The beauty of Timos – Traffic Insight Monitoring Camera – is that it covers all the bases when it comes to traffic monitoring, explains Yechan Kang, business development manager with the Korean manufacturer Bitsensing. If the camera doesn’t sense it, then the radar will.
Together the two processes amass a huge but extremely manageable amount of traffic movement data. The small black sensor and camera box is mounted over a roadway that can be up to 16 lanes wide. This means a sensor can gather data on eight lanes in one direction and another eight in the opposite direction.
The range of vehicle movement is around 200m and data is collected around 20 times a second. Unlike traditional loop, camera and lidar sensors, TIMOS provides a consistent level of accuracy regardless of poor weather/lighting conditions. According to Korea’s department of transport, the data has a 98% accuracy rate.
Timos can simultaneously detect up to 256 vehicles at one instant and break down the data into various classifications, such as eight vehicle types – buses, light trucks, passenger cars – travelling at up to 320kph.
Data can be isolated into types such as traffic volume or flow by lane, queue congestion length, vehicle average speeds and lane changing. Importantly, the data is processed internally, so there is no need for any PC and downloads.
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