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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.
What Is Capture Rate in Retail and How Do You Improve It?
Capture rate tells you how good your storefront is at pulling people in off the street or mall walkway. This guide explains how it is calculated, what window and entrance changes do to it, and how to read it with illustrative example numbers.
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.
People Counting Without Facial Recognition: How Body-Only Detection Works
Modern people counting does not need faces. This guide explains how counting works from body shape, head and shoulders, and position, why that keeps the output anonymous, and how it differs from facial recognition and cross-camera re-identification.
People Counter Types Compared: Cameras, Thermal Sensors, Beam Counters and Wi-Fi
A neutral comparison of the main people-counting technologies, cameras, thermal sensors, infrared beams and Wi-Fi, by accuracy in crowds, privacy surface, hardware cost and what each can and cannot measure.
Retail Conversion Rate: How to Measure and Improve It with Footfall Data
Conversion rate tells you how many of the people who walked in actually bought something. This guide shows you how to calculate it from footfall and POS data, what a healthy rate looks like for your store, and the practical levers that move it.
Privacy-First People Counting: Anonymous, On-Premise, No Facial Recognition
A clear, honest explainer of privacy-first people counting. We cover body-only detection, on-site video processing, what data is stored, and why only anonymous numbers ever leave your building, without overstating what any system can promise.