Netage Blog Posts

About 3 years ago a group of fire fighters at a fire station in Amsterdam was confronted with a new navigation assistant in the fire truck. From a conceptual point of view the idea of having navigation assistance in a fire truck might be nice, but there are practical implications when using a system designed for normal traffic in an emergency vehicle , remember fire trucks are allowed to defy all the rules in traffic! Without elaborating on why it is not working as it should, the more abstract point is that it gives answers to questions we never asked. The…

Our company, netage.nl, has been active in the fire fighting business for over 10 years now. With a team of people, all close to or active in the job, we have learned a lot about how fire departments treat Information Technology. Over the years we have seen huge changes in the landscape of fire fighting and Information Technology. netage.nl however is not very pleased with what we see right now. In the current hype of open data and open government initiatives, fire departments are confronted with huge amounts of data. The enormous amount of attention that goes out to open…