Camera Technology for People Counting : An Overview
The Measurement Minute by Gary Angel Camera is the most popular technology for people-counting. And with good reason. It's highly accurate and very detailed. But while vendors have done ...
Tackling Data Governance: Is it the Equivalent of Soviet-era Agriculture?
The Measurement Minute by Gary Angel In another interview from the DA Hub, Matthew Wolf from Dignity Health joins the Minute. Since he was recently tapped to head-up a large-scale data g...
The Devious Nature of the Website Sample
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel The basic principle of most customer VoC is that your sampling needs to be independent of your marketing. You know what violates that basic princip...
Just Because It’s Old Doesn’t Mean It’s Right
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel Traditional opinion research and even Website surveys have been around for quite awhile now. So folks in the enterprise take their accuracy for gra...
The Impact of Store Measurement Technology on Shopper Sample
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel The two main IoT technologies for shopper measurement are video and electronic sensors. They perform very differently and have very different chara...
Building a Thoughtful Store Sample
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel Given that it's often too expensive to install IoT-based people measurement fleet-wide, the challenge becomes deciding which stores to measure. Tha...
We are always Sampling
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel Sampling is a fact of measurement life. Even when we aren't consciously doing it, we're probably sampling. And it is the nature of sampling (even w...
IoT Security and Other Oxymorons
The Measurement Minute with Gary Angel Device security in IoT is notoriously problematic. Some of this comes from absurdly bad practice including web-connected devices running Linux vari...
The One IoT Headache Everyone Shares
The Measurement Minute by Gary Angel When you put devices in the field, you open up a whole Christmas-tree full of boxes of IT problems. There is nothing - and I mean nothing - more frus...