Elaborator, sub-project: Traffic status at Mårtenstorget
In the large European mobility project Elaborator, Lund is working on how to design sustainable mobility in a city. In order to do this, it is important to know what the current situation looks like and to be able to measure how the actions taken affect the situation. Therefore, Future by Lund is now testing the technology by seeing how to measure traffic and parking at Mårtenstorget in Lund using sensors.
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Lund Municipality, Sensative and Future by Lund participate in Elaborator, which is a research project within the EU Horizon, where 12 cities across Europe are testing solutions to create a more sustainable and safe urban environment with a focus on transport. As part of this, the project is working on technical solutions that provide data to better understand the traffic situation.
At Östra Mårtensgatan in central Lund, the project is testing using an image-based sensor from AXIS Communications. This sensor performs the analysis directly in the device and only sends further statistics on the number of vehicles passed and the occupancy rate of parking lots. None of the original material is recorded or saved.
Here is an example of what the material sent on and in to the project's IoT platform via LoRa looks like:
payload_hex: 1d0136000200da031d2ba619af0105008909d122 (2024-07-08 09:40) - which in the collecting platform translates to:
The technical solution is designed to comply with the requirements and rules of the Swedish Data Protection Agency (IMY) for measuring traffic flows in public places and, for example, ensures that no information about persons is remotely accessible from the measuring equipment. Similar solutions are already installed in other locations in Sweden.
The project uses the LoRa data transfer technology. LoRa stands for Long Range, and is a patented wireless digital transmission technology. LoRa is used to build wireless networks on license-free frequencies over larger areas and enables the transmission of data over long distances. The focus is low power consumption, long range and low BER (error rate in the data transmission). LoRa is a hardware and factory-independent standard. This solution cannot transmit really large data sets, which here is positive because it precludes the transmission of sensitive information such as images and film.
The project in Sweden is carried out in collaboration between Future by Lund, Lund Municipality, Sensative and Linköping University, with the support of AXIS Communications. Many thanks also to Mobile Heights who are participating through the Flow project!
In Lund, the work of the Elaborator project is carried out in several different parts. For example, the IoT platform Yggio from Lundabolaget Sensative is used as a common platform for the project in Europe. Lund also has an intense collaboration with Copenhagen to learn from their traffic solutions.
Read more
Elaborator: Lund one of 12 European cities in an EU sustainable mobility project
This is where the work on a European traffic data platform starts
Focus on parking in cooperation with Copenhagen
Link to the project on Future by Lund's page
