With the release of our Telraam S2 device we made a promise that in the not too distant future accurate traffic counts would become possible for motorised vehicles at night, in the dark too.
During recent months no specific night counting algorithm was running, but nevertheless - for testing purposes - we enabled the sensors to attempt counting overnight too. This is why you might have seen some counts on your device, or street segment even at night too. Now this initial testing period has ended it is clear that we need to develop a proprietary night counting method in order to achieve good night time accuracy.
Since the data of the test period is not accurate, we have decided to delete the inaccurate night time data from our database, to make sure that only accurate data is visible on telraam.net and via our APIs. This will also make sure that when accurate night time data is introduced, night time averages will not be influenced by the old inaccurate data. Daytime data is not affected in any way.
As - for the time being - we simply stop saving counts in our database which were recorded at night, you might see some discrepancy between daily counts on the screen of your Telraam S2 device, and the counts on the corresponding segment page, since the daily totals shown on the screen will include the inaccurate night time counts which are discarded by the Telraam database. This discrepancy will disappear when we deploy a new firmware containing the proprietary night counting algorithm. The development of this proprietary algorithm has started, and we are aiming at the coming winter for its deployment, so as the nights get longer again (in the Northern hemisphere), we will not lose sight of traffic anymore.