Vehicle Detection and Classification Using Passive Infrared Sensing
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Oudat, Enas; Mousa, Mustafa; Claudel, Christian
- Source
- 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on. :443-444 Oct, 2015
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Transportation
Vehicles
Monitoring
Temperature sensors
Temperature measurement
Ash
Acoustics
Speed estimation
Vehicle classification
Flash flood
Wireless Sensor Networks
- Language
We propose a new sensing device that can simultaneously monitor urban traffic congestion and another phenomenon of interest (flash floods on the present case). This sensing device is based on the combination of an ultrasonic rangefinder with one or multiple remote temperature sensors. We show an implementation of this device, and illustrate its performance in both traffic flow sensing. Field data shows that the sensor can detect vehicles with a 99% accuracy, in addition to estimating their speed and classifying them in function of their length. The same sensor can also monitor urban water levels with an accuracy of less than 2 cm.