Urban sense
Empowering cities through combined data
No borders, shared data
Creating:
- THE Urban Data Platform
- From cities, for cities
- Smart City Solutions
- Easily accessible data for everyone
A combined data platform for cities
Urban Sense is an innovative consortium between Cegeka and Sirus. The data platform for cities and municipalities is truly built to unlock the value of all possible types of data and helps to create the Smart Cities of the future. The platform offers a variety of applications: from analytical and visualization tools, data science and AI to developing applications and services. Knowledge and cost sharing are central elements to the platform. Urban Sense onboards business cases from different domains onto the platform, with a minimum of administrative actions and a wide target audience.
Cost-efficient and open data sharing
The Urban Sense data platform consists of several basic components which are necessary for a cost-efficient, but also high-performance operation. The architecture is constructed in such a way that your data can be flexibly connected, shared or separated from each other, with the necessary attention to security and privacy sensitivity. It is an open platform that allows to connect with other platforms and third-party solutions via open APIs.
The design of the platform is based on market standards such as the Flemish Open City architecture, OSLO and European open data standards. The technological backbone comes from the partner KPN and is called the KPN Data Services Hub (DSH). This technology was supplemented with specific components developed by Sirus. Do you want to know more on the technical aspect of the Urban Sense Platform? Don’t hesitate to contact us or have a look at the technical details of our cases in Bruges, Leuven and Roeselare.
Examples of data streams Urban Sense can tackle
Water
Waste management
Crowd management
Urban mobility
Energy
Environment
The goal of Urban Sense is that cities actively exchange knowledge about common issues that every city encounters. Themes such as urban mobility and traffic, energy, safety, sustainability and waste management, quality of life, local economy, citizen participation and crowd management, noise pollution and water management are on the minds of all cities and their inhabitants.
Have a look at our business cases and discover how Urban Sense already collected and analysed some of these data streams and which actions were taken.
About Cegeka
Cegeka is a family-owned European business that delivers craftsmanship based IT solutions while collaborating closely with our customers. We help businesses, organizations and governmental agencies create friction free and personalized experiences for their customers, for consumers and for citizens. It is our ambition to become the leading European orchestrator of digital business platforms and ecosystems in our central markets.
About Sirus
Meet Sirus, a young and dynamic IT company from Merelbeke with a strong focus on software consultancy, software development and software architecture. Our expertise lies in developing the architecture for your IoT or Smart City solutions and in Big Data Projects. Sirus has a proven track record in Microsoft solutions, which enables us to support companies in the short or long term by seconding engineers for our customer’s .NET, IoT, data and Microsoft 365 challenges.
A Cegeka Sirus Consortium
The advantages of a data platform for your city
A bespoke and relevant data approach
Cities generate tons of structured and unstructured data each day. The diversity of this data makes it very complex to acquire the necessary insights to support decisive policy making. In order to handle this data more efficiently, Urban Sense is therefore applying a pragmatic approach.
First, we figure out which data is relevant, where and how to connect this data and how to present or visualize it. We make sure this data is safely connected, onboarded and enriched with contextual data. Lastly, we make the data interoperable via our Context Broker.
This pragmatic and clear approach ensures that we fully help cities and reassure them that they have sight on all of their data to use it in an efficient manner. Furthermore, cities are always completely aware of the setup-, user-, and maintenance costs of the platform. Our project managers, data experts and service desk are always ready to assist with any questions.
An open and flexible platform for your cities needs
As a city or municipality, you want to involve your local partners as part of your digitization strategy. Thanks to our open ecosystem, that is perfectly possible. Do your software developers want to use certain data to create services for your citizens or do they want to automate processes? Give them access to your shared data and work together on your policy objectives.