The Beach Cleaning Map, a service provided by Infracontrol on behalf of the West Coast Foundation (Västkuststiftelsen), has been a great success as a simple tool to mark areas where cleaning is needed as well as where cleaning has already taken place along the Swedish west coast. It also makes it easier for the municipalities…
For just over a year, the Cascais municipality in Portugal has been using the City Points app to engage its residents. Whenever they do something to benefit the community, they are awarded points via the app. The points can be used to compete against others or trade for vouchers. For municipalities wishing to take their…
Illegal graffiti is a form of vandalism and a major concern in many municipalities. It pollutes the public space, creates insecurity and costs a lot of money and resources to clean up. One way to face this growing problem is to report all graffiti to the police immediately, recommends BRÅ, the Swedish crime prevention council.…
The new nationwide FixMyStreet service launched in April offers a simple, uniform way of reporting faults and shortcomings in an urban environment as it passes the report to the appropriate municipality no matter where in Sweden you happen to be. We have now integrated FixMyStreet with Infracontrol Online, which distributes information to the right person,…
Nacka is one of many municipalities that use Infracontrol Online to gain better control over its technical operations. It has used the service since 2009 to monitor traffic signals in the municipality. Last spring it extended the service in a pilot project to manage all cases in the highways and traffic area. The service simplifies…
Back in 2003 the City of Gothenburg Traffic & Public Transport Authority realized how important it is for an installation owner to have control of all technical systems. Infracontrol created a traffic light supervision system to which all of the cities control units could be connected regardless of make. This formed the basis for Infracontrol…
Region Gotland has been using Infracontrol Online since 2016 and for every year that passes it receives an increasing number of fault reports and observations from citizens. Infracontrol Online has helped them to improve the organization, structure and good order of their cases while also saving time and labor. They also raised the quality of…
With only 1,800 residents, Estremera, located around 40 miles southeast of Madrid, is one of the smallest and most remote members of the Infracontrol Community. During the fall, and as the first municipality in Spain, they decided to connect to Infracontrol Online to streamline work within their technical administration. Even though it’s a small community…
Just over 160 customers currently simplify their technical administration with Infracontrol Online. During 2020, about 500,000 fault reports, comments and technical alarms were processed by the service. While simplifying the handling of these cases, the data collected also provides useful information about the current status of infrastructure, service, and maintenance of a society. Above all,…
