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#People Counting
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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.
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.
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.
RTSP and ONVIF Explained: Connecting Analytics to Your IP Cameras and NVR
RTSP and ONVIF are how analytics software talks to the cameras you already own. This plain-English guide explains the difference, how the software reads a stream off a camera or NVR, and the network checks your IT team should run.
Real-Time Occupancy and Queue Management: A Practical Guide
Live occupancy and queue analytics only matter if they change what your team does next. This guide explains how each metric is measured from your existing cameras, what a good number looks like, and the staffing or safety action it should trigger.
How Accurate Are People Counters? Reading Accuracy Claims Honestly
People-counting accuracy is not a single number you can read off a spec sheet. This guide explains what really affects it, angle, height, lighting, crowding and occlusion, and how to validate a count on your own footage before you trust it.
How to Deploy People-Counting Software on Your Existing Cameras
You do not need new cameras to start counting footfall. This guide walks through assessing camera coverage, picking an on-site computer, connecting your existing feeds over RTSP/ONVIF, and going live, all with video kept on-premise.