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Rail Vehicle Detection Enabling Adaptive Device Free Crowd Size Estimation in Subway Stations

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In order to enable reliable device free crowd size estimation at subway platforms during the stop and boarding time of underground rail transit systems, knowledge regarding whether or not a rail vehicle is present at the platform is crucial. To accommodate this need, we developed a low-cost battery-powered sensor node capable of detecting the presence of a rail vehicle in a subway station. We make use of two infrared laser-based time-of-flight (ToF) sensors installed at both the ingress and egress tunnel of a subway station. Due to this dual sensor approach, we are able to filter out and signal anomalous events such as a human walking past the sensor. We deployed the system at a subway station to benchmark its accuracy and found the implemented algorithms to be effective at filtering out false positives. However, recall rates are limited between 75 and 80% due to issues originating in the wireless communication stack. This demonstrates the feasibility of rail vehicle detection using ToF sensors in order to improve our device free crowd size estimation.

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Janssens, R., Berkvens, R., Hellinckx, P., Denis, S. (2023). Rail Vehicle Detection Enabling Adaptive Device Free Crowd Size Estimation in Subway Stations. In: Barolli, L. (eds) Advances on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing. 3PGCIC 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 571. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19945-5_26

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