Traffic Monitoring Object Detection and Tracking Reference Design Using Millimeter Wave Radar Sensors

This reference design demonstrates how our single-chip millimeter wave (mmWave) technology can be leveraged for reliable long-distance sensing in traffic monitoring and other applications. This reference design can use the IWR1642BOOST Evaluation Module (EVM) or the IWR1843BOOST Evaluation Module (EVM) and integrate the complete radar processing chain onto the IWR1642, IWR6843 or IWR8143 device. The processing chain includes analog radar configuration, analog-to-digital converter (ADC) capture, low-level FFT processing, and high-level clustering and tracking algorithms. This reference design is designed to be built on top of our mmWave SDK for a centralized software experience that includes APIs, libraries and tools for evaluation, development and data visualization.

characteristic

• ● Demonstrate environmentally reliable object detection, clustering and tracking using our single-chip mmWave sensors
• ● Measurement bandwidth up to 4GHz
• ● Integrated digital signal processor (DSP) clusters objects and tracks their distance and speed over time
• ● Millimeter wave sensor accurately determines object position within a 100° field of view and a distance of 5m to 180m
• ● Extended 3D sensing capabilities using the 3TX antenna on the IWR1843BOOST or IWR6843BOOST EVM