Smart data collection in Cunit

Cunit is a coastal city 50 km southwest of Barcelona and is home to around 8,000 inhabitants. This number peaks at 50,000 during the holiday season. Cunit has over 1,200 km of roads. The municipality is using an outdated geographic information system (GIS) developed by a third party. The GIS needs to be modernised to incorporate the inventory of road elements such as pedestrian crossings, traffic signs and lights, etc.

ASIMOB will install its lightweight, low-cost devices on-board municipal maintenance vehicles. These devices are programmed to automatically collect video and data from the streets with an established frequency and send data to the cloud. The solution will be based on three key elements:

• on-board equipment, including sensors and cameras installed in vehicles that circulate frequently on streets and highways, to collect data and video footage of the sites to be monitored;

• cloud services that automatically detect, classify and analyse traffic signs, road markings, pavement irregularities and protections, applying artificial vision and data analytics;

• a web application that displays information with high added value for end users. The application can be connected through an API to Smart City platforms or traffic platforms, and the information can be combined with other sources of information.

During the pilot, the ASIMOB solution will:

• make an inventory of traffic signs (144 km of road monitored);

• analyse degraded signals and misplaced signals;

• make an inventory and analysis of road markings;

• detect and classify sites where pavements have deteriorated;

• detect and analyse speed reduction elements.