How to people counter working ?

People counting is the act of counting people in or out of an area. Usually, this is to conduct visitor traffic at the entrance or exit, and use the electronic equipment of people counter to automatically count the number of people.

People counters are also known as counting sensor, footfall counters, door counters, customer counters and visitor counters; These devices work by detecting when a person crosses a user configured invisible count lines.

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People Counting Technology

How the personnel counting device detects a person depends on the technology used. The most popular technologies are infrared TOF, thermal imaging and 3D stereo vision – each with its own advantages and disadvantages. At present, the mainstream technology is 3D binocular stereo camera counter, which has the highest cost performance.

Once the number information is collected, the number data is usually sent to the retail analysis platform for analysis through the Internet (near real time).