Waste with a passport: the land registry of materials
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...
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Sound judgement: Sorama celebrates ten years of improving sound design, readies for scale-up
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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[BRAINPORT COLUMN] Time to rethink Smart Cities: From Tech Focus to a Happy State
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...
Jorritsma paints a bright Dutch future at Smart City Congress in Barcelona
“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...
Eindhoven to lead Dutch Smart City Mission to Barcelona
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 sensor register: more insight into data collected about you
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...
Smart Cities and the legibility of data (1)
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...
A Smart City is a Happy City
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...
Jorritsma receives the city vision of the city’s children
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...
MapLab: children in the smart society
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...
“Brabant companies must use big data in a better way
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...
Games for Cities – and for Woensel North
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...
Open Data in Eindhoven is ‘Liberated’
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...
Towards a Smart Society: From census to Street Cube
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...
Philips Lighting helps create the world’s first ‘crowdsourced smart city’
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...
Crowdsourcing a Smart City
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...
Smart Cities are already here
‘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...
Van Gijzel is the first “European Digital Leader”
“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,...
Eindhoven, Living Lab for the rest of the world
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...
A Glimpse at the Smart City of the Future – by NXP
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...
50,000 euros for the most inventive Smart City application
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...
