Abstract: A method for estimating the height of a reflector of a vehicle, the method including a reading step, in which at least one reflection signal from the reflector of the vehicle is read at one time and the at least one reflection signal representing at least one information item in respect of a relative speed of the vehicle. Further, the method includes a specifying step, in which an estimated value for the speed of the vehicle is specified. Finally, the method includes an ascertaining step, in which an estimated value for the height of the reflector is ascertained using the relative speed of the vehicle and the estimated value for the speed of the vehicle.

Abstract: A method for detecting a traffic law violation due to the allowable distance between a following vehicle and a guide vehicle being undershot, the following vehicle traveling behind the guide vehicle. At least the respective speed of the following vehicle is identified and the guide vehicle in a detection region in the surroundings of a sensor which supplies speed measurement values. A reference distance is detected and/or ascertained between the following vehicle and the guide vehicle at a reference measurement point. At least one following distance is determined between the following vehicle and the guide vehicle in the detection region using the identified speeds of the following vehicle and the guide vehicle and/or the detected reference distance. A traffic law violation is detected if the following distance in the detection region continuously falls short of a distance threshold.

Abstract: A method for traffic monitoring for a monitoring location. The method has a step of outputting a display signal to a user interface. The display signal displays at least one image symbol, relating to at least one configurable parameter of the traffic monitoring, in a combined overview for the monitoring location via the user interface. The at least one image symbol can be influenced by gestural interaction with a user in order to configure the at least one configurable parameter. The method also includes reading in a user input signal from the user interface. The user input signal represents an input by the user, made by gestural interaction with the at least one image symbol and recognized by gesture recognition, to configure the at least one parameter. The method configures the at least one configurable parameter depending on the user input signal in order to set up traffic monitoring.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method (500) for ascertaining an installation angle (?Install) between a roadway (170) on which a vehicle (100) travels and a detection direction (122) of a measurement or radar sensor (105). The method (500) has a step (510) of reading a plurality of reflection signals (125), each of which represents a measurement or radar beam (120) which has been emitted by a transmission unit (115) of the measurement or radar sensor (105) and each of which has been reflected on a different reflective section (130) of the vehicle (100). The reflection signals (125) have movement information on a movement direction of the vehicle (100) reflective section (130) on which the measurement or radar beam (120) has been reflected, and/or the reflection signals (125) have position information that represents the position (420) of the vehicle (100) reflective section (130) on which the measurement or radar beam (120) has been reflected.

Abstract: A method for recording a traffic situation when a vehicle drives past a recording device, the method includes reading in a first image which depicts the vehicle at a first point in time at a first position in an area surrounding the recording device and a second image which depicts the vehicle at a second point in time at a second position in the area surrounding the recording device. In addition, a step of sensing a speed of the vehicle at the first and/or second point in time and/or in a time interval between the first and/or second point in time is provided. Also provided is a step of storing the first image and the second image, the first and second points in time and/or a time period between the first and second points in time, as well as the speed of the vehicle as a traffic situation data set.

Abstract: A method for monitoring and/or detecting a sensor system of a vehicle comprises a step of identifying a parameter value using a response signal, and a step of determining a monitoring signal that can be allocated to the sensor system, said determination being carried out using the parameter value and a predetermined reaction value.

Abstract: The invention relates to a housing (102) for a mobile traffic monitoring device (104), wherein the housing (102) can be coupled to a carrier vehicle (200) via a fastening interface (108), and wherein the housing (102) is designed as a luggage transport rack.

Abstract: A method for operating a traffic monitoring device. A sensor signal is provided by a sensor device of the traffic monitoring device is first of all read in. An item of information is then generated using the sensor signal. Finally, the information is output to an interface to at least one vehicle.

Abstract: A method for estimating the height of a reflector of a vehicle, the method including a reading step, in which at least one reflection signal from the reflector of the vehicle is read at one time and the at least one reflection signal representing at least one information item in respect of a relative speed of the vehicle. Further, the method includes a specifying step, in which an estimated value for the speed of the vehicle is specified. Finally, the method includes an ascertaining step, in which an estimated value for the height of the reflector is ascertained using the relative speed of the vehicle and the estimated value for the speed of the vehicle.

Abstract: A traffic monitoring arrangement with a housing having a first housing component and at least a second housing component, wherein the traffic monitoring arrangement comprises a flexible stop means, by which the first housing component and the second housing component are connected to each other. Furthermore, the traffic monitoring arrangement comprises at least one predetermined breaking point which, with respect to a local connection region provided by the second housing component, on which the flexible stop means is fixed, is located on a side of the traffic monitoring arrangement facing away from the first housing component.

Abstract: A traffic monitoring system is provided. The traffic monitoring system comprises: a camera system configured to capture images of vehicles, the camera system comprising a first wireless time receiver configured to receive a wirelessly transmitted time signal; and a light system configured to selectively illuminate the vehicles, the light system being spaced apart from the camera system, wherein the light system comprises a second wireless time receiver configured to receive the wirelessly transmitted time signal such that the image capture by the camera system and the illumination by the light system is synchronized.

Abstract: A method for operating a traffic monitoring device. A sensor signal is provided by a sensor device of the traffic monitoring device is first of all read in. An item of information is then generated using the sensor signal. Finally, the information is output to an interface to at least one vehicle.

Abstract: A traffic monitoring system is provided. The traffic monitoring system comprises: a camera system configured to capture images of vehicles, the camera system comprising a first wireless time receiver configured to receive a wirelessly transmitted time signal; and a light system configured to selectively illuminate the vehicles, the light system being spaced apart from the camera system, wherein the light system comprises a second wireless time receiver configured to receive the wirelessly transmitted time signal such that the image capture by the camera system and the illumination by the light system is synchronised.

Abstract: A method for contact-free axle counting of a vehicle on a road, including a step of reading in first image data and reading in second image data, wherein the first image data and/or the second image data represent image data provided to an interface by an image data recording sensor arranged on a side of the road. The first image data and/or the second image data comprise an image of the vehicle. The first image data and/or the second image data is processed in order to obtain processed first image data and/or processed second image data. By using the first image data and/or the second image data in a substep of detecting, at least one object is detected in the first image data and/or the second image data, and wherein object information is provided representing the object and assigned to the first image data and/or the second image data.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a speed and a distance of at least one object with respect to a receiver of a reception signal. The apparatus has at least one interface for reading in at least one in-phase component and one quadrature component of a plurality of temporally successive reception signals each representing a signal which is reflected to the receiver at the object and was emitted at a predefined transmission frequency. The apparatus also has a unit for forming a first detection value and a unit for determining a second detection value and a unit for determining a speed, corresponding to a reference speed, of the object with respect to the receiver and the reference distance as the distance of the object with respect to the receiver using the first and second detection values.

Abstract: A method for aligning a measuring device installed alongside a roadway at an unknown installation height, the measuring device including a laser scanner, a camera and a display. A camera image generated by the camera is inserted into the display and superimposed by a road model, formed from a multiplicity of straight lines running towards an intersection point. The measuring device is subsequently rotated and tilted, as a result of which the camera image is rotated and shifted on the display, until the images of the roadway margins and edges running parallel thereto are in alignment at the intersection point.

Abstract: A device for a system for traffic monitoring of vehicles in road traffic, the device having a first mounting frame and a second mounting frame, which can be secured relative to each other by inner fixing elements. At least the first mounting frame has a cylindrical, especially cuboidal, shape. At least one device for recording a traffic situation can be disposed or is disposed in the first mounting frame and wherein at least the first mounting frame is accessible from four sides.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method and an arrangement for detecting a traffic violation in a traffic light zone through rear end measurement by a FMCW radar device. For this purpose, a vehicle driving through a radar beam of a FMCW radar device, whose first outer edge beam horizontally forms an obtuse angle with the roadway edge, is measured at its front end, flank and rear end. The vehicle length is determined from the obtained measurement signals and added to the specific radial distance of the vehicle, which is determined close to a stop line through the vehicle rear, and a prediction is made based on the vehicle speed about the vehicle front driving over the stop line.

Abstract: A method for detecting a traffic violation in a traffic light zone through rear end measurement by a FMCW radar device (1). A specific position (sP1) assigned to the front of a vehicle (3) and the radial velocity are derived from the measurement signal obtained at a first measurement time (t1), and a first anticipated position (eP1) for the front of the vehicle is calculated by the distance-time rule at the second measurement time (t2) by means of the time period between the first measurement time (t1) and the second measurement time (t2). Through repeated calculation of an anticipated position for the front of the vehicle at further measurement times, an anticipated time when the front of the vehicle crosses a stop line (5) defining the traffic light zone is predicted iteratively with the determined vehicle velocity.

Abstract: A method for classifying vehicles in which an angle-resolving radar device yields measurement signals which have frequencies corresponding to a Doppler shift and which originate from measured vehicles and from which radial distances, object angles and radial velocities can be derived. The frequencies of the acquired measurement signals are stored as functions over the measurement time period, and a spectrogram is formed for every vehicle therefrom. Subsequently, the spectrograms are checked for assessment regions with maximum bandwidth of the frequency. These assessment regions are compared with assessment regions of stored spectrograms for different vehicle classes and associated with the most similar such that the measured vehicles are classified.