The Mobility category of the Zhaga Smart City Sensor Awards includes solutions for counting vehicles, bicycles and pedestrian traffic and/or measuring vehicle speed, the award went to global lighting technology supplier Tridonic and its SensorX concept.
Based on the Zhaga-D4i standard, this game-changing CMOS image sensor is designed to accurately measure traffic density and patterns in real time, providing data that urban planners can use to mitigate road congestion. The sensor can also recognize different road users. For example, when it detects a pedestrian crossing the street, the sensor can send commands to adjacent luminaires to raise lighting levels.
The fields of application of SensorX are manifold, besides street lighting and illumination of public ways, the sensor can also be used for parking areas and parking lots. This gives urban planners, the possibility to prevent congestion, to optimise traffic routing or to actively improve parking management with the data collected in real time.
