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 ...
Tracking Technologies for Labor and People-Process Measurement
With fundamental changes in store operations, managing and improving people-processes is becoming vitally important and can be a source of true competitive advantage. But until recently, it was extra...
People Process Measurement with External Data
With all the incredible automation in complex supply chains delivered by brand titans, it’s easy to forget that when it comes to retail, the store-side is all about people. And until very recently,...
Advanced Queue Management – Going Beyond Occupancy
What’s the next step beyond Occupancy Management? Queue Management. Not only are long lines a legitimate safety concern, limits on occupancy and basic safe distancing protocols have co...
Finding Strategic Advantage in People-Process Measurement
Legendary Oakland A’s GM Billy Beane popularized the notion of finding and exploiting market inefficiencies. It’s a powerful heuristic for finding strategic advantages and it can be applied to al...
Occupancy Management and People-Counting : Why Camera Matters
In my last post, I talked about why accuracy is critical to occupancy management. But I wanted to expand on that a bit and provide a bit of perspective on the technologies involved. Occu...
Occupancy Management : Accuracy is Everything
To re-open safely, you need to manage occupancy. And you need to prove you’re doing it responsibly. There are lots of door-counting solutions on the market. But how accurate are they? ...
Occupancy Management for Colleges: Case-Study
Challenge A top rated private liberal arts college was looking to safely reopen to students. Real-time occupancy monitoring was a critical need for Covid re-opening, particularly in the main din...
Real-time People Counting
Most people-counting software on the market lives firmly in the batch world. And that’s okay. For many analytics purposes, you need to know what’s happened over days, weeks or months. Knowing wha...