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Living Labs for Security Innovations

The Netherlands has many living labs for different application domains. The Hague Security Delta Foundation made an inventory of eye-catching labs for security. As part of the 'City Deal Urban Security' several living labs were developed to enhance innovation and learning. Other initiatives resulted in even more testing grounds for security innovations. Aim of these labs is to create, validate and demonstrate innovations in the area of urban and digital security in co-creation with businesses, knowledge institutions and governments.

Do you want to participate in one of the living labs? More information on their goals, way of working and innovations can be found on the pages below. Most are open for new partners, contact the person listed on the living lab page if you are interested.

Stratumseind

Living Lab International Zone

Burglary-Free Neighbourhood

IoT Forensic Lab

Space53

Living Lab Scheveningen

Living Lab on the North Sea

Alarm, Service and Surveillance Centre

Living Lab Johan Cruijff ArenA

Security Field Lab

Fifteen thousand people between the ages of fourteen to thirty visit Stratumseind, Eindhoven's most famous pub street, every weekend. This results in eight hundred security incidents on an annual basis, in a street that’s just 300 metres long. An ideal location to serve as a living lab for innovative safety measures. Nowhere else are so many test subjects present every week. Police, pub owners, municipality and entrepreneurs work together to improve the atmosphere at Stratumseind, which benefits...

Living Lab International Zone

The ‘international zone’, a unique area where several international organisations have established themselves, is located in the heart of The Hague. Unlike other cities in the world, this area is part of the city, and the organisations are located close to each other. It is an area where people live, work, shop and recreate. This requires innovative safety solutions. As a city of peace, justice and security, The Hague welcomes international organisations that strengthen this position. The intern...

Burglary-Free Neighbourhood

5.7 burglaries take place every hour. The Ministry of Justice & Security, municipalities, the Public Prosecutor's Office and the police want to reduce this burglary rate through the national programme Burglary-Free Neighbourhood. A key tool for this is a field lab in the neighbourhood itself. The burglary-free neighbourhood programme stems from the government's policy to reduce the number of burglaries. In collaboration with various municipalities in the Netherlands, field labs are being set up...

IoT Forensic Lab

Technology is constantly evolving. New technologies are invented and existing technologies are renewed. They are used and embedded in society ever faster. The safety and investigation aspects, however, need more time. The Lectorate Digital Forensics & E-discovery of the Leiden University of Applied Sciences therefore conducts applied research in this area in the IoT Forensic Lab, together with security services and industry. Smart cities, smart buildings; everything becomes smart and interconnec...

We're on the eve of major changes. Robots that can fly, drive, crawl and dig make their appearance. The Netherlands has the capacity and entrepreneurial spirit to lead the development of technology for unmanned systems. Space53 fully facilitates this innovation process and provides everything that this requires. Unmanned systems, like drones, have great potential. They can quickly and efficiently inspect bridges, viaducts, dykes and waterways much more frequently than people can. They also facil...

Living Lab Scheveningen

Cities are constantly confronted with new technologies. Technologies that can make the city smarter. However, these technologies don’t usually improve the appeal of the city. The Municipality of The Hague is experimenting in the Living Lab Scheveningen with innovative ‘smart city hubs’, where everything is neatly tucked away in the street furniture. The municipality is also testing the effect of this smart city infrastructure on municipal processes and investigating how the business community ca...

Living Lab on the North Sea

Connecting all sorts of (IoT) sensors and smart systems to collect data is now common practice. On land, that is. The North Sea is an unexplored territory. It is scarcely possible to collect or send data to the mainland for storage and analysis. Although water sports, safety, sustainability and the economy would greatly benefit. A 10 by 10 nautical mile living lab will bring the much-needed change. The origin of this living lab lies with the Sailing Innovation Centre and TU Delft. They have the...

Alarm, Service and Surveillance Centre

Alarm, Service and Surveillance Central (ASTC) is the living lab for operational products and services for control rooms and control centres. One of the characteristics of these control centres is that they take over and control systems, buildings and homes remotely. Products and services in this domain are no longer isolated. They are part of a complex world in which everything is interconnected and connected. Because of this complexity, it is important that innovations are properly tested and...

Living Lab Johan Cruijff ArenA

The Johan Cruijff ArenA is busy preparing for UEFA EURO 2020. To ensure a safe situation during the tournament, various additional safety measures are taken, such as an extra safety ring. Since the ArenA area is densely built, the City of Amsterdam, the ArenA and the police are working to minimise the impact on local residents and the people who work there. The Living Lab is therefore developing smart innovations that contribute to the liveability of the city, before and after UEFA EURO 2020. Th...

Security Field Lab

The Security Field Lab aims to increase liveability and security in places where social, physical and digital security problems converge. New and existing technologies and theories are combined in practice into new applications. To this end, they work closely with intermediate and higher vocational schools in the region. Business park Zichtenburg, Kerketuinen en Dekkershoek (ZKD) in The Hague is an example of such an area. This makes the ZKD extremely suitable as a living lab; a learning and exp...