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People Counting: Beginner's Guide

Introduction

In the People Counting module, there are 4 different tabs: People Counting Events, Occupancy Overview, Occupancy Details, and Footfall Reports. 

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People Counting Events

In People Counting Events, the primary customisation options are available through the filters, allowing users to filter by site, camera, server type, created rules, and timeframe. 

Under Recent Events users can view recent event information. Clicking an event opens a side tab that displays alert details, associated video evidence, and server information. Users can also download the evidence.

Occupancy Overview & Occupancy Details

People Counting: Occupancy Overview provides visibility into overcapacity incidents, occupancy trends, and key metrics in real-time such as average occupancy, total occupancy, and hourly occupancy breakdown across a zone.

People Counting: Occupancy Details is nested inside of People Counting: Occupancy Overview and provides detailed analysis of an individual zone. To access Occupancy Details, click on a zone.

Footfall Trends

A variety of footfall trends are available:

  • Live Dashboard,
  • Weekly Footfall Trends,
  • Monthly Footfall Trends,
  • Annual Footfall Trends.

Each option provides a different level of aggregation, from real-time analytics through to long-term trends (weekly, monthly, and yearly).

The Live Dashboard is useful for real-time monitoring, while Weekly and Monthly Trends are typically the most useful starting points for analysing patterns over time. Annual Trends are best suited for long-term comparisons.

There are a variety of filters available in Footfall Trends, including:

  • Filter by site.
  • Filter by year, month, or week

Enabling users to analyse historical data (e.g., 2023 Week 18 for Location 1) as seamlessly as the current week. 

For more information, see People Counting: Footfall Trends.