Category: Sustainability

  • Smart Campus: Sustainable Waste Recycling Apps

    As part of our Smart Cities initiative, we have been collaborating with the Ecoversity initiative of the University of Adelaide. Though this collaboration, we are about to complete a very interesting pilot project aimed at educating students and staff about the sustainable waste recycling on campus. The project has developed a mobile Apps that provide…

  • Smart Campuses – Experimental Platforms for Smart Cities

    Smart Cities initiatives are gaining popularity in almost every corner of the World – increasing urbanisation and myriad of socio-economic challenges are forcing governments and public sector organisations to leverage Information Communication Technologies (ICT) for conceiving and materialising innovative solutions for socio-economic challenges under a broad umbrella of Smart Cities. Since Smart Cities initiatives present…

  • Smart Campus: Understanding Privacy Concerns of End Users

    Like Smart Cities initiatives, smart campus initiatives have also been gaining a significant attention of Universities aimed at bringing optimisation and efficiencies in the operations of Universities and contributing to the sustainability drives. Smart campuses basically utilises the similar (or same in many respects) infrastructures to provide innovative solutions to address socio-techincal challenges and improve…

  • Inaugural Congress on Smart Cities Initiative

    We are delighted to share that our inaugural conference on Smart Cities was hugely successful in term of the number of attendees and the fruitfulness of the discussions. The congress attracted delegates from the attendees of the Australian Software Engineering Conference, Industry, government, and academia. This congress was aimed at bringing the key stakeholders involved…

  • Brief on Software Engineering Research for Sustainable Systems

    Recently I gave a presentation on our research and development activities for supporting the sustainability aspects in engineering software intensive systems while leveraging cloud computing and global software engineering. Three key focus of our research are architectural solutions that promote sustainability aspects for cloud-based solutions, processes and practices for sustainable utilization of resources in global…