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Show HN: Placemeter Sensor – count people, bikes, and cars in real-time
- Qworg 11y agoInteresting. What do your false rates look like?
- dfine 11y agoThe quality of the view and the angle determine a lot, but generally our accuracy is above industry average for human counters and other systems.
- mgalka 11y agoI'm a fellow New Yorker, and have been familiar with Placemeter for a while. Really like the concept, seems like it could grow in a ton of different directions. Maybe it's there on the site and I just missed it, but what is the one-liner overview of how the sensor works? Does it detect mobile devices?
- dfine 11y agoThe one liner is right below the larger headline on the landing page, perhaps we should've made it more prominent: "The Placemeter Sensor measures pedestrian, vehicle, and bicycle traffic in real-time."
- ytjohn 11y agoI couldn't find it anywhere on their site, but when I googled, I found their FAQ page. Apparently the sensor is really just a pre-configured ip camera. Per their faq page, you could even use your own ip camera, or send them video files. They process the videos and provide you with access to the data through an API. I'm a bit less excited about this now. I thought this was something like an advanced motion sensor, with some processing built in to distinguish between people, bikes, and cars. https://www.placemeter.com/faq https://www.placemeter.com/faq API: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11GVyJaKvCXPfhH70TkKo3-DdjsSrzaoYm3U00pswUy8/edit#heading=h.8wr4rugur1m8 https://docs.google.com/document/d/11GVyJaKvCXPfhH70TkKo3-Dd...
- hammeiam 11y agoYour links are busted on Chrome.
- DiabloD3 11y agoI can confirm this, too.