WORLDTECHSolar Powered Traffic Monitoring
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What happened
Identifying vehicles in traffic is achieved with the YOLOv8 Nano machine vision model, which outputs bounding boxes around cars, trucks, buses, and motorcycles captured in the webcam feed. [Marios Christoforou] recently undertook a Computer Engineering degree at the University of Cypress.
His final year project involved implementing a solar-powered device to count vehicular traffic , while logging results to the cloud. The project is built around a Raspberry Pi 5, specifically the version with 4 GB of RAM.
It runs Raspberry Pi OS and is equipped with a basic webcam with 720p video output. The single-board computer runs off a 12 volt lead acid battery, which is charged via a 100 W solar panel hooked up to a basic charger module.
Sources & evidence
- Hackaday Reporting source
Solar Powered Traffic Monitoring ↗
https://hackaday.com/2026/09/24/solar-powered-traffic-monitoring/