”Your sneak preview of the future” is the slogan of Innovation Origins, and that’s just what we will highlight with our Start-up of the Week column. Over the past few days, five start-ups of the day...
Cars are still all over the place. And we spend way too much time in traffic jams. For years we have been hearing that self-driving cars and buses are coming. But before that happens, those...
One might wonder why it doesn’t already exist: a land registry for materials. In 2017 Madaster, Utrecht region based, was founded: a company that creates ‘material passports’ for...
Rick Scholte didn’t follow instructions on the first day of an internship for his Master’s programme. He had been assigned to a lab which screened consumer products for noise, and his job was to...
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By Rob Adams and Boyd Cohen Rob Adams founded Six Fingers, a since 2006 in Eindhoven and since 2018 in Barcelona based innovation company. He is a writer of 4 books and interested in the how and...
“In the coming years, Dutch cities will redevelop with proven technology into totally different cityscapes with new forms of local energy and food production, lighting, water use. Closed loop...
Barcelona is one of the world’s leading examples of Smart City developments. And that is even more so during the annual Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC), from 12 to 15 November in that...
The municipality of Eindhoven is setting up a sensor register of all sensors in the city. The first part of the pilot is in full swing and will be extended this autumn. The main goal of the...
Eindhoven wants to become a smart society. But how does that work? What’s going on in a society like that? Are there any good examples to learn from? DataStudio Eindhoven explores the transition a...
Eindhoven wants to become a smart society. But how does that work? What’s going on in a society like that? Are there any good examples to learn from? DataStudio Eindhoven explores the transition a...
Eindhoven wants to become a smart society. But how does that work? What’s going on in a society like that? Are there any good examples to learn from? DataStudio Eindhoven explores the transition a...
Eindhoven wants to become a smart society. But how does that work? What’s going on in a society like that? Are there any good examples to learn from? DataStudio Eindhoven explores the transition a...
Eindhoven wants to become a smart society. But how is that going? What’s happening already? And what examples can we learn something from? The Datastudio is researching the transition that the city needs to make to become such a smart society. E52 features a new...
Three prototypes for City Games For the first time in history, an international conference that was exclusively dedicated to city games took place on Friday, 21st of April at Het Nieuwe Instituut in...
Eindhoven wants to become a smart society. But how does that work? What’s going on in a society like that? Are there any good examples to learn from? DataStudio Eindhoven explores the transition a city has to go through to actually become such a smart society. Each week, we...
Eindhoven wants to become a smart society. But how does that work? What’s going on in a society like that? Are there any good examples to learn from? DataStudio Eindhoven explores the transition a...
Last week we reported about Philips and Heijmans being chosen as the key partners to provide the urban lighting infrastructure required to bring Eindhoven’s vision of a smart and sustainable city to...
The easiest way to get an answer from Bill Peduto is via Twitter. The mayor of the American city of Pittsburgh has over 45,000 followers and he still manages his own account. At least this is...
‘Living Labs’, smart energy systems and a smart mobility platform. This Monday and Tuesday (19 & 20 September 2016) at the Global Forum in the Evoluon, we are bombarded with smart...
“As a city manager Rob van Gijzel recognized the impact of the digital transition for the whole society years ago already, and he has continued to promote this view.” For that reason,...
Imagine: you want to leave your home and a car drives by autonomously. A small one when you are alone and larger one if you want to take your whole family. The car ‘knows’ that you have...
NXP, Siemens, and Cohda Wireless are demonstrating cutting edge technology for smart mobility this week in Austin, Texas, during NXP’s FTF Technology Forum. NXP and Siemens are hosting test rides in...
Baltan Laboratories is looking for creative entrepreneurs who can shape their vision of urban renewal with a smart application. A price of up to 50,000 euros is waiting for the one with the best...
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