Technological Knowledge Platform in The Danish Road Directorate’s Cars for Safeguarding of the Biodiversity

10. juli 2025 | Develco A/S

• Automation & Robotter
• Fødevareteknologi
• Intern Logistik
• Maskiner, Værktøj, Produktions- og Sikkerhedsudstyr

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The biodiversity on the state roads in Scandinavia is threatened. Many species are on the verge of extermination. Invasive plants create difficult conditions for the biodiversity and traffic-killed animals require many resources to find and collect. To optimize the resources at The Danish Road Directorate Develco and Trifork have developed a technological knowledge platform consisting of physical hardware and software with Artificial Intelligence AI.

Camera Box with Computer and GPS

Develco has developed the physical hardware with a camera box mounted on The Danish Road Directorate’s cars with a Thule stand fitting all car models. The box contains two cameras, a computer with high graphic processing power, a gateway with GSM communication to the Cloud, a power supply, and a GPS tracker to identify the location of the invasive plants and dead animals on the roads.

Software with Artificial Intelligence AI

With the camera boxes on the cars The Danish Road Directorate can take 41 pictures per second of the state roads and transmit data with photo recordings on to a Cloud solution developed by Trifork.
Trifork has also developed the software with Artificial Intelligence AI, which is run on the computer in the camera box on The Danish Road Directorate’s cars. The AI model analyzes the images while driving the cars and can distinguish and process the recorded photos of plants and animals on the roads. In the Cloud solution The Danish Road Directorate analyzes the photo recordings and ensures that the invasive plants and dead animals are subsequently removed from the roads by The Danish Road Directorate’s biologists.