Installation Archive - 52°North Spatial Information Research GmbH

Stadt Münster

Installation and Support

Launching the KomMonitor platform for Stadt Münster

The Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia funds the city of Münster within the framework of the social funding program “Zusammen im Quartier” to strategically expand its social and neighborhood planning. An important goal of this project is to establish a data platform for the integration and analysis of small-scale data in order to analyze neighborhoods from a sociodemographic, health and supply perspective in a coherent and citywide comparison.

The City of Münster decided to establish the KomMonitor platform as a basis for decision making in order to support interdepartmental planning processes and to control offers and measures for strengthening neighborhoods. To this end, 52°North supported the city of Münster in deploying the complete KomMonitor stack in the technical infrastructure of the citeq, a municipal IT service provider. In addition to setting up KomMonitor, 52°North conducted several training sessions to guide staff from different departments in data analysis tasks for the KomMonitor platform.

All installation, technical support and workshops were provided in 2024.

KomMonitor at Stadt Münster — Workshop with 15 departments of the City of Münster to co-develop an indicator catalog for KomMonitor

Customer

Stadt Münster, Germany

regio iT – Remscheid

Deploying the KomMonitor Platform

Launching the KomMonitor platform and providing support for the social planning sector

regio iT GmbH is a municipal IT service provider in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The company provides IT infrastructure and services to public clients from various business fields, such as education and development or public administration. On behalf of the regio iT GmbH, 52°North launched the KomMonitor platform for the City of Remscheid. 52°North deployed the complete Docker-based KomMonitor software stack, relying on existing software components in regio iT GmbH’s IT infrastructure, which had already been put into production for the StädteRegion in Aachen in 2022.

52°North also provided 2nd level and 3rd level support for the KomMonitor platform to assist the customers, City of Remscheid and StädteRegion Aachen, with their technical questions. In addition, we conducted a dedicated training course to guide the City of Remscheid staff in data migration tasks for the KomMonitor platform.

The costs for the implementation of the KomMonitor platform in the City of Remscheid, 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”. 52°North provided all technical support and workshops in 2023.

regio IT: KomMonitor Remscheid — Unemployment rate in 2022 - Unemployed persons (SGB II and SGB III) proportional to all employable persons

Customer

regio iT gesellschaft für informationstechnologie mbh, Germany

Urban Data Space Platform

Installation and Support

Integrating KomMonitor into the Urban Data Space Platform

Südwestfalen-IT (SIT) is a municipal IT service provider for several municipalities in South Westphalia, Germany. It provides IT solutions to the public sector, such as cloud services, E-Government and IT infrastructure. Together with the cities of Arnsberg, Bad Berleburg, Menden, Olpe and Soest, the SIT aims to promote Smart City concepts in the region. These activities constituted the project “5 für Südwestfalen”. As part of this project, 52°North supports the project consortium with the integration of KomMonitor into the cloud-based Urban Data Space Platform, which is maintained by the IT service provider Hypertegrity.

KomMonitor Urban Data Space Paltform — Small-scale analysis with KomMonitor in the Smart Cities project “5 for South Westphalia”

52°North provides guidance in setting up KomMonitor within a Kubernetes Cluster as well as implementing ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) workflows for migrating municipal spatio-temporal data into KomMonitor via Node-RED. So far, 52°North has supported Hypertegrity in preparing the Kubernetes deployment of KomMonitor.

Customer

Südwestfalen-IT, Germany

Kreis Viersen

Installation and Support

Launching the KomMonitor platform for Kreis Viersen

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.

KomMonitor Web Client shows Viersen’s population at the municipal level as of 31.12.2022

Customer

Kreis Viersen, Germany