Difference between revisions of "TrafficCam"

Revision as of 16:02, 11 August 2008

Gear to record video of the pedestrian crossing and the speed of Eastbound traffic in front of Earlham on National Road West.

To do (ordered):

Test-drive current Axis camera "in-situ" on the wind geny's tripod. Use the PMP1 for the interface with the directional WiFi antenna. Location is likely to be the shrubbery near the East side of the entrance.
Research all-in-one systems, see Alan's email.
Research discrete speed sensors, pay close attention to the interface and data stream.

Possible technologies:

Tasks:

Image volume calculation:

60 seconds/minute x 60 minutes/hour x 24 hours/day x 7 days/week x 4.5 weeks/month x 12 months/year = 32,659,200 seconds/year
1 frame/second x 20 KB/frame x 32,659,200 seconds/year = 653,184,000 KB/year or 637,875 MB/year or 623 GB/year

Software architecture:

Cache 2 minutes locally
Use infobomb stack to transfer and append to current day's movie
4a-3:59a movies, sync with infobomb and roll-over, simple trac or fancydir listing by year-month

Questions for Doug:

Interface - 1 second frames, manual video review, automated video review, speed/video correlation,
Overall duration, 1 year?
Better density

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 * Research all-in-one systems, see Alan's email.
 * Research discrete speed sensors, pay close attention to the interface and data stream.
-Tasks:
-* upgrade Stewie's HDD
-* stop webcam cron jobs
-* unmount weather cam from roof
-* prepare green pelican case
-* prepare pmp1
-* prepare wifi antenna
-* assembly gear
-* configure software
-* deploy functional traffic cam unit
 Possible technologies:
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 * Power Source
 * Large IDE HDD (750GB / 1TB)
+Tasks:
+* upgrade Stewie's HDD
+* stop webcam cron jobs
+* unmount weather cam from roof
+* ~~prepare green pelican case~~
+* prepare pmp1
+* prepare wifi antenna
+* assembly gear
+* configure software
+* deploy functional traffic cam unit
 Image volume calculation: