Urban Sensing
Tom van Arman
Measuring Street Tranformation

Throughout 2023, the City of Amsterdam conducted several experiments around car free zones and new slower streets inside the city. Environmental sensors are helping measure the improvements. See the live data here

Measuring Street Tranformation
Urban Sensing, Open Data
Tom van Arman
2 years of Busyness Data

There are fascinating stories behind each date and data set summarizing activities on the Marineterrein like the amount of people in the picnic area, swimmers in icy water and athletes in the rain.

2 years of Busyness Data
Tom van Arman
DarkStores Amsterdam

“Darkstores” are unmarked warehouses in residential areas. Consumers place their order with Flash Delivery startups who use fast ebikes to deliver your order in 10min create new urban dilemmas for cities

DarkStores Amsterdam
Future Mobility, Open Data, Urban Sensing
Tom van Arman
Public Eye

PublicEye is the world's first privacy by design crowd counting system that can accurately count people in public space. This open source AI was developed for UEFA Cup 2020 playoffs.

Public Eye
Urban Sensing, Open Data
Tom van Arman
Future Fitness Garden

Using a AI / Computer vision solution can count the number of people using Fitness Garden and detect moments people come within 1.5m of each other.

Future Fitness Garden

Amsterdam

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Smart Water Meter Lab

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Smart Water Meter Lab

Amsterdam is not a city that needs to worry about water, however, there are many cities around the world that are seeing much more extended dry periods.

Recreation Crowd Study

Recreation Crowd Study

We conducted an experiment to count pedestrians, sunbathers, swimmers and night- swimmers using two smart cameras that generate valuable data while respecting privacy.

Campus Amsterdam

Campus Amsterdam

In 2018, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences together with it’s regional innovation partners launched an ambitious initiative entitled Campus Amsterdam aiming to connect all campuses, labs and innovation districts in the Amsterdam metropolitan area. The initiative provides entrepreneurs, researchers and students from around the world with one entrance to the region's wealth of innovation, knowledge and education.

Reclaiming Space

Reclaiming Space

To help Boston develop a vision and plan to activate vacant City properties, Boston City Council and Wentworth Institute of Technology (and other local industry leaders) organized a high-impact event, to learn from the Dutch experience and develop a series of strategies that will identify and analyze underutilized or blighted properties in Boston’s Dorchester and Mattapan neighborhoods and develop short-term solutions to address the issue.