The University of Wollongong (UOW) is a leader in applied infrastructure policy, planning and delivery.

The University’s SMART Infrastructure Facility is one of the largest research institutions in the world dedicated to helping governments and businesses better plan for the future.

SMART contributes to infrastructure planning in Australia through truly independent research coupled with deep academic rigour to ensure policy makers and industry receive high quality and timely advice on major projects.

The major research entity is committed to collaborating with industry to develop innovative solutions and technologies that deliver real impact. The Facility’s academic rigour is complemented by our industry experts, resulting in a compelling and productive intellectual partner for industry.

SMART’s work is augmented by collaborations with experts across the University’s faculties in infrastructure-related fields such as energy generation and storage, water sustainability, environmental engineering, spatial geotechnics and social planning.

When the $62 million SMART building opened in 2011 as Australia’s first multi-disciplinary applied infrastructure research and training facility, it represented a commitment by the Australian and NSW governments to apply a more scientific approach to infrastructure planning.

Since opening, SMART has built an international profile working with government agencies in Australia and around the world, and has developed a strong network of global collaborators.

SMART brings together experts from fields such as rail, infrastructure systems, transport, water, energy, economics and modelling and simulation and provides 30 state-of-the-art laboratories to facilitate this important research.

The facility provides specialist teaching laboratories for 200 postgraduate research students and over 5000 undergraduate students per week.

The dedicated team of researchers tackle infrastructure issues from an integrated and multi-disciplinary perspective, with a focus on how infrastructure and social behaviour intersect to ensure more liveable cities and regions.

SMART’s Advisory Council is led by Dr Ian Watt AO and consists of some of Australia’s most influential infrastructure leaders from industry and government.

The Council advises and guides the SMART Infrastructure Facility in its vision to deliver integrated infrastructure planning solutions for Australia and internationally.

Global connectionsThe University of Wollongong’s infrastructure researchers at SMART and in the faculties are involved in key international partnerships and collaborations to address some of the big challenges in infrastructure. SMART also has an international network of honorary and visiting professors.

The Facility is a founding member of the International Symposium for Next Generation Infrastructure (ISNGI) with University College London, the University of Oxford, Delft University of Technology and Virginia Tech.

ISNGI is a unique global partnership aimed at fostering an international dialogue on the latest innovations in infrastructure research and policy and to mentor the next generation of experts who will have to design, implement or manage infrastructure systems around the world.

The symposia series has been hosted in Wollongong (2013, and 2016), Vienna, Austria (2014), Washington, USA (2015) and will be delivered in London in 2017.

In 2014, SMART partnered with Twitter and the Jakarta Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) to deliver PetaJakarta.org, a web-based platform used to harness the power of social media to gather, sort, and display information about flooding for Jakarta residents in real time.

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Peta Jakarta.org was operationally active from December 2014 to December 2016, with PetaJakarta 2.0 launched in December 2015. During this time, the project enabled Jakarta’s citizens to report the locations of flood events using the social media network Twitter, thereby contributing to a publicly accessible real-time map of flood conditions at PetaJakarta.org. This data was used by BPBD DKI Jakarta to cross-validate formal reports of flooding from traditional data sources, supporting the creation of information for flood assessment, response, and management in real-time.

In 2015, Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation commissioned SMART to investigate how social listening and engagement can be captured and used to boost innovation and customer service.

Collaborating with UOW’s Faculty of Business and using advanced geosocial intelligence techniques, researchers aim to enable MTR to develop a knowledge sharing platform that will capture, organise and act on information harvested from its internal communities of practice and public social networks.

SMART research groupsSMART is undertaking research that applies international experience, operational know-how, simulation, modelling and analysis.

The Facility contributes to infrastructure planning in Australia through truly independent research coupled with deep academic rigour to ensure policy makers and industry receive high quality and timely advice on major projects.

Research is grouped across four key areas, significantly contributing to our academic and commercial impact.

— SMART Data Analytics — Infrastructure Systems Engineering — Infrastructure Simulation and Modelling — Infrastructure Economics and Governance

SMART laboratoriesThe SMART Infrastructure Facility consists of 30 state-of-the-art research laboratories. Many of SMART’s laboratories and research facilities are also open to outside researchers from industry, academia and other national laboratories.

SMART provides a creative environment for collaborative research and innovative analyses to deliver cutting-edge solutions for more liveable cities and productive infrastructure.

— Rail Logistics Laboratory, including constraint modelling and education and training for rail professionals.

— Open Source Geospatial Laboratory, specialising in crowd-sourced mapping and information sharing and development of open source social media processing engines.

— Collaboration Laboratory, specialising in social engagement monitoring and multimedia user experience.

— IoT Research Hub Laboratory, for design and prototyping of smart sensors, cloud-based deployment and the development of LoRaWAN solutions.

SMART is a member of:

— The ICA-OSGeo Labs network – an international collaboration between the International Cartographic Association (ICA) and Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)

— The Things Network (TTN) – a global initiative originating in Amsterdam that’s crowdsourcing IoT networks in cities and regional areas around the world

New technologySMART is leading the way in establishing an Internet of Things (IoT) network in the Illawarra region to enable effective sharing and analysis of data.

Partnering with the Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC), the IoT Research Hub Laboratory is a dedicated space for the development of sensor and IoT technologies.

Work conducted by the laboratory includes the utilisation of cutting-edge cloud computing and sensor technology to capture essential data on rising water levels. This data has been used to inform emergency management authorities in monsoon-impacted regions.

The IoT Laboratory is a member of The Things Network, a community of technology enthusiasts and developers leading the way in developing a free and open Internet of Things data network.

Services — Commercial projects — Specialist opinion and expert witness — Simulation modelling — ‘What if?’ scenario testing — Data analytics — Technical and professional advice — Executive coaching and consultancy — Executive and professional development

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SMART Director Pascal Perez.