Traffic Behavior and Safety study in Denmark

In many cities, there are places where many road users pass or stay in a complicated network of routes and get into a risky interaction. It can be difficult to get an overview of the whole situation and define the “hot spots” where the traffic behavior is simply non-standard. Our tool Data From Sky is in most cases be able to uncover, sort and analyze all movements of vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians in a larger area and evaluate critical parts of a road network, that might be risky for any traffic participant. This kind of overview and analysis can give traffic and urban planners a very good starting point for designing any adjustments.

The figure below shows an area in the city of Aarhus in Denmark and displays the flow of cyclists (pink trajectories) and pedestrians (green trajectories) in the 2-hour period. The main goal of the analysis is to provide the Aarhus Municipality with an overview of cyclists and pedestrian movement in the analyzed area and identify some patterns in their traffic behavior.

After having formed a detailed overview of all the different flows and routes, author of this study (Birger Villadsen, Traffic Specialist at COWI) has focused on those areas, where cyclists’ and pedestrians’ behavior gets into a collision. The detailed DataFromSky Analysis helped to analyze the problematic spots and draw up proposals for changes, that can help to simplify the traffic flow. Aarhus Municipality will evaluate the list of proposals and test them on the site by making temporary changes and observing whether they have the intended effect before the changes are implemented permanently.

*full article can be found at Cowi Creators blog.

January 31, 2019 in Latest news

Amazing results of DataFromSky Light service!

Have you already tried our new service DataFromSky Light – fully automatic analysis of traffic from static cameras? Not yet? Try it now for free!
Get the precise traffic data fast and reliable just in 3 steps:
1) record the traffic using a camera or simply your phone (to reach the best results, follow the instructions in this video)
2) upload your video to WeTransfer.com and send it to analyze@datafromsky.com
3) receive your results together with DataFromSky Light software and enjoy your data (various features for user: counts, OD-matrix, visualizations, many export functions, classification of objects, trajectories and much more)!

Take a look at a great example of the DFS Light analysis – our software easily handles and can analyze such traffic conditions prevailing e.g. in India. Could you count all of the motorbikes? We can, in a while!

January 29, 2019 in Latest news

PF 2019

DataFromSky team and everyone at RCE systems would like to wish to all of our partners a wonderful holiday season
and prosperous and joyful New Year. Thank you for your continuing support in 2018 and we are looking forward to continued success in 2019!

December 26, 2018 in Latest news

DataFromSky Light is now out!

Christmas is just around the corner and we have prepared a special gift for you. An alpha version of our new service DataFromSky Light is now available for all traffic analysis enthusiasts! We have moved closer to the ground to make the awesome features of the DataFromSky closer to you as well. Fully automatic traffic data extraction from various “ground” video sources can be now smoothly and quickly delivered to you using the DataFromSky Light service. Rethink the traffic studies with our free video analytic tools, rethink the way you explore traffic!

The DataFromSky Light is an online service that processes traffic-related video data captured by smartphones, camcorders or highway surveillance cameras. It detects, classifies and tracks traffic objects in any video source. The following traffic object classes are supported:

pedestrian
bicycle
motorcycle
car
heavy vehicle

Video and result data exchange is performed via WeTransfer sharing service. How to use the DataFromSky Light service can be seen in the following video:

The results of the traffic analysis are provided in our TLGX format and can be viewed using a new lightweight license-free version of the DataFromSky Viewer called DataFromSky Viewer Light. The DataFromSky Viewer Light can visualize the spatial-temporal data that can be interactively examined in the whole analyzed time interval. The DataFromSky Viewer Light has the most of the licensed DataFromSky Viewer version functionality including:

traffic objects counting
directional/selective gate counting
O/D matrix counting
capacity estimation
headway statistics computation
gap time computation
time to follow computation
target time computation
trajectories visualization
heat-map visualization
export of the trajectories in various formats (.csv, .trj, .xlsx)
snapshot/video render export

The DataFromSky Light can process data from any video input such as static/handheld consumer camera video recording or a video capture from an existing video infrastructure (i.e. surveillance cameras). For the best traffic analysis results we recommend the following input video parameters:

resolution: 1280×720 or more (min. PAL)
bitrate: 5 Mb/s or more
framerate: 25 or more
min. traffic object size: 32px in one dimension
continuous video without cuts
no camera movement

The service can provide accurate results even beyond these parameters. We also recommend minimizing occlusions in the view on the scene in order to maximize the traffic analysis accuracy. For the post process traffic analysis in the DataFromSky Viewer Light software, it is useful for the input video to be as stable as possible with the area of the interest kept in the view throughout the whole video capture process to prevent a misleading gate counting since the video is not georegistered.

Picture 1: Examples of scene views suitable for the DataFromSky Light.

Picture 2: Not suitable scene views for the DataFromSky Light service (commented from the top left to bottom right – rotated; intended for DataFromSky Aerial; a lot of partial occlusions; big moving objects causing enormous occlusions)

There is no registration needed in order to use the DataFromSky Light. Free usage of the service is limited to 5 videos per day per one e-mail address. The maximum length of 2 hours per video can be analyzed for free as well. For the unlimited DataFromSky Light access please contact info@datafromsky.com. Try and see for free.

December 21, 2018 in Latest news

DataFromSky presented at RMS Bridge Conference

In the first week of December 2018, the annual RMS Bridge Conference was held in Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia. One of the main topics was „Smart Technology for Bridges” where a concept of using drones with Aerial Artificial Intelligence (DataFromSky software) in bridge inspection was presented. Besides the new application field in bridge inspection, other use cases of DataFromSky were shown by Houman Hatamian (traffic monitoring, perimeter surveillance, pedestrian monitoring etc.). The presentation on this event, that attended more than 350 participants this year, was received with a very positive response!

December 19, 2018 in Latest news

Will drones rule Singapore? – DataFromSky presented Smart dron on Czech Business Mission

Lately, the team of RCE systems /DataFromSky/ had the honor to participate on Czech Business Delegation in Singapore, held from 21. – 23. 11. 2018. The delegation was represented by chosen Czech companies, representatives from the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Czech Republic, the branch of CzechTrade in Singapore or Embassy of the Czech Republic in Jakarta. During this delegation, we had a speech on Czech Business Forum in SMF and were warmly welcomed by special guests e.g. Mr. Kwee (Honorary Consul of the Czech Republic), Mr. Khoon (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador to Czech Republic), representatives of Enterprise Singapore or Singapore Manufacturing Federation. Thank you for such a great opportunity and we are looking forward to developing future cooperation in Singapore!

December 3, 2018 in Latest news

Presenting DataFromSky on HiTech Exhibition China

RCE systems presented its products DataFromSky and ParkingDetection on HiTech Exhibition China, held from 14. to 18. 11. 2018 in Shenzhen – have a look on few photos from our stand we had together with CzechTrade. Both of our smart solutions attract lots of interest among the visitors, we are looking forward to the new upcoming opportunities in the Chinese market!

November 28, 2018 in Latest news

Visit us on HiTech China Expo in Shenzhen

DataFromSky is participating on Hi-Tech China exhibition in Shenzhen! One of the biggest hi-tech event in Asia is held from 14. to 18. 11. 2018 in the Convention and Exhibition Center in Shenzhen. You can find us on the stand together with the Czech governmental agency Czech Trade. Come to visit us on stand nb. 1A93 in Hall 1!

Click here to see the event’s website.

November 9, 2018 in Latest news

DataFromSky in Traffic Expo India

DataFromSky participated on the Traffic Expo in India, Mumbai, alongside with our partner VTRAC Worldwide. Our AAI, Aerial Artificial Intelligence, aroused big interest among many visitors of this smart traffic exhibition.
Have a look at a few photos from our stand!

Next station? Hi-Tech Exhibition in Shenzhen, China, 14.-18.11. 2018, come to visit us on our stand n.1A93, Hall 1 in Convention and Exhibition Center in Shenzhen!

November 9, 2018 in Latest news

DataFromSky on Traffic Science Congress in Netherlands

Roelofs, partner of DataFromSky for BENELUX region, is participating on the National Traffic Science Congress, held on 31st October and 1st November 2018 in Conference Center in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.

During the congress on November 1st, Mr. Tim Adema, the head of the Traffic & Transport cluster in Roelofs, will give a lecture on the Traffic Research and will discuss the use of drones and advanced software analytics in traffic surveys. The topic to the discussion is also what are the main advantages of drones in traffic surveys over the traditional methods.

Do not miss the lecture Traffic research 2.0: Thursday 1 November 15:40 and find out more about the innovative approach of the traffic surveys using drones and DataFromSky software!

October 31, 2018 in Latest news

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