Development of a 5G-Connected Ultra-Wideband Radar Platform for Traffic Monitoring in a Campus Environment

[EN] This paper presents the design, implementation, and testing of a traffic monitoring platform based on 5G-connected Ultra-Wideband (UWB) radars deployed on a university campus. The development of both connected radars and an IoT platform is detailed. The connected radars integrate commercial com...

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Autores: Martín-Sacristán, David|||0000-0002-7781-557X, Ravelo, Carlos, Trelis, Pablo, Ortiz, Miriam, Fuentes, Manuel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:dnet:riunet______::1c12fb7b1746251719ea37513bc3e21e
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/235483
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Traffic monitoring
UWB
Radar
5G
IoT platform
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Sumario:[EN] This paper presents the design, implementation, and testing of a traffic monitoring platform based on 5G-connected Ultra-Wideband (UWB) radars deployed on a university campus. The development of both connected radars and an IoT platform is detailed. The connected radars integrate commercial components, including a Raspberry Pi (RPi), a UWB radar, a standard enclosure, and a custom communication board featuring a 5G module. The IoT platform, which receives data from the radars via MQTT, is scalable, easily deployable, and supports radar management, data visualization, and external data access via an API. The solution was deployed and tested on campus, demonstrating real-time operation over a commercial 5G network with an estimated median latency between the radar and server of 75 ms. A preliminary evaluation conducted on a single radar during peak-hour traffic on a double-lane road, representing a challenging scenario, indicated a high detection rate of 94.81%, a low false detection rate of 1.02%, a high classification accuracy of 97.29%, and a high direction accuracy of 99.66%. These results validate the system's capability to deliver accurate traffic monitoring.