Smart city uses technology to reduce economic costs of congestion, improve air quality and road safety. Challenge Aligned to the Department for Transport’s national initiative intended to help “solve local transport issues”, Sunderland City Council hopes the use of technology can help reduce costs to the economy resulting from congestion – as well as refiningRead More
Introduction You are reading the first ever blog post from the Viva research team! We will introduce the team and the role our solutions play in Viva’s goals to understand & manage traffic. Smart Sensing in Real Environments Machine learning on a dataset that is finite and never evolves is straightforward. However, dealing with dynamicRead More
Introduction We have released a new analysis of social distancing adherence to support researchers, local authorities, and government in decision-making around relaxation of current Covid-19 rules. There are widespread concerns about the economic impact of the UK’s current social distancing rules, intended to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus. With countries such as FranceRead More
Viva have been awarded a grant from Innovate UK for their work in support of UK councils to monitor anonymous social distancing via camera feeds across 16 of the UK’s towns and cities. Since the Government announced the Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020, and the associated social distancing measures, there has been a need toRead More
We have leveraged Viva’s existing sensor network, which uses AI on camera-based sensors, to gather data on flows of different classes of road user,including pedestrians, throughout the COVID-19 pendemic. These sensors are now installed in cities across the UK, providing a broad baseline for statistical analysis. Our sensors already gather data on the paths thatRead More
Examining the impact of Covid-19 on traffic flow in Cambridge. Throughout the pandemic Viva have been supporting clients and partners to improve understanding about the impact on transport modes usage and and traffic movement in towns and cities. Cambridge County Council has multiple Viva sensors installed across the city to monitor traffic flows. Michael Stevens,Read More