Westermo networking technology connects smart traffic systems throughout Amsterdam

In the 17th century, Captain Frans Banninck Cocq, the central figure in Rembrandt’s masterpiece `The Night Watch’ (housed at the Rijksmuseum) provided safety and security in Amsterdam. Today, the city relies on the Verkeer en Openbare Ruimte (department for traffic and public space) to ensure safe navigation through the busy streets.

In this article, you will learn how Eric Bish, Senior Systems and Management Engineer and Project Manager and Albert Scholten, System and Management Engineer, two key members of a team responsible for the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) systems for traffic control in Amsterdam are working with vision, action and modern technology to deal with one of the world's most challenging traffic management environments. 

Eric Bish: “Using Westermo technology we have built a robust and reliable networking solution that will last for a long time. The technology offers the functionality we need to modernise the network and enable us to make quick system upgrades over the lifecycle of the system. As far as we are aware, this is the most advanced network infrastructure in place in The Netherlands and to date the solution has performed flawlessly. We expect that within five years the industrial network will cover the whole of Amsterdam and its surrounding areas and this will almost completely rely on gigabit fiber links, with only a handful 4G connections still required.

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