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Roadside Detection

Counting vehicles and the people inside them — the two questions that decide whether ITS data is worth acting on.

Also known as BlueTOAD, Bluetooth Re-identification, Vehicle Occupancy

Evaluated roadside detection technologies with vendors and industry leaders on the two questions that decide whether ITS data is worth acting on: counting vehicles through an intersection accurately, and counting the people inside them.

Assessed BlueTOAD Bluetooth re-identification alongside alternative platforms. Device-based re-identification counts handsets rather than occupants, so volume and occupancy accuracy became a matter of correlating detection methods rather than trusting any single sensor.

Also searched as

  • IoT
  • Internet of Things
  • Industrial IoT
  • IIoT
  • M2M
  • machine to machine
  • smart city
  • connected infrastructure
  • V2I
  • adaptive signal control
  • traffic telematics

Instrumented plant, metering, roadside and building devices reporting over a network — the practice the term was coined for, two decades before it had the name.