The Urban Genome Project

CSIRO’s Data 61 and Senscity have partnered to investigate what it truly means to be the world’s most liveable city. We will be deploying an array of specialized sensors to take real time measurements of our city’s “liveable” indicators. We’ll uncover key questions such as: • How do we detect thunderstorm asthma before it happens? • How do our cities react to climate change impacts, such as heat waves and flooding? Data will be uploaded to the City of Melbourne’s open source platform, and visualised by Data61 in an easy to use front-end visualisation system.

The data collected will help our city’s decision makers understand the health impacts from our urban air quality, discover how our city reacts to climate change and provide robust data to enable new research and innovation for universities, startups and businesses.

In an age of longevity, we want to ensure that the community is living their best and healthiest lives, which are inherently intertwined with the urban environment. Understanding how healthy our city is will allow us to understand how to better sustain our growing population, and how we can deliver on being “the most liveable city in the world".