Urban Sensing Projects
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
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.
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.
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
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’.
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.
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.
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.
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?