Headcounting?

[peterwright 0]

Hi,

 

I have to design a system that headcounts people.

 

I wanted to use Milestone, but can I, is it supported?

 

What is the best headcounting CCTV system in people's experience please?

 

Thanks

[ilk 0]

Hi,

 

I have to design a system that headcounts people.

 

I wanted to use Milestone, but can I, is it supported?

 

What is the best headcounting CCTV system in people's experience please?

 

Thanks

 

There are a number of high end camera systems that include people counting as part of their video analytic offering, Bosch being one.

 

Some offerings are quite basic but using APIs, specialist software can provide a greater choice of functionality.

 

The accuracy of such systems relate to where the camera is installed to view the surveillance area.

 

As you would expect, directly overhead is best and face on with shallow camera angles being the least accurate.

 

Hope this helps

 

Ilkie

[Daryl733 0]

Why would you want to use a CCTV camera for head counting ?

 

You'll get the figures, but you still need software backend for presenting the data in graphical or trending or statistical form.

Combining multiple cameras data in same store or different stores needs quite a bit of integration work as well.

 

You might be better of using purposed build system to do headcounting, e.g. http://www.retailcam.info.

Price are comparable to people counting cctv cameras, or even cheaper in most case.

 

It's able to do headcounting of a 12m doorway mounted at 3.5m height with accuracy of at least 95% to 98%.

 

Apart from that, it also have wifi signal tracking built in.

It's also able to track outside traffic, e.g. people passing by outside out of view of the cameras without turning in, customer dwell time (how long customer stay in the shop), customers return rates (how often the customer return), cross shopping (if the customer patronized other outlets), sales conversion (required integration with the pos), etc.

 

Single integrated system with a cloud portal to view all data collected in dashboard format and downloadable in csv format.

 

I gave up using CCTV cameras for headcounting as there's a lot of integration work at the backend to do to present the data to users.

Also, most of the cheap cameras that do "headcounting" basically do line crossing counting instead. Multiple people crossing the target area will just count as 1. Overtime, it grossly undercount.

Edited March 3, 2016 by Guest

[Daryl733 0]

And yes. It's definitely a LOT cheaper than milestone. Just realize you are comparing to milestone.

 

And like what ilk said, the cameras optimal installation location is right overhead looking down.

This prevent people in front from blocking images of people behind.

 

The CCTV camera would not not achieve the usual aim of security function as it is basically meant to look down at people's head and count them. They won't capture face, etc.