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How to Set a Safe Occupancy Limit and Get Alerted Before You Hit It
A capacity limit only helps if your team gets a warning before the space fills, not after. Here is how live occupancy is counted from entries and exits, how to choose a threshold, and how to set an early-warning alert.
Staffing to Footfall: How to Match Rotas to When Customers Actually Arrive
Most rotas are built on habit, not on when customers actually arrive. Here is a practical method to turn hourly footfall into a staffing curve, so you have cover when it is busy and fewer wasted hours when it is quiet.
How to Choose a People-Counting System: A Buyer's Guide
Choosing a people-counting system comes down to five things: what hardware you have to buy, how you prove accuracy, how it handles privacy, what it integrates with, and how it is priced. This guide walks you through each one so you can compare vendors on the same terms.
Footfall Analytics by Industry: How Different Venues Use Visitor Data
Footfall, occupancy and queue data mean different things in a fashion store than in a museum or a bank branch. This guide walks through how each type of venue turns visitor counts into decisions about staffing, layout and conversion, with links to a playbook for your sector.
How to Find Your Store's Real Peak Hours with Footfall Data
Sales reports show when you sold, not when you were busy. This guide shows how hourly and daily footfall data reveals your store's real peaks, including the browsers who never buy, and how to turn that into staffing and promotion decisions.
Is People-Counting Data Personal Data Under GDPR? A Plain-English Look
Does counting visitors create personal data? This plain-English guide explains why anonymous aggregate footfall counts usually fall outside GDPR's personal-data rules, where the line sits, and why you should still confirm with your own advisor.
Camera Placement for People Counting: Mounting, Angle and Coverage
Camera placement decides whether your counts are trustworthy. Learn the mounting height, angle, and coverage that give clean counts, how to set up queues and zones, and how to spot a bad view before you roll out.
Dwell Time in Stores: What It Means and How to Measure It
Dwell time is one of the clearest signals of shopper engagement you can measure without asking anyone a question. This guide explains what long and short dwell tell you, how it is measured per zone anonymously, and how to act on it.
Footfall vs POS Data: Why Sales Alone Hide Half Your Store's Story
A sales report cannot tell the difference between a slow day and a busy day where nobody bought. This guide shows what footfall adds to your POS data, how the two combine into conversion, and why sales alone hide half of what happened in your store.