Video: Easy traffic survey reports with Artificial intellegence

Video Transcript:

Hi guys, my name is john, and uh, welcome to the south-west of Western Australia.

Here at the moment, I'm in the local, regional park, and I'm here for a client actually gathering occupancy data of the car parks around the bay.

Not a terrible thing to be doing on a Thursday afternoon.

I'm capturing this video because there's been quite a lot of questions on how we gather the data and the reports that we've been sharing.

No, we don't sit on deck chairs and count them anymore; we use artificial intelligence (ALPR & ANPR). So this is the unit that we've created right here in Australia.

It's like a microcomputer. It has artificial intelligence installed on it, which actually counts the vehicles' classification for us. It can also decipher the make the model the colour the age of the car. There's whether to gather information about the plate as well, which you can even decipher more details.

So that's how we collect those reports super simple. It's an enjoyable job, so 12 volt goes in here straight from the cigarette lighter, or you can have an auxiliary battery if you wish. Then IP cameras that are also supplied with the unit you put it in the vehicle or on a pole or in a pelican case wherever you might wish to put it and the camera is pointing at the traffic. It'll do the gathering for you that is communicated directly to a sales dashboard where you can filter the results and download them as the next CSV, or you can generate your own graphs as well.

So I'm just going to take you on a bit of a demonstration right and show you how it works.

Okay, I've installed the edge box in the car in the boot. When I say installed, I've just thrown it in there and connected it to a cigarette lighter and then connected it to the two cameras supplied with the car kit, and they also come with the suction mount, so you just put it on the windscreen.

We tend to point it to about 30-degree angles. However, they're very forgiving, and uh, after a couple of hours of use, you'll be able to tweak them uh how you wish, for example.

If you're only wanting um to gather vehicles on the right-hand side on the left-hand right, you just point them in those directions, but this will cover both sides of the car.

So you'll get parked cars on the left, you'll get cars coming towards you on the right, and you can gather both lanes as you drive along, so let's go for a drive before I do.

We have a companion app that comes with the device, and this allows you to monitor at any time what's going on, so once it's booted up, you connect it to the wi-fi of the edge device. Now we've got a status page here, and this will tell you all the information you need to know about the box. The lte signal strength is moderate in this area.

It doesn't matter if it's weak or if it goes off completely because there's a queuing system within the device, so it will just store up the reads of the actual vehicles as we count them and then can store them for over a week and then only to upload them once it gets the signal strength.

GPS satellites are 15, which will show you the strength of the geolocation I suppose of each vehicle and make sure it goes on the map in the right location GPS location. It'll show you exactly where we are.

If I click on the view, we're in the right location on the map. This is again just to make sure that the box is working correctly for you, and then we've got pending uploads in the queue, so if we go offline for a while, that will start to build up. I have seen over a thousand in there while we're working uh way up north in Western Australia but at the moment is zero because we've got enough lte strength. So we have a van that's driving past us now, and it should pick it up as it goes past it's a victoria plate as well, so let's see what happens.

I've just come back to the vehicle reads location there we go we've picked this vehicle up, and we look at it we'll say it's a victoria plate it's got a picture of the plate.

I don't know if you can see this. I will take a screenshot and make sure that you get this up on the screen; uh, it's a Toyota toilet van. There's the plate as well so that information is stored not only that it's stored with a specific location as well another vehicle went past. We've captured that too, white Toyota Yaris, from Kalamanda, it's western Australian plate. It gives you all the different details. It'll also store the fact that it's a white vehicle, and it's approximately 2017 somewhere around there okay, um I'll go for a drive. We'll capture a few more plates, and when we get too dull bits, I'll cut it off, and we'll move on to another area to grab a few plates. Then I'll show you our pelican case that we um paddle up to the side of the road for quick surveys as well. Let's get to it.

so let's see about the time, of course, um it's a good time day Thursday afternoon there are no school holidays, and it's western Australia, so we're not heaving with people we don't have too many people here, but as we drive past uh some vehicles um it will pick them up and make sure we get them so there we go we've got that one the Elantra we got as well even though it was on the side now I'm not sure why we have a traffic jam going on just here

So we've got a vehicle here. It's a Ford Falcon.

But we know that that's from Harvey with the plate, so you can decipher that information as well, and the vehicle there was from Bustleton, or it's a local aerial vehicle.

We're off to eagle bay now.

We've got that Toyota another Toyota as you see Toyotas are very popular in this area there we go even got that parked one okay here I am in the small town of Dunsborough. I thought I'd just show you what it's like to vacuum up vehicles in the car park very simple uh cameras are pointing both directions, so it'll capture on both sides just simply drive through, keeping your eyes on the road and the edge device will do all the hard work for you.

it'll also capture vehicles that are perpendicular and in like a herringbone type parking scenario such as this coming up here, so I'll just drive past at average driving speeds,

This is a give way, so I'll just turn around and get to the other side of the car park.

really is that simple

Okay, setting up a pelican case. The temporary survey unit's precisely the same as the same hardware uh you can take it from the car and put it straight into a pelican case or something uh robust like that. You set the uh companion app in it up in precisely the same way the same app and just make sure that it's running when you're in a safe location.

Once that's done, just put it where you wish to collect the traffic information, and as before, the cameras are very forgiving, so you don't have to be absolutely accurate with the device's location.

You might want to just uh quickly check on the companion app and just monitor the cars that go past and make sure they're coming through correctly.

you can set this up on the side of the road like this you can elevate it on a pole uh you can put it into a central reservation and make use of both cameras that's up to you, and obviously, once you've adjusted it and you're happy with the location then simply just um secure it chain it up or however you wish, and that's good to go

Okay, this is the final way that we collect more information about vehicles. It's a simple phone application that is as simple as taking pictures with your phone. It's called capture ALPR, and it's a free complimentary app with a subscription.

Again, no need to use hardware this time other than your phone and simply snap pictures of vehicles as you're walking around, and this will automatically.

Decipher the car in the same way as the edge devices. As you can see there, it's worked out that it's a Kia Sportage. I wouldn't have known that myself. Let's go over to this one here now. You don't have to wait for the results. You can just keep on snapping, and it will cue them up and send them up to the cloud when required, so let's just do that very quickly. Just quick-moving through one, two, three, and four, and it's that easy hid quarantine subject, okay, so we just got an alert on one of these vehicles because we have another feature for email and also SMS alerts. If you put the plate of a car into the system, uh, from maybe a different use case, but it's there any way in case you're looking for a vehicle, it's perhaps one of your own assets. Maybe it's a vehicle coming through a checkpoint, and you want to be alerted of when that happens anyway that feature exists. It wasn't part of this tutorial, but there we are going. That's how we collect different pieces of information and then simply go on to a laptop or an iPad, or you can even use your phone. It's responsive uh go to the cloud and uh export a CSV or look at the reports directly within our own platform.

Thanks, guys. I hope you have enjoyed this quick tutorial of our system and hope you find some insights about the information we've been sending out.

Cheers