Urban Sensing
Tom van Arman
NDSM - Public Art Counter

The NDSM Werf is a cultural and creative district in Amsterdam North. In 2023 Tapp was commissioned to anonymously count the number of people visiting public art installation on the Y slope of the NDSM yard.

NDSM - Public Art Counter
Urban Sensing
Tom van Arman
GreenMile - Benchmarking

The Green Mile is transforming Amsterdam's Stadhouderskade into a sustainable, green space. Partnering with residents, businesses, and the municipality, this initiative uses sensors to enhance livability for people, plants, and animals.

GreenMile - Benchmarking
Tom van Arman
Urban Swimming Alert

The Marineterrein harbor is Amsterdam’s top public swimming area, attracting daily visitors. Like other urban wellness areas, users need to know if their environment is safe for swimming.

Urban Swimming Alert
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
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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.

Social Distance Detector

Social Distance Detector

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?

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.