Smart Cities

AI-powered monitoring for safer, smarter communities

Smart cities face growing challenges in maintaining public safety, managing increasing traffic congestion, protecting critical infrastructure, responding rapidly to incidents, and monitoring large public spaces with limited resources. Broadsecure addresses these challenges by transforming existing camera networks into an intelligent,  

AI-driven surveillance platform that delivers real-time detection of people, vehicles, and objects, identifies suspicious or abnormal behaviour, analyses pedestrian and traffic movement patterns, and generates instant alerts for operators. With edge AI processing, cloud-based analytics, and seamless integration with existing IP cameras, Broadsecure enables councils and city operators to improve situational awareness, optimise city operations, enhance emergency response, and make faster, data-driven decisions while reducing bandwidth usage and maintaining strong data privacy. 

Public Safety

Smart cities face increasing public safety challenges, including rising population density, large public gatherings, traffic incidents, anti-social behaviour, crime, and the need to respond rapidly to emergencies with limited resources. Broadsecure leverages AI-powered video analytics to provide real-time detection, behavioural analysis, and instant alerts, enabling city operators and emergency services to proactively identify threats, improve situational awareness, and enhance community safety across public spaces. 

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Crowd density and crowd surge monitoring

Identify overcrowding in public spaces, panic movement, or unsafe crowd build-up during events or transport peaks

 

Fight / assault detection

Monitor and detect physical altercations in parks, train stations, transport hubs, malls, and nightlife areas, allowing security and response teams to promptly intervene.

 

Weapon-risk behaviour detection

Flag threatening behaviour or visible weapon–like objects for rapid escalation

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Abandoned object detection

Detect unattended bags, trolleys, bins, or suspicious items in public spaces

 

Intrusion / restricted-area breach

Detect after hour or suspicious entry into closed parks, rooftops, rail corridors, reservoirs, construction zones, or service compounds

 

Loitering in high-risk zones

Detect prolonged presence near schools, substations, depots, playgrounds, or restricted facilities

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Person-down / welfare checks

Identify people lying motionless or appearing distressed in streets, parks, toilets, and transport hubs

 

Slip, trip, and fall detection

Detect people falling in public spaces, stations, footpaths, and civic areas

Did you know?

Australia recorded

1297

road deaths in 2024

Speeding contributed to

134

road deaths in 2025 in Australia

Pedestrian fatalities in Australia increased by

11.5%

in 2024

Approximately

1.19

million people die on the world's roads every year

Road Safety

Smart cities face growing road safety challenges, including increasing traffic congestion, speeding, distracted driving, pedestrian and cyclist safety, intersection collisions, and the need to respond quickly to accidents while maintaining efficient traffic flow. Broadsecure uses AI-powered video analytics to monitor road networks in real time, detect unsafe driving behaviours and traffic incidents, identify hazards, and deliver instant alerts, enabling traffic operators and emergency services to improve road safety, reduce response times, and optimise transport operations. 

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Cyclist and micromobility conflict detection

Identify unsafe interactions involving bike users, e-scooters, pedestrians, and cars

 

Footpath / bike lane obstruction detection

Detect parked vehicles, bins, debris, or works blocking accessible movement paths

 

Wrong-way movement detection

Detect vehicles, bikes, or scooters moving against moving traffic directions in one-way streets or shared paths

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Hoon driving detection

Detect burnouts, dangerous acceleration, repeated speeding, and risky vehicle behaviour in hotspot areas

 

Near-miss detection at intersections

Detect vehicle-vehicle, vehicle-cyclist, and vehicle-pedestrian close calls before serious crashes happen, and generate trend reports.

 

Pedestrian crossing compliance

Detect vehicles failing to stop at crossings and track risky crossing patterns

 

 

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School-zone safety monitoring

Detect unsafe drop-off behaviour, speeding, illegal parking, and pedestrian conflict around schools

 

Red-light and dangerous intersection behaviour

Detect red-light running, illegal turns, failure to give way, and risky crossing behaviour

Community Safety

Smart cities face increasing community safety challenges, including anti-social behaviour, vandalism, theft, illegal dumping, overcrowding in public spaces, and the need to monitor large urban environments with limited resources. Broadsecure uses AI-powered video analytics to detect suspicious activities, monitor crowd movement, identify potential threats, and deliver real-time alerts, enabling councils, law enforcement, and city operators to improve situational awareness, respond more quickly to incidents, and create safer, more resilient communities. 

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After-hours activity anomalies

Identify unusual movement patterns in public buildings, libraries, sports precincts, depots, and car parks 

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Antisocial behaviour detection

Detect disruptive, aggressive, or disorderly behaviour in public areas

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Public drinking / risky gathering escalation

Detect behaviours linked to escalating disorders in known hotspots

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Vandalism / graffiti-in-progress detection

Detect tagging, deliberate damage, destruction, or tampering with public assets

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Illegal dumping detection

Detect dumped waste, hard rubbish, and unauthorised disposal in public places

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Theft from public assets

Detect theft or tampering involving cables, solar lights, signage, EV chargers, public art, or irrigation assets 

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Arson / fire-start behaviour detection

Identify suspicious fire-lighting behaviour in bins, parks, bushland edges, or vacant sites

Enabling councils and city operators to proactively protect public assets, improve service delivery, and maintain safer, cleaner, and more sustainable communities.

Environment & Amenities Monitoring

Smart cities face ongoing challenges in monitoring public environments and amenities, including illegal dumping, vandalism, graffiti, overflowing bins, park and facility misuse, environmental hazards, and maintaining clean, safe public spaces with limited operational resources. Broadsecure leverages AI-powered video analytics to continuously monitor urban environments, detect anomalies and incidents in real time, and generate instant alerts, enabling councils and city operators to proactively protect public assets, improve service delivery, and maintain safer, cleaner, and more sustainable communities. 

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Graffiti and asset defacement monitoring

Detect newly defaced walls, signs, bus shelters, or public toilets

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Littering detection

Identify littering events in streets, parks, waterways, and beaches

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Overflowing bin detection

Detect full bins, overflow, or surrounding litter so crews can respond before complaints rise 

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Park and playground misuse

Detect unsafe or prohibited activity in playgrounds, sports courts, and recreation areas

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Tree fall / debris hazard detection

Detect fallen branches, storm debris, or obstructions on roads and paths

 

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Waterway pollution / dumping detection

Detect rubbish accumulation, illegal discharge, or contamination signs in drains, creeks, and canals

Traffic & Mobility

Smart cities face increasing traffic and mobility challenges, including congestion, inefficient traffic flow, public transport delays, growing demand for active transport, incidents that disrupt road networks, and the need to balance the movement of vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists. Broadsecure harnesses AI-powered video analytics to provide real-time traffic monitoring, incident detection, vehicle and pedestrian tracking, and intelligent alerts, enabling city operators to optimise traffic flow, reduce congestion, improve transport efficiency, and support safer, more connected urban mobility. 

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Bus-lane / transit-lane misuse

Detect unauthorised vehicles in priority lanes

 

Congestion hotspot detection

Detect developing congestion on roads such as car accidents and trigger operational responses

 

Queue spillback monitoring

Detect queues backing into intersections, crossings, or rail crossings. Develop traffic trends overtime to help councils reassess traffic flow management

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Double-parking and loading obstruction

Detect vehicles blocking lanes, tram corridors, bus lanes, or service access and trigger operational response teams

 

Illegal parking detection

Detect parking in no-stopping zones, bus zones, loading zones, clearways, and accessible bays

 

Kerbside activity monitoring

Monitor pick-up, delivery, rideshare, and loading behaviour to improve kerbside design

Public Infrastructure

Smart cities face increasing challenges in protecting public infrastructure, including vandalism, unauthorised access, theft, asset damage, and the need to monitor critical facilities and utilities across large geographic areas with limited resources. Broadsecure leverages AI-powered video analytics to provide continuous monitoring, detect suspicious activity in real time, and generate instant alerts, enabling councils and infrastructure operators to safeguard public assets, improve operational resilience, reduce maintenance costs, and respond rapidly to emerging threats. 

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Bus shelter / street furniture damage detection

Identify broken glass, damaged seating, vandalised furniture, or hazardous defects

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Fence / barrier breach detection

Detect damaged fencing or barriers around drainage, playgrounds, rail, and worksites

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Footpath trip-hazard detection

Detect cracks, uplift, surface failure, and accessibility hazards

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Pothole / road defect detection

Detect pavement deterioration before it becomes a safety issue

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Signage / traffic signal fault detection

Detect damaged signs, obscured signs, or malfunctioning signals

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Streetlight outage detection

Detect failed lighting in roads, laneways, parks, and public spaces

Deliver real-time incident detection, crowd monitoring, behavioural analysis, and instant alerts, enabling emergency services, event organisers, and city operators to respond faster, allocate resources more effectively, and improve the safety and resilience of communities.

Emergency Response

Smart cities face significant challenges in coordinating emergency response teams and managing public events, including rapidly detecting incidents, monitoring large crowds, maintaining situational awareness across multiple locations, coordinating first responders, and ensuring public safety during emergencies and major gatherings. Broadsecure harnesses AI-powered video analytics to deliver real-time incident detection, crowd monitoring, behavioural analysis, and instant alerts, enabling emergency services, event organisers, and city operators to respond faster, allocate resources more effectively, and improve the safety and resilience of communities. 

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Emergency vehicle path clearing support

Detect blocked routes or traffic conditions affecting emergency response

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Flooded road / path detection

Detect water over roads, underpasses, shared paths, and stormwater trouble points

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Smoke / fire detection in public spaces

Detect smoke, flame, or unusual heat signatures early

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Storm damage rapid assessment

Detect fallen trees, damaged poles, blocked drains, and debris after storms

Did you know?

Across Australia,

73%

of households own at least one pet, increasing the need for effective animal management in public spaces.

Every year,

5000+

dog attacks are reported to NSW councils.

Each year,

15000+

insurance claims are made in Australia following collisions with animals, with kangaroos accounting for most incidents.

More than

40%

of Australian drivers admit they ignore wildlife warning signs, increasing the risk of animal collisions.

Animal/Local Laws

Smart cities face ongoing challenges in enforcing local animal laws, including monitoring off-leash areas, responding to reports of stray or dangerous animals, ensuring pet owners comply with regulations, and managing animal-related incidents across large public spaces with limited ranger resources. Broadsecure uses AI-powered video analytics to monitor parks, streets, and shared public areas, detect animal-related events in real time, and provide instant alerts, enabling councils and local authorities to improve compliance, enhance community safety, and respond more efficiently to animal management issues. 

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Dog off-leash / prohibited-area monitoring

Detect breaches in animal-sensitive parks, playgrounds, or foreshore zones

 

Stray animal detection

Detect loose dogs, livestock, or wildlife entering roads or urban spaces

 

Wildlife road-risk detection

Detect kangaroos, livestock, or other animals near roads for warnings and mitigation

Public Health/Social Support

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Heat-stress crowd risk monitoring

Detect overcrowding or prolonged exposure in heat-prone public areas

 

Public toilet misuse / distress detection

Detect vandalism, long occupancy anomalies, or medical distress indicators

 

Rough sleeping / vulnerable person welfare detection

Identify repeated welfare-risk patterns so outreach teams can respond appropriately

Facilities/ Assets

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Depot safety monitoring

Detect unsafe vehicle-pedestrian interactions and restricted-area breaches in council depots

 

Solar / EV / smart asset tampering

Detect damage or tampering to EV chargers, batteries, smart poles, and solar assets

 

Waste facility misuse detection

Detect contamination, illegal access, dangerous disposal, or after-hours dumping at transfer stations

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Whether you’re exploring AI video analytics, looking to enhance your existing surveillance infrastructure or have a specific operational challenge in mind, we’d love to hear from you. Talk to the Broadsecure team about your environment, requirements and how intelligent video could help you see, understand and respond to what matters.

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