Dick Stenmark

In addition to being a Senior Researcher here at the Viktoria Institute, I hold a position as Associate Professor of Informatics at the IT University of Göteborg, Sweden. Currently, I am working with Banverket (Swedish Rail Administration) in a three-year project called "Design of innovative customer-oriented IT-based services". The rapid development of sensor technology that has resulted in the technology becoming cheaper and more powerful, has generated a growing interest in and an increased use amongst many of the railway industry actors.

Today's problem is that much of the data that sensor technology generates is piled up in isolated subsystems where it risks becoming a liability rather than an asset. To be able to exploit the large potential that sensor technology implies, two requirements need to be satisfied:
1. There must exist technical possibilities to combine data from different sources (systems and actors) in innovative ways and with maintained integrity, and;
2. There must exist a desire amongst the actors to share their information.

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