Sydney Suburb Enhances Livability with Traffic Analytics

The challenge before the city was to turn this massive dataset into information that could help it run more efficiently, handle an influx of commuters and keep the place liveable for residents — without compromising anyone’s privacy. To achieve this goal, the city has partnered with the Digital Living Lab of the University of Wollongong. Part of Wollongong’s SMART Infrastructure Facility, the DLL has developed what it calls the Versatile Intelligent Video Analytics platform. VIVA, for short, unlocks data so that owners of CCTV networks can access real-time, privacy-compliant data to make better informed decisions.