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New Zealand

12 projects in 2 cities

🤖 AI-generated country overview of source-checked atlas entries — how this works

The atlas documents 12 projects across 2 cities in New Zealand, the earliest dating to 2008: 1 documented failure, 1 scaled back, 10 still running without a verdict. Every entry carries an evidence grade — the strongest here is independent (2 entries) — and links its sources.

The shape of New Zealand

Computed from the 12 entries below — a profile, not a score.

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Outcome ongoing 10scaled back 1failed 1

Evidence independent 2official 6media 4

Cities

All 12 projects

✔ Every published entry is checked against the public sources it cites before publication.

📡 🇳🇿 Wellington Wellington Digital Twin since 2022 · Live → 🚲 🇳🇿 Wellington SmartPark — CBD In-Ground Parking Sensor Network 2016–2024 · Completed → 🚲 🇳🇿 Auckland AT HOP Contactless Smartcard Ticketing since 2012 · Live → 🌱 🇳🇿 Auckland Safeswim: Auckland's Modelled Beach Water-Quality Forecasts and Overflow Alerts since 2017 · Live → 🚲 🇳🇿 Auckland Ports of Auckland's Abandoned Container-Terminal Automation 2016–2022 · Cancelled → 🚲 🇳🇿 Auckland Auckland's Red-Light Cameras: Owned by Auckland Transport, Enforced by Someone Else since 2008 · Live → 📡 🇳🇿 Auckland Watercare Smart Water Meters: Half-Hourly Readings and Two Billing Faults since 2022 · Live → ⚡ 🇳🇿 Auckland Vector: Auckland's Trust-Owned Power Network and the Smart Meters It Does Not Own since 2023 · Live → 🚲 🇳🇿 Auckland Auckland's Occupancy-Based On-Street Parking Prices since 2012 · Live → 📡 🇳🇿 Auckland Auckland Transport's Open Transit Feeds: GTFS Timetables and Real-Time Vehicle Data since 2014 · Live → 🚲 🇳🇿 Auckland Auckland Rail's ETCS Level 1 Train Protection: Fitted to the Commuter Trains, Not to Everything on the Tracks since 2014 · Live → 🌱 🇳🇿 Auckland Auckland Flood Viewer: Address-Level Flood Hazard Maps After the 2023 Floods since 2023 · Live →

Deeper reads

Where New Zealand appears in the atlas's own analysis.

🧯 2 entries in the failure atlas 🧾 Evidence file: AT HOP Contactless Smartcard Ticketing 🧾 Evidence file: Safeswim 🧾 Evidence file: Ports of Auckland's Abandoned Container-Terminal Automation ⚖️ Side by side: The in-ground parking sensor, and what replaced it

📎 Cite this country record

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Smart-city projects in New Zealand.” The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/countries/new-zealand/ (last verified 2026-10-15). Data: CC BY 4.0.

The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.