Most roads are never measured. Not because it is technically impossible, but because the traditional way of counting traffic — pneumatic tubes, sensor loops, fieldwork teams — simply cannot reach everywhere at a price anyone is willing to pay.

Across the Nordic countries and the Baltics, we have spent the last several years working with national transport authorities on a different approach: using anonymized mobile network data to measure traffic continuously, automatically, and at scale. Here is what we learned.

ITS Norway Day 2026 focused on a timely theme: technology and trust in interaction. Across the day, one message stood out clearly: new mobility solutions do not succeed on technology alone. They depend on alignment between policy, industry and society.

Using an activity-based transport model to measure the impact of one supermarket in a Norwegian residential area with no food shops.

Norway is a destination that draws visitors from around the world. Understanding who visits Norway, when they arrive, and how their visit develops over time is critical for better planning, resource allocation, and market analysis. Mendo analytics, in partnership with Telcofy, is leading a pilot project to gain a clearer, more continuous picture of tourist and visitor data.

Mobility analytics often start with a simple idea: stronger signal means closer user. The real world is not that simple.

Radio waves bend, scatter, reflect, and get absorbed by the materials they encounter. Those physical effects can shift a device's apparent location by tens or hundreds of meters, even when the data pipeline is mathematically correct.

This post is the first in a short series on radio propagation and positioning accuracy. The goal is not to explain every equation, but to show why physics matters and how we validate positioning logic when ground truth is scarce.

As the holidays approach, it is natural to look back at the path we’ve traveled. For Telcofy, 2025 wasn’t just a year of business development; it was a year of initiative, conception, and birth.

From Vision to Momentum​

We've returned from the Smart City Expo World Congress 2025 in Barcelona energized, inspired, and more determined than ever to drive the future of data-driven urban innovation.

Photo credit: Nordic Edge/Tore B. Granstrøm

With Telcofy's vision of creating better and more sustainable societies, attending Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona this November is a natural step.

When statisticians, telecom operators, and data scientists meet in Paris, you can be sure of one thing: every signal matters.

When millions of people move through a city each day, mathematical patterns emerge that reveal how societies organize themselves.

Human mobility science studies these aggregate patterns - not where individuals go, but how populations flow and cluster across space and time. It's the foundation for understanding disease spread, urban planning, and emergency response.