In the summer of 2019, Tallinn University of Technology installed a sensor network of approximately 900 sensors in the urban environment of Tallinn to measure environmental performance, noise, and traffic volume, as part of IMO and SMENETE2 projects. About a third of the sensors allow pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles to be identified and counted. Sensor readings are collected in the Cumulocity IoT information system managed by the IT faculty of TalTech. As of October 2019, the Cumulocity IoT information system has been connected to approximately 30 urban traffic sensors, each collecting several thousands of traffic-related readings per day.

Related projects

Smart Environment Networking Technologies 2(SMENETE2)

Completed studies

Kaugerand, J., Ehala, J., Mõtus, L., & Preden, J.-S. (2018). Time-selective data fusion for in-network processing in ad hoc wireless sensor networks. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. Read here.

Riid, A., Kaugerand, J., Ehala, J., Jaanus, M. and Preden, J.S., 2018, October. An Application of a Low-Cost Microwave Radar to Traffic Monitoring. In 2018 16th Biennial Baltic Electronics Conference (BEC) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.

Peet, T. Master’s theses: „Challenges in Implementing Artificial Neural Networks on Microcontrollers: an ARM Cortex-M Example“. Read here.

Use of data

Currently, both the sensor network and the sensor data information system are being tested, so the data is not yet public and is not available to everyone. Therefore, data is currently only available on request.

Contact

Jaanus Kaugerand

Jaanus Kaugerand

Early Stage Researcher

jaanus.kaugerand@taltech.ee

EU Fund
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Infotechnological Mobility Observatory

The research was conducted using the research infrastructure “Infotechnological Mobility Observatory” funded by the Estonian Research Council (TARISTU24-TK18)

Beneficiary: University of Tartu

Partners: Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn University, Statistics Estonia

Period: 2014 - 2029

Brief description: Growing spatial mobility is one of the important changes in modern society, which is related to the topics of external and internal migration, urbanization, entrepreneurship, inequality and regional development. Up-to-date and high-quality data are needed to study spatial mobility. The goal of IMO is to develop an innovative data infrastructure supporting mobility research, integrating geographically and longitudinally diverse national statistics and innovative IT data sources.