This document discusses smart cities and sensor registration. It explains that sensors are becoming ubiquitous in cities and generating large amounts of data. This data can be used to improve city services and infrastructure if citizens understand what types of sensors exist, where they are located, and how the data is being used. The document proposes creating a sensor registration portal that provides transparency about sensors - what they sense, their location, who owns them, and how citizens can access any related data. This portal could help citizens, companies, governments, and researchers better understand the sensors in our environment and determine how sensor data can create smarter, happier cities.

1. Wil jij wonen in een
smart city?
All for a happy life
Jene van der Heide, Msc
Senior advisor strategy and policy
The Netherlands’ Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency
@Jenevanderheide

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Waarom woon je daar?
Waar woon jij?
Woon jij in een smart city?

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Woon jij in een smart city?
http://citiesinmotion.iese.edu/indicecim/?lang=en
Rankings:
https://easyparkgroup.com/smart-cities-index/
http://www.smartdatacity.org/slimste-binnenstad/
http://www.dataforcities.org/
https://www.atlasvoorgemeenten.nl/

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Sensing Analysis Act(uat)ing
Predicting
raw events
raw events
future events
meaningful
events
• Data creation • Controlling / alerting /
notification / routing of
objects and people
• Data usage

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A smart city
knows
about
where!
Everything that happens,
happens somewhere!

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‘Sensor walk’

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Data is the new language
Sensors are everywhere
A digital twin of the city is born
Direct interaction between people and the city

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Prime Minister Rutte receives the NL Smart City Strategy

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“A sensor is a device that detects and
responds to some type of input from the
physical environment. The specific input
could be light, heat, motion, moisture,
pressure, or any one of a great number of
other environmental phenomena. The
output is generally a signal that is converted
to human-readable display at the sensor
location or transmitted electronically over a
network for reading or further processing”
(source: techtarget).
Source: iso
Making sense for society
The next episode

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What we are working on
A. Sensor registration / sensor portal
B. Smart city information model
C. Sensor data platform

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Where are
the sensors?
What do they
sense and
how?
Who owns
the sensor?
Where can I
find the
sensor data?
Am I being
sensed right
now?
How many
sensors are
there?
Can I use
the sensor
data?
Who
maintains
the sensor?
Sensor registration Why?

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Information about ‘what is being sensed where and
by whom’
Accessible for everybody (companies, citizens and
government)
Public and easy to find.
Uniform, nationwide and trustworthy
Create awareness of what’s happening where
Sensor registration What?

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Sensor registration
• Fixed sensors
• Public space
• Formal and informal sensors
What?

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Citizens interest
• I want to know if I’m being sensed, by whom
and what happens with the data
• I want to know about the (development of) air
quality, sound levels, traffic density, ... in my
surroundings
• I want to move, how about the air quality,
sound levels and congestion in my (possible)
new neigbourhood?

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Companies interest
• I want to be transparant about the location of
my sensors and what they do
• I want to make use of sensor data but I don’t
want to invest in sensors myself
• I want to use sensor data to implement new
services and products

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Governments interest
• Sensors help building a better, safer,
healthier, accessible and sustainable city
• We make use of present sensors and prevent
using doube investments and measurements
• We are open to our users to show what is
being sensed where and by whom

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Knowledge institutions interest
• Do low-cost sensors add to the fine-grained picture of air
quality indicators? Can we trace an ‘air pollution cloud’
accumulating in certain places in the built environment?
• Can we combine these measurements with other
(modelling) information for informed citizens and
government?
• Does sense-making with citizens work? What is the
citizen-science contribution?
• If the concept works, does this open up opportunities for
bottom-up spatial/traffic/urban planning to further
improve quality of living and health?
• Reflective: (How) do roles of government and citizen
change?

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Bèta version with Smart City of Eindhoven
The city council of Eindhoven decided that
everyone who wants to place a sensor in public
space is obliged to ask permission and to
publish the sensor data as open data!
Sensor registration How?

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Socrates asked –
what’s the point in
sensor networks
and smart cities,
unless the people
building them and
protected by them
are happy?
Socrates asked –
what’s the point in
battleships and city
walls, unless the
people building them
and protected by
them are happy?