Measuring sports use in public spaces.
How do we make sports use of public space transparent?
Sports and exercise in public spaces are increasing, especially by COVID-19. But where, how much and when are walking trails or parks used, for example? These are data that policymakers would like to have insight into. Why? Because it can say something about, for example, the vitality of residents, the appeal to tourism and the manner and extent of recreation in public space. And there are opportunities to get even more people moving!
So Sportinnovator came up with a challenge: develop a solution to make data on sporting use of public space transparent. We got the itch and of course we see great opportunities in this!
The Luistervinq
The Luistervinq: it looks like a perfectly ordinary birdhouse, but nothing could be further from the truth. The solution can be unobtrusively placed at various spots in public space, to monitor sports use at that specific spot based on audio devices and AI algorithms. In this way, presence and classification of use (is cycling or walking?) can be determined. All of this is, of course, completely privacy-proof. We will start development in 2021 and hope to deliver the solution by the end of this year.
User Groups
The development of the solution the Luistervinq is a result of a consortium in which Datacadabra is the initiator and is working on the development of the solution. University of Twente fulfills the role of Technical Supervision and makes an important contribution with the classification models for the audio data. In addition, the parties MarketingOost, Municipality of Losser, Recreational Area Het Hulsbeek, Routenetwerken Twente and other partner municipalities participate as part of the user group: they oversee the development and provide advice in where the need lies to promote the sporty use of public space. This Twente cooperation aims to play a pioneering role in monitoring the sportive use of this public space and thus to be an example for the Netherlands.
