Hi HN, given all the work and impressive progress that is going on on the subject of AI, I was wondering if there exists a street vehicle counter mobile app.
One would film the street, visualize the speed of vehicles, and get a report. Kind of what Telraam does, but using our very powerful smartphones, locally, no server subscription needed.
It would also be easy to connect it to a USB battery in a box, to be used by municipalities in order to better know the trafix on a segment of a street, to plan evolutions with a cheap data-based approach. It seems to me that it could be selled to the public sector.
I've found github repositories exposing scripts using YOLO, but nothing ready to use and not really focused on speed.
Have you stumbled upon something similar, or do you have advices on a state of the art library that could make it easy to develop ?
> connect it to a USB battery in a box
I think these choices would put this idea at a serious disadvantage to other competitors in this space. The reason others are using purpose-built hardware is because it solves problems that repurposed consumer hardware in a box will experience.
Municipalities don't care what your hardware or software stack is. They want to know what problem you're solving for them. If you tell them that you can count traffic to do traffic studies, they're going to tell you that they already bought something 10 years ago that does that. Why would they buy your solution?
If a municipality wants something cheap and offline to count traffic, they can just buy a tube counter today, or use the one they probably already have in their storage room.
Take a look at something like: https://diamondtraffic.com/