# Welcome to smart city traffic monitoring

## Welcome to smart city traffic monitoring

### Overview

[TrafficMonitor.ai](https://www.trafficmonitor.ai/), the Traffic Monitor, is an open source smart city traffic monitoring software built with commodity hardware to capture holistic roadway usage. Utilizing edge machine learning object detection and Doppler radar, it counts pedestrians, bicycles, and cars and measures vehicle speeds.

## Welcome to smart city traffic monitoring

### Overview

[TrafficMonitor.ai](https://www.trafficmonitor.ai/), the Traffic Monitor, is an open source smart city traffic monitoring software built with commodity hardware to capture holistic roadway usage. Utilizing edge machine learning object detection and Doppler radar, it counts pedestrians, bicycles, and cars and measures vehicle speeds.

Find our website at [trafficmonitor.ai](https://www.trafficmonitor.ai) to sign up for the newsletter.

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Our mission is to *democratize the power of AI tools* to *improve community safety and quality of life* through the *ethical and transparent use of these capabilities*.

### Get Started

The Traffic Monitor software and hardware are open source and available for anyone to build, modify, improve, and contribute back. We welcome your ideas and contributions at the [Traffic Monitor GitHub](https://github.com/glossyio/traffic-monitor) repository! Find our website at [trafficmonitor.ai](https://www.trafficmonitor.ai) to sign up for the newsletter.

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Our mission is to *democratize the power of AI tools* to *improve community safety and quality of life* through the *ethical and transparent use of these capabilities*.

### Get Started

The Traffic Monitor software and hardware are open source and available for anyone to build, modify, improve, and contribute back. We welcome your ideas and contributions at the [Traffic Monitor GitHub](https://github.com/glossyio/traffic-monitor) repository!

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a href="getting-started">Getting Started</a></td><td>Start counting!</td><td></td><td><a href="getting-started">getting-started</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="help-and-faq/frequently-asked-questions">Help &#x26; FAQ</a></td><td>Find answers to common issues In addition to <a href="https://github.com/glossyio/traffic-monitor/discussions">discussions</a>, <a href="https://github.com/glossyio/traffic-monitor/issues">issues</a>, and <a href="https://trafficmonitor.zulipchat.com/">chat</a>.</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="development/contributing">Contribute</a></td><td>Contribute back to the open source project</td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Thank You 🩵

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### Thank You 🩵

Made possible thanks to these incredible, unaffiliated projects: Made possible thanks to these incredible, unaffiliated projects:

* [Frigate NVR project](https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate) (core Object Detection application)
* [Node-RED](https://nodered.org/) (low-code programming environment)
* [Zulip](https://zulip.com/) for hosting the [Traffic Monitor chat](https://trafficmonitor.zulipchat.com/)

We also have integration with the open source [ThingsBoard](https://thingsboard.io/) IoT Platform to monitor your device(s) and share data.