Vehicle Detection & Counting

The number of vehicles at a place is one of the most direct observable proxies for what is happening there: cars in a retail park, lorries at a distribution centre or a border crossing, plant on a construction site, vehicles staged at a port. Counted once it is a curiosity. Counted repeatedly it becomes a time series that says whether a site is busier than it was last quarter, with nobody on the ground.

The service works over site polygons the customer defines or the platform derives: car parks, yards, staging areas, road segments. Within them it locates vehicle-like objects and, where they resolve individually, counts them and separates light from heavy. Where they do not resolve individually it measures the aggregate instead (how much of the mapped area is occupied, and at what density) which keeps the indicator continuous rather than leaving a gap whenever the available imagery is coarser.