Show HN: A solar-powered, privacy-preserving vehicle counter (Pi 5 and YOLOv8)

Category: ai-ml

Tags: computer-vision, edge-computing, yolov8, kalman-filter, privacy

Score: 5.8/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 6, Documentation: 6, Utility: 6)

A solar-powered, privacy-preserving vehicle counter using Raspberry Pi 5 and YOLOv8, with a TypeScript implementation for tracking and direction classification. It combines edge AI, Kalman filtering, and IoU tracking to count vehicles without compromising privacy, and stores data in a remote MySQL database.

Target audience: transportation planners, smart city developers, edge AI enthusiasts

Repository: https://www.mch170.com/projects/traffic_monitoring · TypeScript · Apache-2.0 · 149 stars

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