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Passport Control taking off at Schiphol Airport
The Royal Dutch Marechaussee wants to adjust staffing for border control at Amsterdam airport, based on actual numbers of passengers approaching the several checkpoints. They are now experimenting with a tool which gives them realtime information of arriving...
Building and Dwelling, Ethics for the City
I hope we are not offending any architects or City planners by admitting we never heard of Richard Sennet before? But his latest book 'Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City' is an eye-opener and articulating why and how buzzwords like IoT, Smart City and...
Infoworld Best Open Source Tools 2017
A bigger deal in Europe than the United States, OpenRemote is used to create smart buildings and cities that provide greater energy efficiency and safety. You can buy smart lighting, locks, camera's, climate sensors, but if you want to make all the stuff work...
Smart DC Residential building
At Strijp-S in Eindhoven they are realizing Blok 61, a special apartment complex with optimal living comfort and convenience for the residents. The intelligent and virtually energy-neutral lofts are full of smart technology. VolkerWessels iCity works together with the...
TNO Study on Risk driven border control
Risk management at borders, is a high priority topic, which involves many parties in the security domain. Organizations such as the Judicial Service Establishments, Customs and the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee use principles of risk management in several areas in...
OpenRemote Wins Safety Innovation Competition
How do you convert larger, unstructured and changing data into intelligent data visualization? That was the theme of the Safety Innovation Competition (VIC) 2016, which today was won by OpenRemote with an innovation for Dutch Military Police at Schiphol Airport. The...