A technological proposal for vehicle detection in the context of Smart Cities

’Smart Cities’ refers to a type of urban development based on sustainability whose purpose is to improve the quality of life. This concept combines a series of technologies to help solve some of a city’s problems. One of these many problems is traffic congestion, but unfortunately, many cities do not have decision-support systems, or systems that capture and process real-time data on traffic concentration. This research paper presents a technological proposal for vehicle detection in the context of Smart Cities, with the purpose of counting vehicles per unit of time and determining saturation. This proposal has proven to be simple and easy to implement. Preliminary results show that it is possible to identify vehicles without considering complex solutions, and whose vehicle concentration information provides the base information for vehicle control decision making.