OpenCV Bicycle Counter #mz-bicycle-commuter

#MakeZurich - Civic tech and LoRaWAN hackathon for a better city

• Hackathon in Zurich, February 3-4, 2017
• OpenCV Bicycle Counter Project from Samuel Bichsel & Michael Schmuki

About the "Bicycle commuter"-Challenge

"Dive into the pulse of the city and track/map/visualize bicycle commuters using low cost sensors and open data to calibrate your measurements."

• Challenge from Tiefbau- und Entsorgungsdepartement - Stadt Zürich
• See the Slides from the Kick-Off Event
• Existing Data at Daten der automatischen Fussgänger- und Velozählung - Viertelstundenwerte

About OpenCV Bicycle Counter

The project has three major parts.

• The detector: A C++ program which detects and tracks the bicycles and writes the count to a files.
• The transmitter: A bash script, which runs as Crontab and which uploads the data to the TTN.
• The client application: A website, which shows the counts an updates itself when a new count arrives.

This is just a prototype. While it runs ok on a laptop, it really struggles on a Raspberry Pi 3.

The prototype:

The web client:

Licence

• Code: MIT License
• Creative work: CC-BY-SA 4.0