Special Reports

Work continues with national traffic management

Infracontrol has received a repeat order for the maintenance and development of a national support system for road traffic management. The system is used by traffic and operations managers to monitor and control traffic nationwide; with the aid of e.g. more than 2,000 predefined and quality-assured contingency plans, the powerful decision support system helps manage…

Work continues on national ITS platform

Infracontrol has received a repeat order for the development, extension and management of a national road traffic equipment system. The system is used to control, monitor and collect data from ITS installations nationwide such as variable speed signs, congestion alert systems and traffic detour systems. There are currently around 50 installations connected to the system…

Winners of the Golden Mobile!

Infracontrol was awarded the prestigious Golden Mobile in the category “Internet of Things – Platform of the Year”. The prize was awarded by the annual Swedish Mobile Awards on January 28 in Stockholm. Jury justification for the award: “Infracontrol – This is intelligent infrastructure, reborn – making everyday city life simpler and smarter for the…

Vellinge makes everyday life simpler

Now Vellinge has also connected to Infracontrol Online to improve its service to residents, companies and visitors. The service is a link between the Vellinge Direkt customer service, the technical unit and the municipality’s contractors. As such, it will provide a better overview and control over reported faults, observations and work orders and simplify the…

Varberg – surfing into the future

Varberg municipality is surfing its way into the future with help from Infracontrol Online. It aims to provide faster, better service through simplified management of fault reports leading to better dialogs with residents. They will also use the service to monitor technical systems in order to detect any disruptions in time. Two of the major…

Unique collaborative project tames the Mölndal River

The Mölndal River, which flows through Härryda, Mölndal and Gothenburg on its way toward the Göta River, doesn’t always stay within its banks. The SCCA, the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, together with the municipalities affected, has taken the initiative to a new control and monitoring system and a joint operations organization to help secure the…

Uddevalla engages their citizens with City Points!

Uddevallahem, the municipal housing company in Uddevalla, became the first organization in Sweden to use the City Points app to create involvement and participation in a pick’n run event for the benefit of a national charity event called Musikhjälpen. For a week, 21 school classes collected points with the help of the app when they…

Travel time info helps ease traffic

The Swedish Transport Administration now shows travel times on sections of the highway affected by the construction of the Stockholm Bypass. The aim is to provide road users with better abilities to plan their trips as the traffic situation changes. Stockholm has an extensive traffic information system that uses 50 variable messaging signs. In addition…

Tramway switches in Oslo get connected

It was back in 1999 that Infracontrol delivered the first solution for the control and supervision of tramway switches in Oslo. The solution has since been used to modernize a large number of switch controls in the city. Now that the city is upgrading its hardware, it wants to improve monitoring by connecting the installations…