A “shield” against natural disasters in Attica

by Anna Beyer | Feb 22, 2024 | News

Building a “shield” against natural disasters in Attica   In densely populated areas extreme weather conditions can become very dangerous very quickly, when the water has nowhere to go or a fire finds just so much material in close proximity to “jump at”. Attica...

Smart Traffic Management in Murcia

by Anna Beyer | Feb 13, 2024 | News

Working on smart ways to handle traffic in urban areas   The increase of individual motorized vehicles has been a challenge on many levels for most urban spaces in the world but historically grown spaces with narrow streets in particular. Cartagena, together with...

What do High Value Data sets have to do with invasive species in Vilnius ?

by Anna Beyer | Dec 28, 2023 | News

What do High Value Data sets have to do with invasive species in Vilnius ?   BeOpen is driven by the objective to work hands-on on current challenges cities encounter and finding adequate solutions, using high value datasets. One of our use cases is located in...

Light pollution and High Value Datasets

by Anna Beyer | Dec 20, 2023 | News

Energy efficiency versus light pollution – the role of high value data sets (HVD)     Light pollution has been rising with the increase of urban settlements. Artificial Light at Night-time (short ALAN) does not only influence our vision of the night-time sky but...

The Story Behind The Schwa Glyph in the BeOpen Branding

by Anna Beyer | Dec 4, 2023 | News

BeOpen Project branding for a consistent communication   The schwa glyph, with its simple and unassuming upside-down lowercase “e” (ə), was introduced by a German linguist of the 19th century. It described as an unstressed or toneless neutral vowel,...