Remember the days when city engineers ran a tube along a road to count the cars?

Back in the day when we only had computers in dark corners of school libraries, cars where counted using a pressure tubing physically strewn across a road or highway and bolted into place. Thanks to computers and the modern wonder of video analytics, cars can be counted in each line without bolting any pressure tubes. Now we just need to teach this computer to find us an open parking spot, we'd be all set...

...Intelligent security cameras allow for a cheaper safer public environment and also reduce costs in other civic tasks. Big brother is watching, but he is also helping out.