The University of Texas System

Southwest Research Institute

Samer Dessouky

Sara Ahmed

Jerome A Helffrich

Gopal Vishwakarma

Ayetullah Baha Biten

Zachary Balcar

Mohamadreza Khalili

Athanassios Thomas Papagiannakis

Aspects of self-powered weigh-in-motion systems and methods that utilize piezoelectric components for sensing load as well as powering data acquisition and analysis components. In one example, the weigh-in-motion system includes a number of piezoelectric stacks, each stack including a number of piezoelectric elements. Each stack includes one or more top or upper piezoelectric element that provides vehicle sensing data. Each stack also includes a set of piezoelectric elements used for energy harvesting. The sensing piezoelectric elements are connected to a data input of a microcontroller for vehicle classification, while the energy harvesting piezoelectric elements are connected to a power input of the microcontroller.

Self-powered weigh-in-motion system

The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for passive infrared sensing and detection of vehicular traffic. Vehicle parameters are detected using thermal detection states of pixels of an infrared array sensor. The vehicle parameters can include a velocity of a vehicle. A vehicle record that includes the vehicle parameters can be provided, for example, by a computing device in connection with the infrared array sensor.

Passive infrared sensing and detection for traffic

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Helotes, TX, United States of America

Samer Dessouky