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CONCEPT: Urban infrastructure for energy, mobility, and digital services

STORY: An integrated underground platform for smart cities that brings together energy, mobility, and physical-digital applications. Core business use cases include wireless charging infrastructure for electric vehicles, energy storage, and connectivity for digital services. By combining various functions into a single unified infrastructure, a scalable model is created that helps cities grow more efficiently and sustainably.

Explored with: Cobernic Capital, Huawei, Schneider Electric, et al

Inland Waterway Infrastructure (Meuse)

CONCEPT: Modernization of inland waterway infrastructure with a focus on sustainability and efficiency

STORY: A forward-looking approach to the development of inland ports and waterways, and roadmap for affected waterfront business in line with European sustainability goals. The focus is on better logistics integration, optimization of transport flows, support for multimodal transport and modal shift (medium-long term plan to move road transport to rail and water) This increases the efficiency of freight flows and strengthens the role of inland waterway transport in sustainable logistics, while supporting and stimulating novel operational models.

Explored with: Arcadis, BAM, IBII, Provincie Limburg

Marlin Secure Content eXchange

CONCEPT: Secure platform for data exchange in logistics ecosystems

STORY: A digital environment where companies can share information securely and in a controlled manner within logistics chains addressing the needs such a dynamic industry demands for. The platform supports identification, access management, delegation, trust services and security protocols in compliance with European regulations such as eIDAS. By enabling reliable data exchange between every business parter within the entire logistics ecosystem, it improves collaboration between parties and increases efficiency in the supply chain.

Explored with: Nokia, Axway, Red Hat, iShare, itsme

Commerce 2.0+1

CONCEPT: Digital interfacing infrastructure for secure and adaptive cross-company collaboration

STORY: A platform enabling businesses to securely and efficiently exchange data, functions, services, and transactions with one another. Through extensible digital certificates and standardized modular interfaces, a reliable ecosystem is created in which cross-company business processes and workflows can run automatically. The focus is on simplifying collaboration between organizations, increasing transparency, and reducing administrative and operational costs by low-effort ramp-up and onboarding.

Explored with: In collaboration with SWIFT and Imagineering Technologies

Smart Lampposts

CONCEPT: Smart urban infrastructure with built-in connectivity and computing power

STORY: Existing street lighting is being transformed into multifunctional infrastructure with sensors, connectivity, and localized in-place computing power. These smart poles support applications such as traffic monitoring, safety, data collection, and local information processing (sensor-rich wireless edge computing). This creates a scalable and cost-effective network that helps cities operate more efficiently while also enabling new digital and physical-digital services.

Explored with: Corbenic Capital

A Smarter Grid

CONCEPT: Intelligent energy infrastructure that optimizes production, storage, and consumption

STORY: AAn integrated energy network that uses algorithmic control to manage electricity flows in real time, using mathematical models from measurement data and external sources. The system connects generation (such as solar energy), storage (batteries), and consumption (businesses and households) into a single intelligent coordination system. This leads to lower costs, reduced energy loss, and better utilization of renewable energy sources.

Explored with: SunChip/Weijland Technologies, TNO HESI-Lab, Wave Energy Solution AS, EWIV, Dynova

Cloud Access Recorder

CONCEPT: Digital “black box” for vehicles and infrastructure

STORY: A secure system that records and stores relevant vehicle and environmental data, including time, location, steering and breaking patterns and other safety-critical vehicle control OS parameters. The data can be used for post-incident analysis, to support emergency services, and to provide transparency to insurers. High-security multi-purpose situational awareness. By utilizing a distributed infrastructure, both security and availability of data are guaranteed.

Explored with: Corbenic Capital, fiVe, Xstream Technologies LLC

GO Foundation – Smart Rural

CONCEPT: Smart energy, data and computing networks for the agricultural sector

STORY: Solution designs focused on the electrification and digitization of agricultural activities.

Local networks of farms are connected via energy production (such as solar panels), shared infrastructure and learning communities. This increases energy efficiency, supports automation, creates new opportunities for data-driven agriculture and streamlines different modes of cooperation.

Explored with: SunChip BV, Pentascope/RedtobeBlue, Hanzehogeschool, Provincie Groningen,