Sensor Discovery Tour

Join us for an eye-opening walking tour through Leidseplein Area, one of Amsterdam’s liveliest urban hotspots — and a real-time testing ground for Urban Sensors.

As cities become smarter, sensors quietly shape how we live, move, and feel safe. But how visible is this digital layer of our city to its citizens? During this immersive experience, we’ll walk, observe, question, and discover the hidden network of devices that collect, connect, and communicate — from traffic flow cameras to environmental monitors.

Initiated by concerned citizens, led by urban innovators and sensor policy experts, this tour explores the real-life implications of smart city infrastructure: What’s this device? What is measured, and why? Who owns the data? Where’s the line between smart and surveillance.

This isn’t just a single tour. It is the second tour of three that build towards a prototype City TranspArency app. It’s an invitation to rethink the public space as both physical and digital — and to participate in the conversation about transparency, ethics, and social value in urban tech.