Get the latest tech news
Portlander creates AI-powered device to monitor street health
Once installed and set up, the device can detect just about anything that happens on a street.
This isn’t just a trivial weekend project by a garage tinkerer, it’s the result of years of development by a data expert who thinks his creation can revolutionize urban planning and kickstart a new era of people-powered advocacy for healthier cities. It uses a wide-angle camera, a very small (Raspberry Pi) computer, and machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) code to watch for objects in the street and then tallies what it sees in a database and presents the information in an easy-to-read display. By the time I had met Zajack around noon on wet and cold Monday, the LED display he built for the Traffic Monitor attached to his garage read: “Bike: 78; Ped: 144; Car: 242.”
Or read this on Hacker News
