Many Swedish municipalities make use of new, innovative IoT applications to better keep tabs on their infrastructure. Small, cheap, low power sensors and new communications networks make it possible to connect things that were previously expensive and awkward to monitor. For example, Jönköping has connected life saving devices and defibrillators to the new IoT network…
Internet of Things (IoT) opens up new possibilities in every area, from home electronics to healthcare. The same goes for the infrastructure that everyone in society is dependent on for transportation, work, social care and leisure. Cities need IoT to maintain better control, but to be able to take advantage of the new technology, there…
Many of the municipalities in Infracontrol Community make use of new, innovative IoT applications to surveill their infrastructure. Small, cheap, power-saving sensors and new communications networks make it possible to connect things that were previously expensive and complicated to monitor. Municipalities knows their own operations best, and when they let the needs decide where the…
More and more municipalities are discovering the possibilities the Internet of Things brings. The new technology allows the use of cheap, power-saving, wireless sensors for measuring e.g. water levels, air quality, or detecting faults in technical systems. But to really make a difference, they must be connected to a platform, which is well integrated into…
Infracontrol City Dashboard We recently launched our entirely new City Dashboard, which provides a quick overview of the municipal situation. Information about fault reports, alarms and readings are collected, processed and visualized in a simple and intuitive way. Sometimes people don’t need a whole lot of details, just a quick overview of the situation…
Following the launch of Infracontrol Online in Portugal, Spain and Denmark, it’s now Norway’s turn. During the fall, a collaboration was begun with Intelligent Solutions in Stavanger, which is in charge of developing the Infracontrol Community in the Norwegian market. Here too, there is a need to gain better control of society’s infrastructure and assure…
The Internet of Things has long been associated with the need for expensive power supplies and communications. But the new technology offered by low-power wide-area networks (LPWAN aka LoRa) enable the use of power-efficient sensors in entirely new applications. Many Infracontrol Community members, among them Helsingborg and Norrköping, use the new technology to help them…
We recently concluded this year’s user survey, which gathered the thoughts and opinions of Infracontrol Online users. The survey was opened from June through August and we received many good, useful responses. The results show that we have many satisfied users, which was good to hear, but just as important are the observations about things…
Mariestad is the 100th municipality that has chosen to join Infracontrol! Like most of the other municipalities that have joined, the town will be using the service to simplify and assure the quality of observations processing and fault reporting, and thus improve its services to residents. It’s above all simplicity and the combination of case…
Norrköping is one of the municipalities that use Infracontrol Online to streamline its technical administration. The municipality already has a number of technical installations connected to the cloud service, and now it has also connected around 130 ticket machines. By detecting faults and sending information automatically to maintenance personnel, they can easily speed up and…