Edge-Computing Video Analytics for Real-Time Traffic Monitoring in a Smart City

Sensors (Basel). 2019 May 2;19(9):2048. doi: 10.3390/s19092048.

Abstract

The increasing development of urban centers brings serious challenges for traffic management. In this paper, we introduce a smart visual sensor, developed for a pilot project taking place in the Australian city of Liverpool (NSW). The project's aim was to design and evaluate an edge-computing device using computer vision and deep neural networks to track in real-time multi-modal transportation while ensuring citizens' privacy. The performance of the sensor was evaluated on a town center dataset. We also introduce the interoperable Agnosticity framework designed to collect, store and access data from multiple sensors, with results from two real-world experiments.

Keywords: CCTV; IoT; edge-computing; smart city; traffic monitoring; video analytic.