Interact City - Signify

Province of Groningen

Provincial roads have lighting and this lighting contains luminaires. Energy consumption of the luminaires is monitored in the Interact City system. The system tracks the energy consumption of the luminaires and gives an error message in case of deviation.

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• Publication category: Other algorithms
• Impact assessment: Field not filled in.
• Status: In use

General information

Theme

Traffic

Begin date

2019-10

Contact information

[e-mail]

Responsible use

Goal and impact

The purpose of the algorithm is to manage luminaires remotely. If it is indicated from the system that a luminaire is not lit, a contractor is called in. This has the impact of facilitating management of luminaires.

Considerations

The algorithm facilitates the management of luminaires on provincial roads. If a fault is detected by the system, it can be detected quickly. Gradually, work is in progress to make a larger number of luminaires smarter. In the case of old luminaires, the province depends on citizens or its own observation. A potential drawback could be a chance of hacking. However, the consequences of a hacking are limited, luminaires will only be switched off. It is considered that the risks remain the same, and therefore these risks are not weighed periodically.

Human intervention

When an anomaly on a luminaire is reported, an employee checks whether a contractor will be sent to the luminaire for repair. The system could be capable of making its own actions in response to reports. However, this is not used now or in the future and human intervention will continue to take place.

Risk management

There is no risk of automated decision-making or infringement of fundamental rights, as the algorithm does not make binding decisions, but only provides notifications when an anomaly is detected. As this risk will not change in the near future, there is no periodic monitoring of risks. Signify owns the algorithm and the Province of Groningen works in the system as operator. It has been discussed in writing that 1 person within the Province of Groningen has the rights to the system. In case persons need to be added or removed to the system, the person in possession of the rights will perform these actions. Interactcity is managed externally and maintenance agreements have been signed for this. Regular checks and contact take place between the employee of the Province of Groningen and the supplier of the algorithm to ensure the connection between input and output to guarantee the correctness and completeness of the processing. The algorithm only uses data from users. No data from external persons are used, so the management of information does not pose any risk either.

Legal basis

Roads Act

Operations

Data

Fixture energy consumption data.

Technical design

Provincial roads have lighting and this lighting contains luminaires. Energy consumption of the luminaires is monitored in the Interact City system. The system tracks the energy consumption of the luminaires and issues an error message in case of deviation in energy consumption. This could mean that the luminaire is broken or that the system gives an error message. The Interactcity system will indicate in the error message that it is recommended to send a contractor to the luminaire. An employee will then determine whether a contractor will be sent to the faulty luminaire. However, the Interactcity system itself cannot make the decision to send a contractor to the luminaire. This can only be done by human contact. Using an astronomical clock, voltage is applied to the network with darkness.

External provider

Signify