Counting Traffic for the Community - Telraam

RE: Counting Traffic for the Community - Telraam

Jan Cumps — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 11:08:23 GMT

I posted a follow up, the data after 2 days of counting and settling: Counting Traffic with Telraam - stats after 2 days

RE: Counting Traffic for the Community - Telraam

BigG — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 21:33:47 GMT

A EU funded ‘citizen science’ project called "WeCount" was launched a couple of years ago where numerous cities participated. https://www.we-count.net/

It's good to see that it's still running.

Your write up about setting it up and what the data output looks like is very helpful.

Here's hoping improvements are made and that it continues to get adopted so that a better understanding of urban traffic flows can be achieved.

RE: Counting Traffic for the Community - Telraam

ntewinkel — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 19:08:42 GMT

That's a really clever solution!

It's not open-source, is it? I imagine it could make for some very interesting data if universities/colleges/high-schools around the world started doing similar studies.

RE: Counting Traffic for the Community - Telraam

Jan Cumps — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 11:27:00 GMT

The firmware has now sent the first (intentionally!) blurred image to the cloud.

30 seconds of video are recorded, then all pixels are averaged to make any moving object unrecognisable
the resolution is reduced by using pixelisation. This takes care that people and license plates never show up.

These can be used to validate if the camera is still covering the expected area or has moved (e.g. by using curtains or cleaning the window).

RE: Counting Traffic for the Community - Telraam

dougw — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 23:20:03 GMT

How well does it work at night?