Our local community would like to count how many vehicles are using our single track rural road (high hundreds at peak time).
Looking for simple robust solution.
Apologies if posted in wrong forum, into ebikes, polytunnels and simple hydroponics, all linked to small solar power, now Arduino comes along and just do not have time to do it all plus 2 jobs.
Solution is to dig into my pocket and give money to get solution, or wait for local bureaucracy to help which will take up so much of my time and my well-being. I have ordered up Arduino Uno just to self learn, every day should be a school day.
Hope that gives enough information for someone to take up this gig, wanting to put something back in.
Drive on road daily, not a "rural" road like a dirt track, its a Scottish rural road which means badly maintained with passing places which visitors park up in and we end up with grid lock due to lack of respect and common sense.
Battery power.
Data retrieved by opening box up, blue tooth, WiFi
Just learnt about Arduino when we started to see if we could log vehicle usage, seems ideal match, time and learning curve to self learn is an option, but would mean giving something else up or dig into my pocket, basically I am buying time and knowledge if affordable.
Seen a simple design using a rubber pipe, good option, simple to build, but putting a physical "object" on road would need "approval"
Laser not an option as the beam could be classed as a danger.
OK I know what I do not want to use, fantastic simple designs out there to do so much, I am sure there is a simple solution, counting moving objects can not be that difficult. Willing to be proved wrong.
Simple counter to begin with, through development stages add time and date stamp and even linking it to a weather station.
Talk can be done by anyone, so a simple counter would be the first step. Many thanks for the input, its directing me to a positive result.
It will, of course, respond to pedestrians, highland cows etc., but so will most methods. If you can't lay the rubber pipe, then I think the radar module is a good thing to check out.
Thank you
Depends where the counter is to get access to WiFi and or 4GEE, everyone's input is greatly appreciated, got someone from the community to design a simple counter to start with, got to say Arduino has blown my mind in what it can do, got to be realistic and concentrate on my other projects and accept the way forward on this one is to spend money if I want results. Thank you all again.
Honestly, I think one of the most underrated benefits of the popularity of Arduino is that a large number of non-technical people now have a better understanding of just how much work goes into designing a working product.
Ultra sonic distance sensor. Cheap, and simple as falling off log to use. Put it in a mailbox with a hole in the end. Run the data into an SD card so your leaning curve is smaller and faster than dealing with WiFi.