Autostrada BS-VR-VI-PD SpA participated in the Meridian project leading the development and the implementation of a new, evolved, traffic counting and classification system. This specific subproject involves the physical installation of dedicated hardware sensors along the managed road infrastructure and the development of a sophisticate software environment.

The works along the road have seen the installation of a major quantity of multi-lane, transversal radar sensors. Considering every couple of consecutive tolling station or interconnection, it has been installed at least one transversal radar. In addition to them, a frontal radar sensor has been tested as experimentation, concluding that in motorway application a transversal sensor seems to be more efficient. In addition to the radars, combined cameras which houses both thermal and visual sensors, have been installed in order to provide video combined streaming to the Artificial Intelligence Engine.

Autostrada BS-VR_VI-PD SpA also owns a “Weight in Motion” plant, made near Garda Lake during a previous project, which can produce precise traffic data. For this reason, it has been integrated in the counting and classification environment within the Meridian Project.

The central software environment has been developed using cutting edge technologies, such as kafka datalake ingestion engines, data optimization and cloud processing. The data visualization layer is available on the company Power BI instance. A couple of separate Artificial Intelligence engines perform the real time processing of the video streaming produced by the cameras, in order to provide advanced vehicle classification.