THE ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION HAS EMPLOYED A SYSTEM WITH 90 FLIR THERMAL CAMERAS IN PHOENIX TO DETECT WRONG-WAY DRIVERS AND REDUCE CASUALTIES.
How to set up your FLIR FX camera 5.3 FLIR FX Android™ tablet setup 1. Download the FLIR FX app from the Google Play Store. Connect the included USB cable to the power adapter. Connect the other end of the USB cable to the camera or camera stand and connect the power adapter to a power outlet. Page 29 How to set up your FLIR FX camera 4. FlyCapture2 SDK —contains utilities to configure the camera such as Driver Control GUI, update firmware and drivers, and check setup. As well, contains the FlyCapture2 API for use in creating your own applications. FLIR USB 3.1 Technology The type of data transfer that our USB 3.1 cameras use is bulk transfer. The FLIR PathFindIR II Thermal Night Vision System helps you see road hazards in total darkness, alerting you when vehicles, people, or animals are nearby. These Thermal Imaging Cameras by FLIR Systems detects a heat signature through dust, smoke, or fog without needing any light, allowing you to see up to four times farther on the road than average headlights.
Crashes caused by wrong-way drivers kill up to 400 people in the United States annually, on average, representing approximately one percent of the total number of traffic-related fatalities each year. Although this is a relatively small percentage, wrong-way driving crashes are often head-on collisions, and therefore tend to be more severe than other types of crashes.
“Wrong-way driver crashes are often head-on collisions, and
therefore, tend to be more severe than other types of crashes.”
Impaired driving
Research shows that wrong-way driving is mainly the result of reckless driving behavior, which includes impaired driving, distracted driving, and driving while fatigued. Most incidents involve a vehicle entering an exit ramp, often due to unclear signage or a driver’s unfamiliarity with a city. Wrong-way collisions are also more likely to occur at night.
Thermal-based wrong-way driver detection
Preventing wrong-way driving collisions is no easy task. Traffic authorities in the United States have been taking a variety of measures, with varying degrees of success, including better traffic signage and road markings. More and more traffic agencies are also using dynamic incident detection and signaling to detect wrong-way drivers right at the highway’s entry point. Thermal imaging cameras, combined with smart video analytics, are the most effective detection technology. They can also detect the presence of wrong-way vehicles at night and in adverse weather conditions, which are the times when wrong-way collisions are most likely to happen.
Arizona utilizes FLIR cameras
In 2017, the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) installed 90 FLIR thermal cameras along a 15-mile stretch of Interstate 17 as part of an enhanced wrong-way driver detection system in north Phoenix. The FLIR cameras detect wrong-way drivers on off-ramps and on the mainline.
The ADOT system takes a three-phase approach when a wrong-way vehicle is detected: alerting wrong-way drivers so they can self-correct, warning right-way drivers, and notifying law enforcement. The system also includes a computerized decision support system and specialized background-illuminated wrong-way signs that light up in order to grab the attention of wrong-way drivers. By January 2019, ADOT reported the I-17 system had already successfully detected 45 wrong-way drivers without incident.
“ By January 2019, ADOT reported the I-17 system had
already successfully detected 45 wrong-way drivers without incident.”
Low-maintenance and affordability
An added benefit of FLIR thermal cameras is that they are maintenance-friendly and cost-effective. And above all, the technology succeeds in reducing the false alarm rate to a minimum by only detecting actual wrong-way drivers.
Thermal imaging cameras cannot prevent impaired drivers from getting behind the wheel or stop all wrong-way crashes, but they can reduce the risk of serious crashes by alerting law enforcers more quickly than waiting for 911 calls from other motorists.
'Thermal cameras can alert law enforcers more quickly
than waiting for 911 calls from other motorists.”
Hello,
I'm trying to build the ros-drivers/flir_camera_driver package, however I have been running into the below error. I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 on an ARM64 system (Nvidia TX2). I have also tried building the ETH ASL fork of this driver with the same error as well as both of these on my desktop without any luck.
Would anyone have any ideas on what is going wrong/how I might fix it?
I've tried posting on the flir_camera_driver github page, however haven't been able to get any help yet there. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm quite stuck currently and have spent days trying to work this out.Thanks :)
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This looks me to like a linking error, in the CMakeLists I see a call for ${Spinnaker_LIBRARIES} in the linking for the library, but perhaps there's an issue with that library being installed altogether - I see the find_package fails silently. try changing quiet to REQUIRED and see if it fails on just finding the package
Hi Steve, thanks for the reply.I tried that, however I get the same error.I also tried uninstalling the Spinnaker SDK (https://flir.app.boxcn.net/v/Spinnake...) and cleaning/rebuilding. I get different errors without it installed, so I believe it is finding them.
I can run the 'spinview' program from the SDK install successfully and access the camera with that, however still having trouble getting the ros driver to build.
Hi Sk12, I have a similar problem trying to run the flir_camera_driver with my Chameleon 3 cameras. Did you find the solution? These is one of the errors:
Drivers Flir Cameras Camera
Any help will be welcome!