Distributed Road Intelligence

Roads That Sense.

Real-time traffic intelligence from the road itself.

Motsense transforms road infrastructure into a distributed sensing network capable of converting physical road activity into actionable traffic data.

Road-mounted sensing
LoRaWAN connectivity
Cloud & API
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How Motsense Works

From road activity to actionable intelligence.

Intelligence begins at the road surface. Every stage in the pipeline is engineered for latency, resilience, and precision — so a physical event becomes a structured data record in seconds.

  1. 01
    physical event
    Vehicle
    A car, truck, motorcycle, or bus travels over the road.
  2. 02
    vibration signal
    Road Surface
    Wheel loads generate a distinct mechanical signature in the pavement.
  3. 03
    capture
    Motsense Sensor
    A road-mounted device captures the vibration in real time.
  4. 04
    on-device
    Edge Processing
    On-device signal processing extracts detection, speed, and class.
  5. 05
    wireless uplink
    LoRaWAN
    Compact packets transmit over long-range low-power radio.
  6. 06
    ingest + enrich
    Motsense Cloud
    Events are enriched, normalized, and made queryable.
  7. 07
    consume
    API / Dashboard
    Available as REST, streams, or a live operational dashboard.
What Motsense Provides

Turn physical traffic into structured data.

Every vehicle passing a Motsense sensor produces a rich, developer-consumable record — not a proprietary blob. Detect, estimate, classify, and analyze without cameras at every location.

detected
Vehicle Detection
Detected
Presence + count
speed_kmh
Speed Estimation
56.7 km/h
Per-vehicle instantaneous
direction
Direction
Eastbound
Directional bin
vehicle_class
Vehicle Classification
SUV
Sedan · SUV · Truck · Bus · …
confidence
Confidence Score
0.93
Per-event confidence
count
Traffic Count
1,284 today
Per-sensor rolling window
vibration_energy
Vibration Signature
1842 energy
Raw signal feature
device_health
Sensor Health
3.21 V · 26.4°C
Battery + telemetry
environment
Environmental Data
Ambient · Temp
Context signals
Developer API

Turn roads into data.

Motsense makes road intelligence available through a developer-friendly API, allowing transportation platforms, infrastructure operators, cities, researchers, and mobility applications to integrate real-world traffic information into their own systems.

Traffic Management
Smart City Platforms
Transportation Analytics
Mobility Applications
Research
Digital Twins
Infrastructure Monitoring
Real-time Dashboards
motsense-api
request
GET /v1/traffic/events?road=US-33
Authorization: ******
Accept: application/json
response
200 OK · 41 ms
1{
2 "device_id": "RR-014",
3 "timestamp": "2026-09-12T18:32:04Z",
4 "vehicle_detected": true,
5 "direction": "eastbound",
6 "speed_kmh": 56.7,
7 "vehicle_class": "SUV",
8 "confidence": 0.93,
9 "vibration_energy": 1842
10}
avg latency
42 ms
endpoints
18
regions
US · EU
Build With Motsense

Build on top of real-world road intelligence.

Motsense fits into your existing stack. Consume road-truth data from the API, subscribe to live events via webhooks or MQTT, and enrich the platforms you already run.

sources
Road Sensors
Motsense hardware
Gateways
WisGate + LoRaWAN
motsense api
Traffic Intelligence
REST · Webhooks · MQTT
consumers
Traffic Management
Smart City
Mobility Apps

Customers can consume Motsense data without replacing existing infrastructure software. We integrate alongside your TMS, GIS, planning tools, and analytics warehouses.

  • Interoperable with existing traffic and city platforms
  • Push events via webhooks or subscribe over MQTT
  • Historical data available for planning and studies
  • Structured JSON — ready for warehouses and dashboards
Live Platform Preview

See your road network in real time.

A unified operational view for engineers, operators, and analysts — from device health to lane-level movement.

app.motsense.com / overview
Live · Columbus, OH
Vehicles Today
12,483
+4.2%
Vehicles / Min
18.4
+1.1
Avg Speed
47.6 mph
Active Sensors
47 / 50
Gateways
3 / 3
Active Alerts
2

Traffic activity · last 24h

vehicles / min
3124168000:0003:0006:0009:0012:0015:0018:0021:0023:00

Road network

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Columbus, OH · 50 devices
schematic view

Recent traffic events

live stream
TimeDeviceDirectionSpeedClassConfidence
18:32:04ZRR-029Southbound33.8 km/hPickup0.72
18:31:41ZRR-028Southbound108.0 km/hPickup0.78
18:31:22ZRR-042Eastbound110.8 km/hMotorcycle0.94
18:30:22ZRR-046Southbound70.4 km/hVan0.72
18:31:20ZRR-030Northbound20.3 km/hTruck0.88
Road Sensor

Intelligence embedded in the road.

An infrastructure-grade sensing device engineered for the road surface — low-power, rugged, remotely managed, and quietly precise.

mustard beaconroad-flush housingLoRaWAN uplink
MOTSENSE-RR-014 · online
Vibration sensing
Wide-band mechanical signal capture
Edge processing
On-device feature extraction
Low-power operation
Optimized for autonomous field life
Environmental monitoring
Ambient telemetry channels
LoRaWAN connectivity
Long-range, low-power radio
Remote telemetry
Health, uplinks, and configuration OTA
Solar-assisted
Autonomous power architecture

Motsense hardware is engineered for the road — installed flush, sealed against the elements, and quietly precise across long deployments. The sensor is one component of a managed infrastructure platform.

Why Motsense

An infrastructure platform, not a point sensor.

Deploy sensing intelligence across the road network — and connect it directly to the systems that make transportation work.

01

Distributed

Deploy sensing intelligence across the road network.

02

Real-Time

Move traffic events from the road to digital systems in seconds.

03

API-First

Integrate road intelligence directly into existing applications.

04

Low-Power

Designed for autonomous field operation.

05

Scalable

Expand from individual road segments to large sensing networks.

06

Privacy-Oriented

Extract physical traffic intelligence without requiring a camera at every sensing location.

Solutions

Built for the organizations that operate the road.

Motsense supports transportation professionals, city planners, road operators, and mobility teams with real, ground-truth data.

Smart Cities

Give planning, mobility, and public-works teams a real-time view of how roads actually behave.

  • Traffic volume monitoring
  • Road utilization analysis
  • Infrastructure planning

Transportation Agencies

Add a ground-truth data layer to state and regional transportation programs — from corridor studies to compliance.

  • Speed studies
  • Corridor analysis
  • Program measurement

Road Operators

Operate roads with continuous awareness — not periodic surveys and manual counts.

  • Real-time roadway awareness
  • Incident context
  • Maintenance planning

Mobility Platforms

Enrich navigation, fleet, and delivery products with high-fidelity, low-latency road data.

  • Fleet insights
  • Route intelligence
  • Live conditions

Research Institutions

Access clean, structured, longitudinal road data for transportation research and modeling.

  • Mobility research
  • Long-term studies
  • Model validation
Get Started

Make the road part of the network.

Deploy physical sensing infrastructure that transforms road activity into actionable traffic intelligence.

Motsense · Roads That Sense.