The city of Colorado Springs, CO is installing 26 multi-modal sensors in its

downtown corridor to collect foot and vehicle traffic data.

The sensors, also called multimodal counters, detect and categorize moving
objects -such as pedestrians, bicycles, cars, trucks, and buses - but do not collect
personally identifiable information. Each moving object is counted with
information on direction of travel, date, time stamp, and mode of transportation.

The sensors are provided by Numina, which states that it specializes in the
computer vision-sensor solution to measure where and how things move at street
level: "intelligence without surveillance."

The collected data is expected to benefit stakeholders, including: downtown

businesses, and the city's departments of traffic engineering, economic
development, planning, and parks - all with the goal of improving city life for
residents and visitors.

“Stakeholders expressed their desire to collect better data on how many people
are traveling through these areas of the city and how people are getting there,”
Colorado Springs Office of Innovation Manager, Carlos Tamayo said.

The plan is to move sensors to new locations after one year for a total of seven to
10 years, which is the lifespan of the technology.

"The city needs more multimodal data for traffic operations, the ability to provide
data to potential and current businesses, and for gaining general knowledge
about the use of public parks, trails, and public rights of way," said Tamayo. "We
hope that the sensors enable many data-driven decisions to be made for each of
our stakeholders through the years."