Pedestrian Counts News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Transportation counts pedestrians around the city. they sent people twice a year and they just sit there with downers. it doesn't give us a view of what it is like day in, day out. >> they're trying to change that by providing a real-time picture of new york's pedestrian traffic using hundreds of existing video feeds around the city. >> computer vision algorithms that make it possible to detect and count people. >> using video feeds it counts about 10 million people a day. they can even count how many people are inside a building. the city is already using the data providing pedestrian counts ...

Million people a day. they can even count how many people are inside a building. the city's already using the data, providing pedestrian counts to small business owners in the city's online business atlas. there's promising potential for data integration with consumer apps. >> if our data was instead of yelp or google maps, you could set up an alert telling you that restaurant that you wanted to try but is always packed that right now is the right time to go. >> reporter: today the company only covers 25% of the city. to help count the rest, place meter is offering to pay residents to stream v...

Feeds around the city. >> we layer in computer vision algorithms that make it possible to detect and count people. >> reporter: using online traffic video feeds, it tracks about 10 million people a day. they can even count how many people are inside a building. the city is already using the data, providing pedestrian counts to small business owners in the city's online business atlas. and there is promising potential for integration with consumer apps. >> if our data was instead of yelp or google maps, you could set up an alert telling you that restaurant you always wanted to try but is always...