OpenDataCam

2018 Apr

Fully assembled Open Data Cam with a NVIDIA Jetson TX2 GPU Board

Fully assembled Open Data Cam with a NVIDIA Jetson TX2 GPU Board

Rain tight housing based on a sheet polypropylen and cardboard

Rain tight housing based on a sheet polypropylen and cardboard

Fully assembled Open Data Cam with a NVIDIA Jetson TX2 GPU Board

Fully assembled Open Data Cam with a NVIDIA Jetson TX2 GPU Board

Rain tight housing based on a sheet polypropylen and cardboard

Rain tight housing based on a sheet polypropylen and cardboard

Concept & Idea

Benedikt Groß, Markus Kreutzer, Raphael Reimann

Software Engineering

Thibault Durant, Thomas Derleth, Marco Biedermann, Joey Lee, MESO Digital Interiors

Product Design

Olivier Brückner

“OpenDataCam” is a tool that helps to quantify the world. The best thing about it: You can make it yourself! With computer vision OpenDataCam understands and quantifies what it sees. The simple setup allows everybody to become an urban data miner.

OpenDataCam can help cities become smarter. One way of understanding smart cities is the combination of urban areas and emerging technology. Open Data Cam can help cities (via its citizens, institutions, scientists and decision makers) to make more sense of its surroundings, by using data points created from live recording.

OpenDataCam runs on a NVIDIA Jetson TX2 GPU Board and other off-the-shelf equipment (~$500). All software is based on open source components and runs completely local. The current setup is optimised for a “smart traffic cam” setup detecting & counting traffic participants. The project follows the “release early” philosophy and should be considered as an alpha release.

Project Site
Open Data Cam on Github
DIY. All materials needed to build your own Open Data Cam

DIY. All materials needed to build your own Open Data Cam

How do I make my own?