Solar Powered Traffic Monitoring

A Computer Engineering student's final year project at the University of Cypress uses a Raspberry Pi 5 (4GB) with a 720p webcam to count vehicular traffic, powered entirely off-grid by a 12V lead acid battery charged via a 100W solar panel. Vehicle detection relies on the YOLOv8 Nano model to draw bounding boxes around cars, trucks, buses, and motorcycles, with logic to avoid double-counting vehicles as they cross the frame. To conserve power, the builder disabled Bluetooth, PCIe, audio, and HDMI, underclocked the CPU/GPU, ran the Pi headless, and trimmed unnecessary parts of the video frame to cut compute load.

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