Industrial Automation Magazine India

IoT-VT

Published on : Tuesday 30-11--0001

Tests show video people counting achieves over 98% accuracy. This is how it's done.

• Overhead closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera tracks people's movements.
• The camera connects to a people counter which accurately detects and records how many people pass through the counting zone.
• The people counters stream video and data to a central PC over Wi-Fi, Internet, IP, Ethernet, RS485 or RS232.
• Counts can be combined with live sales data in a POS database, giving real-time sales conversion figures.
• Wide entrances and areas are handled by linking several cameras across the ceiling.
• The embedded video server lets you view live video footage alongside the people counts, so you can accurately verify, and configure, the system over the internet.
• Once set up, counts alone can be sent over the network to save bandwidth.
• Replay counting videos for off-site commissioning
• Choose the time period over which counts are measured: every hour or every 5 minutes for example.

Video Analytics

Video analytics means the computerised analysis of video streams, particularly from CCTV cameras. A Video Turnstile counting unit connects to a CCTV camera and performs real-time analysis of the video for immediate detection and counting of people. During setup, video and analysis can be streamed to a central PC where the settings and counts can be seen—as in the video above.

Our image processing algorithms are over 98% effective at identifying people entering and leaving counting zones.

The Video Turnstile people counters are independent of the video cameras.

There are two types of Video Turnstile unit: one that counts people which is called a VT, and one that saves the counts, which is called a Logger. Each counting system needs at least one Logger. The Logger can save counts from up to 16 VTs. Each camera connects to a VT. The system is thus infinitely scaleable. If you need more counting areas just add more cameras and VTs. At regular intervals the Loggers transmit their counts to the central computer.

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