LOSC/FLOW, sub-project: Sensors count the road users to Brunnshög
When Brunnshög is planned and built, the idea of sustainability is important — and this must, among other things, be noticed on the traffic. The idea is that journeys to and from the area will consist of at least one third of walking and cycling trips and at least one third by public transport, while it should be no more than one third by car. Now this is to be measured — and several companies in Lund are now collaborating in an innovation project to find common solutions on how to measure effectively.
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In the FLOW project, several actors in Lund are investigating how they can collect data together using sensor technology and then connect the data on a digital platform. In March 2022, Sensative, Smart Visualizer, Acconeer, MiThings, Mobile Heights, Lund Municipality and Future by Lund gathered at Axis Communications to develop technologies and working methods to develop new solutions on how to measure traffic flows.
“Finally a project meeting where we can meet again after the pandemic,” says project manager Anders Trana at Future by Lund. The ambition was to develop a plan for what to do to get our measurements started, and we have come a long way, thanks to AXIS having already looked at some of the sites in question. There was also a very good turnout at the meeting with good discussions. It's an incredible difference to have a project meeting where we meet for real, it becomes a completely different energy.
The Technical Administration of Lund Municipality and the City Building Office already have a plan for about ten places where it can be used to measure traffic. There are various walking and cycling routes to the area, and partly, of course, car routes. The first place where measurements will be taken will be the roundabout just south of Brunnshög, where cars will come from the Ring Road and the E22 towards the area. After that, measurements in new places will be added gradually.
“In the long run, we hope to cover all the entry and exit routes to Brunnshög in order to provide a comprehensive picture of travel in the area. The third objective is a fundamental prerequisite for planning the area and it is valuable for us to evaluate this so that we know if we are heading in the right direction. The hope is that FLOW will be an important tool to do this,” says Christoffer Karlsson, Stadsskontoret, Lund Municipality.
The idea is to try a mix of different sensors to find solutions that give a good picture of trips with the different types of traffic to and from Brunnshög. For this, the project will, for example, allow AXIS to try some of its new solutions with sensors and radars. These can both count the number of vehicles and additionally measure speeds.
“From Axis's side, we see it as an opportunity to be part of a local innovative project where, through our various technologies, we offer information about traffic and people flows. By using different types of hardware connected to intelligent analysis, we can offer the municipality of Lund the information needed to create a good environment around the growing area in Brunnshög, says Markus Lai at AXIS.
AXIS sensors will be combined with a radar sensor from Acconeer, where the company will build a prototype and then develop and test the solution in FLOW.
“This is an exciting area of application for our radar sensor, where we will try to classify pedestrians and cyclists using Artificial Intelligence. Our radar is high resolution and is already used in applications such as gesture control so we have good hopes that this will be solved. The traffic meter is designed to be small in size and battery powered, which will make installation of the finished product easy and inexpensive, says Martin Hoff at Acconeer.
It is mainly data on pedestrians, cyclists and cars/trucks that should be measured by the sensors. Data on public transport is already available from Skånetrafiken.
In FLOW collaborates Lund Municipality, Mobile Heights, California, Axis Communications, Sensative, MiThings, Smart Villages, Smart Visualizer and Acconeer.
The FLOW project runs from February 2022 to June 30, 2024 and is funded by IoT Sweden.
The FLOW project is made in close cooperation with the project Lund Open Sensing City, LOSC, which is funded by Vinnova. In LOSC, Enrolled project partners are Axis Communications, AFRY, The power ring, Lund University, Mobile Heights, Sensative, Sony, Telia and Trivecteur.
Sub-project in FLOW
Financier: IoT Sweden
Project Time: Feb 2022 - June 2024
Project Manager: Anders Trana, Future City of Lund
Project partners: Lund Municipality, Mobile Heights, Axis Communications, Sensative, MiThings, Smart Villages, Smart Visualizer and Acconeer.
What was the result? ONGOING
How is the project taken forward? ONGOING
Pictured: Dennis Montalvo Barthelemy, AXIS, and Hanna Zakrisson, Lund Municipality, in front of a map of Brunnshög.
