{"id":4337,"date":"2019-11-01T09:07:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T09:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4337"},"modified":"2019-11-01T09:07:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T09:07:26","slug":"differentiating-between-vehicles-and-pedestrians-using-bluetooth-sensing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/differentiating-between-vehicles-and-pedestrians-using-bluetooth-sensing\/","title":{"rendered":"Differentiating Between Vehicles and Pedestrians Using Bluetooth Sensing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Javier Mart\u00ednez Plum\u00e9, Juan Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00e9nez Dur\u00e1, Ram\u00f3n Vicente Cirilo Gimeno, Francisco Ram\u00f3n Soriano Garc\u00eda and Antonio Garc\u00eda Celda of Universitat de Valencia, Spain have a recent paper on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Evaluation of the Use of a City Center through the Use of Bluetooth Sensors Network (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2071-1050\/11\/4\/1002\/htm\" target=\"_blank\">Evaluation of the Use of a City Center through the Use of Bluetooth Sensors Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The research looks into using the occurrences of detected Bluetooth MAC addresses to differentiate between vehicles and pedestrians. It&#8217;s based on a study that was carried out in the city of Valencia that presented significant complexity due to the large number of pedestrians and motor vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Conditions sometimes cause travel times between pedestrians and vehicles to be very close or overlapping, making it impossible to distinguish between trips associated with a pedestrian or with a vehicle by just using travel times&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"616\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/traveltime-1024x616.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/traveltime-1024x616.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/traveltime-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/traveltime-768x462.png 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/traveltime-1200x722.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The researchers implemented a filtering algorithm for the classification of trips so as to distinguish between pedestrians and vehicles using the occurrences of detected MAC addresses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The results of the study found that 60\u201370% of the vehicles, in a given itinerary, used the historic centre as a shortcut through the city. These findings caused the City Council of Valencia to take the decision of limiting the traffic speed in the historic centre to 30 km\/h so as to encourage use of the city inner ring road where 50 km\/h is allowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sensing such as this is part of &#8216;Smart Cities&#8217;, with aims such as reducing pollution, easing traffic and encouraging walking and cycling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Javier Mart\u00ednez Plum\u00e9, Juan Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00e9nez Dur\u00e1, Ram\u00f3n Vicente Cirilo Gimeno, Francisco Ram\u00f3n Soriano Garc\u00eda and Antonio Garc\u00eda Celda of Universitat de Valencia, Spain have a recent paper on Evaluation of the Use of a City Center through the Use of Bluetooth Sensors Network. The research looks into using the occurrences of detected Bluetooth MAC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/differentiating-between-vehicles-and-pedestrians-using-bluetooth-sensing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Differentiating Between Vehicles and Pedestrians Using Bluetooth Sensing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4341,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions\/4341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}