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		io_io on Jan 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Count the people around you by monitoring wifi sig... A very common way of measuring traffic volumes is via bluetooth MAC address broadcasts. The Wisconsin DOT even makes the traffic counts derived from this data interactive and public: https://wisdot.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?...

acct1771 on Jan 17, 2019 | [–]

Interesting....evermore vehicles being BT enabled == traffic's always increasing?!

Sounds like great job security for DOTs.

zachwill on Jan 17, 2019 | [–]

Wow, had no idea about this. Thanks for sharing!

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