)

For detailed information about the network, please see out paper:
B. A. Homssi, A. Al-Hourani, et al., "A Framework for the Design and Deployment of Large-Scale LPWAN Networks for Smart Cities Applications," in IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 53-59, March 2021, doi: 10.1109/IOTM.001.2000179.