The District of Viersen (Kreis Viersen) is a district in North Rhine-Westphalia and is responsible for district monitoring. This provides annual insights into the structural situation of its municipalities and the district as a whole. In order to provide municipal experts and citizens with a statistical tool that facilitates continuous district monitoring and supports social planning tasks, Kreis Viersen decided to implement the KomMonitor platform. 52°North deployed the complete KomMonitor stack in the technical infrastructure of the Kommunale Rechenzentrum Niederrhein (KRZN), which is one of the largest IT service providers for municipalities in Germany.

In addition to setting up KomMonitor, 52°North provided support to KRZN users. This included guidance on importing spatial and statistical datasets into KomMonitor, as well as expanding the KomMonitor Importer API for additional data sources, such as the OGC API – Features. 52°North also provided training on KomMonitor’s permission management concept and the practical use of Keycloak for user management.

The costs for the introduction of the KomMonitor platform in Kreis Viersen, as well as for all training and support sessions, were funded by the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of the social funding program “Zusammen im Quartier”. All installation, technical support and workshops were provided in 2023.