First building workshop at Fablab Cottbus

Sunday, January 12, 2025 in News

After four months of development, the CitRad sensor is now ready to count vehicles and measure their speed. At the same time, we have largely finalized the building instructions for the sensor and also pushed ahead with the development of the data …

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Smart radar unit

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 in News

After we have developed an algorithm on the computer to analyze the radar data, the whole thing now has to be implemented on the device. Our goal is that all the data is already analyzed in the box and we only need to store the number of cars and …

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Data analysis

Tuesday, October 15, 2024 in News

After all our experiments with amplifier circuits and a low-noise power supply, our sensor now seems to be working well. At least you can clearly see different vehicles in the spectral images of the radar data and recognize how fast they are driving. …

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Data protection compliant traffic counting

Tuesday, October 01, 2024 in News

When we realized that we wanted to collect open traffic data and make it available for analysis, we quickly came to the question of how. Existing projects for the automated analysis of camera images were tempting, as they would have saved us a lot of …

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CitRad starts at the Prototype Fund

Tuesday, January 09, 2024 in News

After the hardware was developed the year before, CitRad is one of the funded projects of the 16th round of the Prototype Fund Software. The funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research enables us to improve the sensor’s …

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First measurements and a lot of interest in our project

Saturday, July 01, 2023 in Retrospektive: Hardware

With an initial prototype that provides data, we were finally able to invite interested parties to take measurements. At the same time, we took the opportunity to present the project at thematically appropriate events such as the Car-Free University …

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The first prototype

Thursday, June 01, 2023 in Retrospektive: Hardware

The CitRad sensor had to be based on a radar sensor that was as inexpensive as possible but still reliable and easy to replicate. After a few tests, we chose the IPS-354 module from Innosent. We also needed a powerful microprocessor to process the …

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How CitRad was conceived

Wednesday, March 01, 2023 in Retrospektive: Hardware

Where do you start to make a meaningful contribution to the traffic turnaround? We pondered this for a few days at FabLab Cottbus. We quickly realized that we wanted to implement a joint project. With the participation of interested citizens from …

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