Partners

Milestone Systems is a leading provider of open platform video management software; technology that helps the world see how to ensure safety, protect assets and increase business efficiency.

Milestone enables an open platform community that drives collaboration and innovation in the development and use of network video technology, with reliable and scalable solutions that are proven in more than 500,000 sites worldwide.

Founded in 1998, Milestone is a stand-alone company in the Canon Group.

Nearmap is a pioneering technology and innovation company whose cloud-based geospatial information services and aerial surveys provide certainty to an ever-changing world. We promise our customers the truth in the detail of the world we live in, offering instant access to high resolution aerial imagery, city-scale 3D datasets, and integrated geospatial tools. Nearmap frequently updates this high-volume data with industry-disrupting efficiency - made possible by our patented camera sensors and the most advanced imagery processing pipelines in the world. In March 2020, Fast Company named Nearmap one of the World's 10 Most Innovative Enterprise Companies."

oOh!media is a leading Out of Home media company that is enhancing public spaces through the creation of engaging environments that help advertisers, landlords, leaseholders, community organisations, local councils and governments reach large and diverse public audiences.

The company's extensive network of more than 37,000 digital and static asset locations includes roadsides, retail centres, airports, train stations, bus stops, office towers, cafes, bars and universities.

Listed on the ASX, oOh! employs around 800 people across Australia and New Zealand. The company invests heavily in technology, and is pioneering the use of sophisticated data techniques that enable clients to maximise their media spend through unrivalled and accurate audience targeting.

Serco is trusted by government and private sector clients to deliver intergrated facilities management services across key industries inclucing local government, defence, health and aged care, education, correction and venues and stadiums. 

Our experienced teams work in partnership with our clients to deliver exceptional servcie that maximizes the longevity of our assets and ensures a safe, clean and sustainable environment for the communities we serve, every hour of every day. 

In 2021, Serco acquired Facilities First Australia to grow our national footprint and capability. We have a dedicated facilities management workforce of more than 3,000 people living on metropolitan and regional areas of every state and territory across Australia, which means your community is our community. 

With local goivernment clients in every state, we offer unrivalled capability and quality through award-winning innovative and sustainanle solutions, bringing together a unique combination of experiences local teams, leading management professionals and world class systems. 

Aura Clean Energy commenced operations in 2014 with the goal of providing small and medium scale clean energy solutions to a range of industries and organisation looking to contribute to Australia's and the worlds net zero targets.

Aura develops renewable and clean energy solutions specific to our client's needs around small scale wind turbines, solar power and lighting, complementary renewable energy products, highly efficient LED lights, and emerging energy storage technologies to address the power energy needs of our clients.

Recognising a gap in the market for environmentally friendly power generation that could overcome the shortcomings of solar only solutions Aura has developed a hybrid energy approach.

Through extensive research and testing Aura has developed our highly efficient hybrid wind/solar solution that is unique in the marketplace. Our small scale vertical axis wind turbine technology has proven power generating efficiency in excess of 50% of the industry standard making it world leading technology.

Our hybrid power solutions offer security of supply for a range of applications such as:

• Street and pedestrian lighting
• Remote location power
• Mobile power

360 is the most powerful & time-saving tender evaluation software for high-probity procurement - especially for panel establishment & complex RFTs.
SaaS software that benefits tenders, evaluators, request managers, report writers, auditors, and executives.
100% Australian owned and operated by simplylogical.net in Ngunnawal Country - Canberra.

Arthur D Riley provides industry leading cloud based smart city solutions and is your one-stop shop for all parking related technologies including our inhouse developed TicketOr2 enforcement solution, PayMyPark Mobile payment application, Full Digital Permit module and numerous industry leading integrations including our Handheld based LPR solution. Additionally, we provide various Water and IoT solutions including smart water meters, meter reading software and irrigation management technologies to manage water allocations and agriculture needs.

Established in 2017, ThingsAt is an end user compute and collaboration provider specialising in device management and Device as a Service (DaaS). The company takes a vendor agnostic approach to deliver a great end user experience while optimising costs, productivity and ROI for clients. ThingsAt combine hardware, software and services into a monthly fee which provides flexibility to meet customers' evolving needs. ThingsAt helps companies establish a secure, collaborative and connected work environment for all of their staff, delivering all the elements of the device lifecycle from planning and deployment to management, collaboration and retirement. For more visit www.thingsat.com.

Rosterfy exists to connect communities to events and causes they are passionate about through volunteer and paid workforce management technology. Our proven end to end technology allows cities, events and organisations to recruit, register, screen, train, manage and report with ease, replacing manual processes with automations to better engage and retain your volunteers and paid staff. www.rosterfy.com

DCA Cities division is an innovative technology provider with a specialist focus on, on-street parking management incorporating:

• Smart mobility sensor technology
• Mobile way finding and payment applications
• Digital permit technology
• Infringement issuing technologies, management and processing
• Specialist parking officers and intelligent patrol planning methodology
• Smart mobility data analytics

Our approach to smart mobility and parking management is holistic, we partner with each of our clients to realise their vision, prioritising their objectives to overcome local challenges. DCA's multi-facet, integrated suite of technologies and services is designed to manage any aspect of smart mobility and parking operations and offers clients the flexibility to add and connect solutions at any time.

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Parcsafe provides ways for councils and operators to better understand their carparking. Providing the latest innovative solutions for the collection of instant carparking data, and reporting of this information, our systems allow local governments to make smarter decision making, to adapt strategies to suit parking demand - and help guide users to available car spaces faster.

Busting parking congestion, relieving complaints, making confident and rational decisions - this is The OpenSpace System! Now working in conjunction with the traffic data collection.

Cambium Networks delivers wireless communications that work for businesses, communities and cities worldwide. Millions of our radios are deployed to connect people, places and things with a unified wireless fabric that spans multiple standards and frequencies of fixed wireless and Wi-Fi, all managed centrally via the cloud. Our multi-gigabit wireless fabric offers a compelling value proposition over traditional fiber and alternative wireless solutions. We work with our Cambium certified ConnectedPartners to deliver purpose-built networks for service provider, enterprise, industrial, and government connectivity solutions in urban, suburban, and rural environments, with wireless that just works.

Felicity Smart Infrastructure Pty Ltd (Felicity) is an Australian company that Drives Safer Roads.

We do this through design, manufacture, and deployment of AI-powered Traffic Monitoring and Contemporary, Energy-saving LED Streetlights that Felicity supplies to Municipal Councils and Roads Authorities.

The HIVE+ Traffic Monitoring Service utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) to process CCTV images at the edge, providing reliable need-to-have data that drives better decisions across a range of Council functions.

The GYRO LED Streetlight replaces all possible standard or decorative luminaire types, regardless of mounting arrangement and incorporates IoT functionality that future-proofs a Council area.

Buy Australian - Buy Felicity!

VivaCity develops the world's most advanced AI-based transport and mobility behaviour analytics technology for cities and transport authorities. Since 2016, Over 100 cities across the UK, Europe, and Australia have chosen Vivacity to deploy close to 5000 of our industry-leading smart video sensors; providing access to anonymized, real-time and historic behaviour data on up to 32 different transport classes, and how it is impacted over time and by change. VivaCity informs policy and decision making to improve transport ecosystems and achieve strategic objectives for safety, congestion, modal shift, parking, and emissions.

From local planning of active travel to adaptive junction control across entire cities, VivaCity delivers quality data for smarter, safer, sustainable cities.

"Founded in 2016, we are on a mission to make zero emission fleet transitions faster, more cost-effective, simpler and lower risk for complex fleets. We service over 200 complex fleets across the Asia Pacific, Northern American and European markets

Evenergi helps our customers and partners to find clarity in an increasingly complex world, enabling them to transform fleets while maintaining the control required to plan and manage the most optimised outcome.

Everything we do aims to make this vital transition simpler, more cost effective and faster for our clients.

We help turn your zero emission transport aspirations into operational reality"

We're a highly experienced and qualified team of networking gurus who make it our business to support yours. Located in Sydney, we provide a suite of networking services and solutions with a dedicated support centre configured to deliver best practice networking, monitoring, and security. As a trusted partner with an enviable customer retention rate, we shape our solutions to meet our clients' needs - from designing a new network architecture from the ground up, to fully managed support services that keep you online. ICT Networks is on a range of state and federal government panels, and has extensive public sector experience.

EasyPark's Innovation and Smart City focus

EasyPark Group is a mule-cultural cross border organisation that has developed a global innovation identity. We have more than 350 permanent staff and 1,000 part time staff in 18 countries. We have more than 70 R&D and product development experts including innovation staff in Australia.

EasyPark offers world class Smart City parking solutions including Pay as You Go pay-by-phone solutions for gated and non-gated parking areas, in-car apps for finding and paying for parking, app based guide to park solutions, online digital permit solutions (including the ability to import and use existing permit information for parking permits) and electric vehicle charging stations.

EasyPark Find & Park navigation is considered the most innovative solution at its class that was deployed on large scale cities, including in Australia, without any physical infrastructure. The service aims at reducing city traffic congestion.

In addition to the range of dedicated EasyPark products, EasyPark has also integrated with multiple other 'Smart City' solution providers to ensure we can deliver fully integrated end to end smart parking solutions. Our range of innovative integrations includes parking guidance systems (bay sensors and bay cameras), parking enforcement systems (handheld enforcement issuance devices, fixed and mobile licence plate recognition enforcement), parking ticket machines (pay by plate, pay by space and ticket parking). In fact EasyPark would go so far as to say there is no other 'Smart City' solutions provider in Australia that can match our level of integration and our suite of product and service offering.

Benchmark Estimating Software is an Australian owned company and leader in developing and supporting enterprise software solutions for the broad construction industry. Founded in 1996, we use our wealth of experience across a number of industries to deliver world leading and user-friendly cost estimating software.

Trusted by over 5,500 users in more than 40 countries, our mission is to help organisations improve their cost estimating and seamlessly integrate it into the rest of its business processes.

SenSen is the world's leading enterprise Data Fusion solutions provider. Specializing in using Sensor AI to solve previously unsolved enterprise business problems. We provide the most accurate video and sensor analytic solutions for Intelligent Transportation, Security, Local Government, Law Enforcement and Gaming Markets.

TMA Technology has been servicing the Australian parking industry for over 15 years. We are a market leader, providing smart parking solutions, including access control equipment and parking guidance systems, to over 250 sites nationally. These include Council sites throughout NSW, VIC, QLD, TAS and WA as well as Sydney Olympic Park, Westmead Hospital, Perth Airport and several Westfield shopping centres. TMA's touchless, ticketless ZipBy solution offers the latest in Bluetooth and mobile App technology for both on-street and off-street parking. Sites include Department of Finance, City of Sydney and Georges River Council.

Our parking solutions include all on-street and off-street access equipment, parking guidance systems, pay and display machines and consumable requirements as well as maintenance and 24 x7 support services.

The Data Management Association (DAMA) Australia represents the Australian Chapters of DAMA International, the non-profit industry association dedicated to advancing the profession of data management. Our chapters in Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney provide a forum for members to exchange information, ideas and experiences.

DAMA Australia is dedicated to improving and promoting the field of Information Management.

For more info: https://www.dama.org.au

The Local Government News Roundup is produced and presented by Chris Eddy, a local government and media veteran of 40 years.

Featuring news and interviews from around the local government sector, the program is released twice-weekly and includes Victorian, interstate and international roundup segments.

Daily updates are regularly posted to the website between release days for the regular podcast.

The audience for the Roundup is ever growing, consistently hitting new download milestones, as listeners across Australia and overseas discover the program.

The Local Government News Roundup is brought to you by the Victorian Local Governance Association (VLGA)

ASCA is Australia’s only not-for profit peak body dedicated to advocating on behalf of governments for smart communities in Australia. ASCA works closely with our members across all levels of governments and industry to solve problems, enhance policy, capacity, confidence, and create innovative smart solutions, for their communities. Since starting over 10 years ago, ASCA has supported over 150 government bodies responsible for 12.6 million people and is committed to adding value to members as they expand their smart community strategies and initiatives.

More info here https://www.australiansmartcommunities.org.au/about-1

Council Magazine looks at the wide range of issues and projects in the local government space, with a focus on keeping our readers informed of the critical industry news, updates and changes that they need to be aware of.

Council has a strong focus on providing the industry with genuinely useful tools and information that can help readers make better, more informed decisions in their daily working lives.

Council informs an essential sector, and we are passionate about helping place-makers achieve the best community experiences and wellbeing that will make our cities, towns and suburbs the best places they can be.