Urban Sensing Projects

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Measuring Street Tranformation
Urban Sensing
Measuring Street Tranformation
Urban Sensing

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

Urban Sensing
Shutter Cam
Urban Sensing
Shutter Cam
Urban Sensing

Similar to covers webcam covers the ShutterCam gives citizen control when they are being monitored. In the most recent deployment of The Shuttercam, Ajax and local residents can physically see when the cameras are recording or not.

Urban Sensing
2 years of Busyness Data
Urban Sensing, Open Data
2 years of Busyness Data
Urban Sensing, Open 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.

Urban Sensing, Open Data
Responsible Sensing Toolkit
Urban Sensing
Responsible Sensing Toolkit
Urban Sensing

Commissioned by the city of Amsterdam, this easy to use toolkit helps government innovators safely navigate the many decisions and dilemmas when deploying urban sensors

Urban Sensing
City AI
Urban Sensing
City AI
Urban Sensing

Data-technology and AI in the cityscape is outpacing plans from urban planners & architects. Countless cameras, sensors and algorithms register, analyze and control what we do, how we feel and even who we are. In the art-science installation AI INCUBATOR multi-media artist Vladimir Grafov evokes, in co-creation with architects/researchers Federica Cefis Colombo and Frank Suurenbroek, the advance of AI in the urban environment. The installation raises the question how to collaborate with this new ‘technological species’.

Urban Sensing
Public Eye
Future Mobility, Open Data, Urban Sensing
Public Eye
Future Mobility, Open Data, Urban Sensing

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.

Future Mobility, Open Data, Urban Sensing
Future Fitness Garden
Urban Sensing, Open Data
Future Fitness Garden
Urban Sensing, Open Data

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.

Urban Sensing, Open Data
Smart City Safari App
Open Data, Urban Sensing
Smart City Safari App
Open Data, Urban Sensing

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.

Open Data, Urban Sensing
Social Distance Detector
Urban Sensing
Social Distance Detector
Urban Sensing

As we bounce back and forth from social isolation to social distancing, we often forget what 6ft or 1.5 meters means in our social environment. What does 1,5m meters mean back at the office or co-working space?

Urban Sensing