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🇳🇱 Eindhoven

Eindhoven's Data Code and Sensor Register

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In September 2015 Eindhoven adopted an eight-rule "data code" declaring data collected in public space public property, plus a Smart Society IoT Charter on open standards and privacy. A 2018 pilot let anyone register a public sensor on an interactive map, but it stayed voluntary — a year on, no institution or company had completed one.

Live 📅 since 2015
Outcome📉 Scaled back
Evidence🔬 Peer-reviewed
what does this mean?The strongest source behind this entry is an independent peer-reviewed or academic study. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run byMunicipality of Eindhoven, with Het Kadaster (Dutch land registry) on the sensor register.
Scale🏙️ City-wide
FundingPublic budget of the municipality of Eindhoven, with Het Kadaster (Dutch land registry) and the Ministry of the Interior for the national follow-on project.

📊 Impact

A year after the 2018 Stratumseind pilot, no public institution, living lab or private company had completed the voluntary sensor registration. An inventory in Utrecht in 2019 found that city managing more than 5,500 sensors in public space without a clear record of where they stood. The national successor, SensRNet, states that active development is paused and its environments are no longer available.

🎓 Lesson

Eindhoven wrote the rule and left out the duty. Registration was voluntary, so a year after the pilot not one institution, living lab or company had completed one. The question that produced the register in the first place — if a resident asks about the data being collected on them, who can answer? — had no answer in 2018, and a voluntary map did not supply one. The problem then moved up a level instead of being solved: the national successor now states that active development is paused and its environments are no longer available.

🏛️ GovernancePrivacy & personal dataOpen dataSensors & IoT

Sources

↗ Eindhoven Open Data Principes (gemeente Eindhoven, official dataset)Updated 14 March 2024The eight-rule data code; rule 1: data in public space is public property.
↗ Eindhoven Smart Society IoT Charter (gemeente Eindhoven, official dataset)Updated 18 October 2017Seven principles: privacy first, open data/interfaces, open standards, modularity, security, social responsibility.
↗ Het Nieuwe Instituut, analysis of the data code (independent)Confirms Sept. 2015 date and rule text; critiques undefined anonymization standard.
↗ Innovation Origins (IO), sensor register pilot launch (trade press, 2018-08-10)Published 10 August 2018Pilot with Kadaster started on Stratumseind, voluntary registration, aimed at citywide rollout.
↗ Figueiredo & Agyin, 'Hidden in Plain Sight: Toward a Smart Future in Eindhoven', Architecture_MPS / Taylor & Francis, 2019Published 2 September 2019 archived copyPeer-reviewed: a year after the pilot, no public institution, living lab or private company had completed the voluntary sensor registration. Taylor & Francis blocks direct fetching; the sentence was confirmed through a search pass against the publisher's own page.
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↗ Gebiedsontwikkeling.nu, history of the sensor register (trade press)Published 20 August 2018Pilot worked technically but was 'not affordable for a municipality' alone; nobody could answer residents' questions about their own data.
↗ Publiek Denken #43 (VNG-affiliated trade publication, 2023), the national sensor registerPublished 2023Carries the Utrecht figure: an inventory in 2019 showed the municipality managing more than 5,500 sensors in public space, with no clear record of where they stood or how they were registered. Also reports the national successor still at proof-of-concept in 2023, stalled on funding and governance.
↗ SensRNet documentation, Kadaster Labs (official, national successor project)States, in Dutch, that active development is paused and that the production, demo and test environments are no longer available.

📅 How old is the evidence?

Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: since 2015. 4 of 8 sources carry a publication date, from 10 August 2018 to 2023.

When the sources were published

  1. Innovation Origins (IO+) · pressInnovation Origins (IO), sensor register pilot launch (trade press, 2018-08-10)
  2. Gebiedsontwikkeling.nu · pressGebiedsontwikkeling.nu, history of the sensor register (trade press)
  3. Taylor & Francis · researchFigueiredo & Agyin, 'Hidden in Plain Sight: Toward a Smart Future in Eindhoven', Architecture_MPS / Taylor & Francis, 2019
  4. Publiek Denken · pressPubliek Denken #43 (VNG-affiliated trade publication, 2023), the national sensor register

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Evidence Passport · public beta 7 addressable claims, 8 source dossiers, one permanent baseline. The passport is unreviewed — an AI-assisted structural migration, not a human or expert endorsement. Every revision keeps a permanent copy under revision history.

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Claim 1 clm-a441edac64d724e7 quantitative
In September 2015 Eindhoven adopted an eight-rule "data code" declaring data collected in public space public property
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The independent analysis dates the code to September 2015 and quotes its first rule, that data in public space belong to everyone and are public property; the municipal dataset publishes the code itself.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Het Nieuwe Instituut, analysis of the data code (independent)
  2. Eindhoven Open Data Principes (gemeente Eindhoven, official dataset)
Claim 2 clm-9b6c0701a796e320 descriptive
plus a Smart Society IoT Charter on open standards and privacy
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The charter's own text opens with privacy first and lists embracing open standards among its principles.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Eindhoven Smart Society IoT Charter (gemeente Eindhoven, official dataset)
Claim 3 clm-aca14e4a12274d4f quantitative
A 2018 pilot let anyone register a public sensor on an interactive map, but it stayed voluntary
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The launch report describes the register as a Kadaster collaboration limited to Stratumseind at that stage, open to anyone wanting to look up what sensors are in the city and who owns them.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Innovation Origins (IO), sensor register pilot launch (trade press, 2018-08-10)
Claim 4 clm-b99e880fe31274e6 quantitative
A year after the 2018 Stratumseind pilot, no public institution, living lab or private company had completed the voluntary sensor registration
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The peer-reviewed study of Eindhoven's smart-city instruments records that a year into the voluntary scheme, nobody had completed a registration.
Caveat
The publisher blocks automated retrieval; the sentence was confirmed through a search pass against its own page rather than read directly.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Figueiredo & Agyin, 'Hidden in Plain Sight: Toward a Smart Future in Eindhoven', Architecture_MPS / Taylor & Francis, 2019
Claim 5 clm-485e579c75699226 quantitative
An inventory in Utrecht in 2019 found that city managing more than 5,500 sensors in public space without a clear record of where they stood
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The trade publication quotes Utrecht's digital innovation adviser: a 2019 inventory showed the municipality managing over 5,500 sensors in public space, but where they stood and how they were registered was not clear.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Publiek Denken #43 (VNG-affiliated trade publication, 2023), the national sensor register
Claim 6 clm-c1d3219265692e39 descriptive
The national successor, SensRNet, states that active development is paused and its environments are no longer available
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The project's own documentation says active development is paused and that its environments are no longer available.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. SensRNet documentation, Kadaster Labs (official, national successor project)
Claim 7 clm-a5167397b0ddc83b quantitative
The question that produced the register in the first place — if a resident asks about the data being collected on them, who can answer? — had no answer in 2018
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The 2018 account quotes the municipality asking exactly that question and answering it: nobody.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Gebiedsontwikkeling.nu, history of the sensor register (trade press)
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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Municipality of Eindhoven, with Het Kadaster (Dutch land registry) on the sensor register.
Actor types
city-government
Funding model
public
Funding description
Public budget of the municipality of Eindhoven, with Het Kadaster (Dutch land registry) and the Ministry of the Interior for the national follow-on project.
Cost
Not recorded
Ownership
Not recorded
Decision rights
Not recorded
Exit conditions
Not recorded

8 source dossiers

Eindhoven Open Data Principes (gemeente Eindhoven, official dataset) data.overheid.nl · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-97c51edf9f47f18a
Publisher
Name not classified · data.overheid.nl
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
2024-03-14
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-10
Dossier created
2026-08-26
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

The eight-rule data code; rule 1: data in public space is public property.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Eindhoven Smart Society IoT Charter (gemeente Eindhoven, official dataset) data.eindhoven.nl · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-d056c85591b8d505
Publisher
Name not classified · data.eindhoven.nl
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
2017-10-18
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-10
Dossier created
2026-08-26
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Seven principles: privacy first, open data/interfaces, open standards, modularity, security, social responsibility.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Het Nieuwe Instituut, analysis of the data code (independent) nieuweinstituut.nl · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-54729d0f4dec8d0b
Publisher
Name not classified · nieuweinstituut.nl
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-10
Dossier created
2026-08-26
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Confirms Sept. 2015 date and rule text; critiques undefined anonymization standard.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Innovation Origins (IO), sensor register pilot launch (trade press, 2018-08-10) ioplus.nl · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-b5884530154d22b3
Publisher
Name not classified · ioplus.nl
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2018-08-10
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-10
Dossier created
2026-08-26
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Pilot with Kadaster started on Stratumseind, voluntary registration, aimed at citywide rollout.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Figueiredo & Agyin, 'Hidden in Plain Sight: Toward a Smart Future in Eindhoven', Architecture_MPS / Taylor & Francis, 2019 tandfonline.com · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-6e202c05617a46ad
Publisher
Name not classified · tandfonline.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2019-09-02
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-10
Dossier created
2026-08-26
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
Open archived copy ↗ · 2024-06-07
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Peer-reviewed: a year after the pilot, no public institution, living lab or private company had completed the voluntary sensor registration. Taylor & Francis blocks direct fetching; the sentence was confirmed through a search pass against the publisher's own page.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Gebiedsontwikkeling.nu, history of the sensor register (trade press) gebiedsontwikkeling.nu · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-eaf972b2d170e927
Publisher
Name not classified · gebiedsontwikkeling.nu
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2018-08-20
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-10
Dossier created
2026-08-26
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Pilot worked technically but was 'not affordable for a municipality' alone; nobody could answer residents' questions about their own data.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Publiek Denken #43 (VNG-affiliated trade publication, 2023), the national sensor register specials.publiekdenken.nl · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-c86b041b75735400
Publisher
Name not classified · specials.publiekdenken.nl
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-10
Dossier created
2026-08-26
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Carries the Utrecht figure: an inventory in 2019 showed the municipality managing more than 5,500 sensors in public space, with no clear record of where they stood or how they were registered. Also reports the national successor still at proof-of-concept in 2023, stalled on funding and governance.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
SensRNet documentation, Kadaster Labs (official, national successor project) kadaster-labs.github.io · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-1be26da1fee73331
Publisher
Name not classified · kadaster-labs.github.io
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-10
Dossier created
2026-08-26
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

States, in Dutch, that active development is paused and that the production, demo and test environments are no longer available.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Known limits of this passport
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Eindhoven's Data Code and Sensor Register” — Eindhoven, Netherlands. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/eindhoven-data-code-sensor-register/ (last verified 2026-08-10). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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