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Bendigo established the Smart City Bendigo Alliance to guide its technology work across seven strategic pillars that cover governance, connectivity, people, resources, financing, health and measurement.
The alliance supports projects that combine public infrastructure with everyday city operations rather than relying on large-scale commercial platforms common elsewhere.
IoT Network Built With Local Testing
The city runs a free IoT network that was checked for coverage by fitting mappers to garbage trucks to record signal strength and find gaps for future sensors.
Bendigo partnered with La Trobe University to place temperature sensors on the same network so residents receive real-time readings of local weather differences across neighbourhoods.
RMIT researchers created the Shadeways digital platform that uses satellite heat imagery to show cooler walking routes and guide decisions on where to plant street trees.
First Victorian Smart Water Station
Bendigo installed Victoria's first smart water station called MeetPat that connects to a LoRaWAN network and records water use, park activity patterns and maintenance needs while avoiding collection of personal data.
The Bendigo Things Network covers more than 80 percent of the city with MatchX gateways to support community data sharing on the same infrastructure.
These steps keep the focus on measurable local outcomes such as water management and pedestrian comfort instead of broad claims about future citywide transformation.
City staff continue to expand sensor placement based on the original truck-based mapping data to improve coverage where gaps remain.
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