Twelve JMU students spent the first day of their spring break developing surveillance devices for a federal contractor in North Carolina. Using a Raspberry Pi—a single-board computer—along with cameras and sensors, teams from JMU and Virginia Military Institute were given 24 hours to create a prototype that could count the number of people walking past a designated area, but with a catch—their device needed to be accurate enough to avoid counting the same person twice.
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