Municipality of Leiden

To carry out parking controls, the municipality uses scan cars. The cameras on the scan car use an image recognition algorithm to 1) recognise license plates and 2) check in the parking rights database whether the vehicle is allowed to park there. Boas also have manual scanners that perform checks.

Leiden municipality uses ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) cameras to check whether vehicles are allowed to drive in a certain area. This applies to zero-emission zones and car-free zones in the city. If a vehicle is not allowed to drive in an area, the camera recognises it and a manual chec...

If something needs to be fixed or cleaned up in public spaces, it can be reported to the municipality through Signals. This is a municipality notification system.

The algorithm underlines personal data in documents. An employee has to look at all pages and check whether the document is properly anonymised. Then the software removes all highlighted information and blacklists it. After that, the documents can be published, for example under the Open Government ...

Based on language technology, personal and company names are read and filtered out of text files such as emails and individual documents.