Speed Camera

Purpose

• monitor the speed of people driving in front of my house 🚚
• take a picture of each car and label it with its speed 📷
• make a cool time-lapse video and put it on youtube 📺 https://youtu.be/GM9vSAUtNBc
• make cool graphs to analyze the data 📊 📉 (Charts/Graphs Below!)

How

• Raspberry Pi Zero2 W
• Clone https://github.com/pageauc/speed-camera.git to the pi
• point the camera at the road
• add the starting of the scripts to the bottom of /etc/rc.local (above 'exit 0')
• calibrate and configure

/etc/rc.local additions

cd /home/pi/speed-camera
python3 ./webserver.py &
python ./speed-cam.py &

Example Image

Charts / Graphs

Average Speed vs. Day

Car Count vs. Hour

Frequency of Speed

Speed's Normal Distribution

Average Speed vs. Direction (L2R or R2L)

Average Speed vs. Hour

Car Count vs. Day