City of Connectivity

Smart Connectivity connects the community together through networks and information, to enable the flow of data in real time to share information and stories digitally.

Investment includes:

Smart poles installed in CBD, Beresfield and when upgrading local centres to improve amenity by:
- Access to real time environmental monitoring data to help determine our city’s environmental quality, such as soil moisture, air quality and pollution monitoring.
- Easy connection to power for street activations.
- Efficient street lighting.
Virtual Reality of our Art Gallery so that rare and fragile artworks can be made available via VR from our home.
Establishment of an Internet of Things (IoT) Sensor Lab with local industrial designers and technologists to create an integrated product that provides sensor access to the City Centre.
A City App to make information available such as What’s on, walking trials, information of facilities available in our parks and augmented reality experiences.
A Digital Library. Meet Pepper the dancing robot and see books come to life inside the Magic Box. Explore the five-metre digital Storywall to discover Newcastle’s heritage, history and top 10 things to do, or use the interactive tables to browse newspapers, magazines, games and storystomp collections.

City of Newcastle acknowledges that we operate on the grounds of the traditional country of the Awabakal and Worimi peoples.
We recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and continuing relationship with the land, and that they are the proud survivors of more than two hundred years of dispossession.
CN reiterates its commitment to address disadvantages and attain justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of this community.