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DigiPlay: Interactive playground

By Gustell Preston, Noah Johnson, Stephanie Cheng and Shreya Bansal Acknowledgement This project would not come to fruition without the invaluable mentorship and support of our instructor, Professor Allison Lassiter, and our peers in the CPLN571 Sensing the City class (Spring 2023). We are grateful to have our idea published. Overview This is an interactive […]

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TUTORIALS

Induction Loop Detector for Counting Vehicles Entering and Leaving a Section of Street

Overview This is one of the tutorial for the project ‘Smart Parking Philadelphia’, which is aiming to provide real-time parking information for the drivers in Philadelphia to help them make the decision more easily for parking in Center City. In this tutorial, the induction loop will be introduced which is responsible for counting the vehicles […]

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LoSIMS

Local-scale Stormwater Inlet Monitoring System Aaron Katz, Jie Li, Zoe Kerrich Overview LoSIMS, a local-scale stormwater infrastructure monitoring system, provides an opportunity to address street flooding with a low-cost, distributed sensor network implemented in stormwater inlets across Philadelphia. Philadelphia has significant problems with stormwater management – and the city chose over a decade ago to […]