History of AISP

In 2020, I met Polish General Traffic Survey (GPR) for the first time and asked one fundamental question.

😲 "Why hasn't anyone automated this yet?"

Historically, traffic measurements were carried out by observers (initially road workers and bridge supervisors). more). There were many attempts to automate traffic measurements (rubber hoses, photocells, etc.), but they were characterized by errors (e.g. light vehicles were lost). 

For many years, Polish General Traffic Survey (GPR) was based on observers - people who, with a paper sheet in hand, stood by the road for many hours and marked each categorized vehicle!

In GPR2020, one method dominated, based on the use of a camera and human work. And this method is...

Road traffic was recorded 24 hours a day by a camera on an SD card. After removing the stand, the video was downloaded and distributed to observers. This method had advantages, for example

• Verifiability. The client could receive video recordings and verify them with the results.

• Observers did not have to go into the field and be exposed to weather conditions.

• When working at home with a film, they could rewind it and count more precisely.

It was better, but it wasn't perfect. This work model was still associated with

• Maintaining a large team of observers (especially during UPR).

• Human errors (e.g. confusing relationships), as fatigue and hours of watching the film affected the quality!

• Poor category recognition! People often confused difficult categories (e.g. delivery buses with windows).

• No punctuality! Observers often submitted results at the last minute.

August 2020
The first step is to teach Artificial Intelligence to recognize vehicle categories from GPR measurement. Several months of work allowed us to obtain satisfactory results! We started with 8 GPR classes, then expanded to 5 more for SCPR measurements. Currently, AI recognizes 22 classes consistent with the extended GPR classification.

December 2020
First success! A version of the AITracker system is being developed, which counts cross-sections of two-way roads with an average accuracy of 97%. We have our own object tracking algorithm - VRT!
Green light to start a startup!

May 2021

AISP officially starts its business activity. Commercialization of the solution. The first version of AITrackerGui, a measurement configuration tool, is being created. 

August 2021

We are introducing the service of sectional speed measurement from a video.

👉 The first video speed measurement in Lubecko - the results were published with the consent of the district office in Lubliniec.

👉 Video presenting the service

November 2021
For the first time in history, we count intersections and small roundabouts with an accuracy of 85%. We conduct tests and suggest clients to mount a 4-5m high camera to improve the quality of the results.

👉 Video presenting the service.

January 2022

We are expanding our activities to foreign markets. Thanks to the commercial work and research done by Marcin Brzezin.

April 2022

We present a new service, ALPR, i.e. automatic license plate reading

👉 Video presenting the service.

👉 The first ALPR measurement in Lubecko  - the results were published with the consent of the district office in Lubliniec.

September 2022

We have adapted our license plate recognition service to measure parking lot fill. The camera is located inside a moving vehicle, records the road with a wide-angle lens and recognizes all parked vehicles and plates.

December 2022

AITracker-Gui version 1.6 is available for customers. The extensive interface and possibilities allow you to: 

• Built-in traffic charts by relationship, category and section.

• Reporting and reclassification of results.

• Errata, i.e. the ability to manually correct the results.

March 2023

In accordance with the new guidelines of the Ministry of Infrastructure, we are expanding the categories of vehicles and pedestrians to include a2.scooters, a3.uto and i2.pedestrians with needs, and i3.uwr.

June 2023

While collaborating on cordon measurements, we created a built-in tool for automatically combining license plate results from several traffic measurements. In the "Traffic Designer" you will load each cordon measurement and then create the resulting transit sheet.

July 2023

Our VRT vehicle and people counting algorithm has been improved to achieve an even higher accuracy of 93% for intersections and roundabouts. 

September 2023

Version 1.7 of AITracker appears on the market with a new, simple interface and access to the AISP cloud. From now on, customers can fully automatically order measurements to servers available 24 hours a day.

January 2024

AISP joins the capital group Software Interactive and becomes a limited liability company This is not only an honor, but also a fantastic opportunity to scale our traffic AI solutions on a global scale!

👉 Find out more about our partner www.softint.pl