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

Open Data

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Public Eye

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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.

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Future Fitness Garden

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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.

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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.

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BRIGHT Cow Hackathon

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BRIGHT Cow Hackathon

RTL & Bright invited local designers, business developers and engineers to participate in a unique event in the JaarBeurs 18-19 November 2017 to rapid prototype viable & sustainable solutions for dairy farmers across the Netherlands

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Smart City Safari App

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Smart City Safari App

Our build surrounding and digital worlds are colliding - so what is the future of architecture and urban planning in our hyper-digital era? The Smart City Safari app - reveals the many invisible layers of our city by helping you locate the many sensors in their natural habitat and how they are making smart cities like Amsterdam more responsive and resilient. Using AR (Augmented Reality) will show you technologies normally invisible to the public eye. With your own phone you’ll be able to locate the many data collecting sensors, transmitters, and many other technologies in and around you.

Safer Service

Safer Service

In 2014, the Chilean government assigned Tapp to explore how the local laborers could become more visible and thus more profitable. Two apps were developed to help laborers register their skills and projects, and another app for citizen to find, book and pay them.

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.