In the current competitive property market, display homes are increasingly important for gathering buyer engagement data. A key technology significantly contributing to this is the EvolvePlus people counter solution.

Decoding Foot Traffic: What Are People Counter Sensors?

EvolvePlus people counter sensors are advanced devices that accurately track the number of people entering and leaving a display home. These sensors use technologies like wireless infrared, time-of-flight, and stereo vision to provide precise, real-time foot traffic data while protecting visitor privacy.

The Strategic Advantage: Why Display Homes Benefit

Implementing people counters offers a multitude of benefits for developers and sales teams:

Track Visitor Numbers: Understand how many people are visiting each home, and when.

Measure Campaign Success: Link foot traffic to advertising efforts and identify what’s working.

Discover the power of centralised people-counting analytics with our new video overview of the EvolvePlus ePortal Cloud Dashboard. Learn how to effortlessly analyse foot traffic across multiple locations and time intervals, all within a secure, web-based platform. Our dashboard leverages advanced security profiles, ensuring tailored access levels for your team.

EvolvePlus offers comprehensive indoor and outdoor people-counting solutions, delivering exceptional accuracy and in-depth analytics. From overhead sensors with adult, child, and gender recognition to wireless, battery-powered infrared sensors for streamlined installation, we have the perfect solution for your needs. The EvolvePlus ePortal Cloud Dashboard consolidates data from all your sensors, providing a unified reporting experience.

Contact EvolvePlus today to explore our overhead and horizontal people counter sensors and optimize foot traffic analysis for shopping centres, retail stores, leisure centres, libraries, museums, galleries, commercial buildings, and more.

For government agencies and businesses that need to install people counter sensors on a 4G cellular network instead of their local network, or for those implementing traffic counting sensors in offsite locations with 4G coverage and power, EvolvePlus provides people counters with built-in 4G mobile broadband connectivity.

Our 4G-enabled people counters include:

• Battery-Powered Wireless Solution, which features a sensor gateway with integrated 4G and is available in both indoor and outdoor models.
• Overhead Time of Flight (ToF) Solution, which comes with onboard 4G and IP65 protection, making it suitable for both indoor and sheltered outdoor environments.

These counters are easy to deploy in various settings, such as retail stores, public libraries, public toilets,
and park entrances, with seamless data transfer to the EvolvePlus ePortal Cloud Dashboard via 4G.

Want to learn more? Visit our comparison page or contact EvolvePlus to discuss your people counting requirements.

EvolvePlus offers an automated wireless people counter solution that is easy to install. The solution combines wireless RF people counter sensors with either our Australian-developed cloud portal or the IMMOTION on-premise software to provide data-driven analysis through dashboards and reports.

We ship the people counters and SNG Hub (sensor network gateway) preconfigured with your counting location settings. Your team can install the sensors and hub by following these 3 easy steps:

Step 1: Install SNG Hub: Unpack the SNG Hub and connect to power and an internet-enabled ethernet port within 20 metres of the proposed counting location. If your network has a firewall, you will need to allow port 5xxxx for data transfer to/from the EvolvePlus cloud or on-premise software.

Step 2: Insert Batteries in People Counter Sensors: Unpack the people counter sensors, which consist of a transmitter and receiver, and insert 2 x AA batteries into each. Then, activate and validate the sensors.

In the rapidly evolving landscape of retail, corporate and public spaces, our Overhead 3D People Counter solution provides highly accurate people counting in a range of buildings, including shopping centres, galleries, public libraries, office buildings, government facilities, leisure centres, and transport hubs. The people counter plays a pivotal role in gathering valuable data to optimise operations, enhance customer experiences, and make informed decisions.

Our Overhead 3D People Counter solution is now available with optional wireless connectivity. The wireless connectivity allows for easy installation and setup by connecting to a building's WiFi. Using a wireless connection, there is no need for complicated wiring or infrastructure. The advantage is beneficial in environments where aesthetics and convenience are crucial, allowing organisations to set up counters without disrupting the existing infrastructure.

Organisations can easily add or relocate counters as needed without the challenges imposed by physical cables. This scalability ensures that the people-counting solution can adapt to evolving spatial requirements and changing traffic patterns.

The wireless Overhead 3D People Counter connects seamlessly to the same EvolvePlus Cloud Dashboard & Analytics platform as the PoE model, which provides interactive web-based charts, dashboards and reports that can be exported in a variety of formats, including Excel, CSV and Word,

EvolvePlus offers two different models of battery-powered Outdoor People Counters, with both providing detailed footfall analytics:

• USB People Counter with onboard memory
• Wireless People Counter - with automated data transfer via 4G mobile broadband or local network

Both models are ideal for environments such as public toilets, park entrances, and footpaths, and include a robust outdoor enclosure designed to withstand the harsh elements.

Which Model is Right for You?

If you need a simple and affordable people counting solution for remote locations with no power or 4G connectivity, the USB People Counter is a great option. It is easy to install and use, and the data can be easily collected and analysed using the included on-premise software.

The Wireless People Counter is an excellent choice if you need a fully automated solution and have nearby access to power and 4G connectivity. It is easy to install and configure, and the data is automatically transferred to the EvolvePlus Cloud Dashboard for quick access to the footfall analytics.

The turnkey, automated people counter solution from EvolvePlus combines our wireless LoRaWAN people counter sensors with our cloud portal for data-driven analysis with integrated dashboards and reports.

We ship the wireless LoRaWAN gateway and people counters preconfigured with your counting location settings ready for your team to self-install.

Installing the wireless LoRaWAN people counter and gateway is a straightforward process - all it takes is 3 easy steps:

Step 1: Install LoRaWAN Gateway: unpack the LoRaWAN gateway and connect it to power and an internet-enabled network point within 50 metres of the proposed sensor counting location (or further if you have the optional external antenna). If your network has a firewall, you will need to ensure to enable inbound & outbound traffic on port 1700 with the EvolvePlus cloud.

A micro display (LCD) people counter is a device to count the number of people passing through a particular area or doorway. It typically consists of a small display unit integrated with sensors that can detect the presence of individuals.

Here's a general overview of how a micro display (LCD) people counter works:

1. Detection: The system uses sensors on either side to detect people passing through a designated area.

2. Data Processing: The sensor data is processed to analyse the presence and movement of individuals.

3. Counting: As people are detected, the system increments a counter to keep track of the number of individuals passing through. This count is displayed on a small micro display unit, which is integrated into the device.

The ePortal API for our EvolvePlus Cloud Dashboard delivers footfall data from our Overhead 3D, Wireless and USB people counters in JSON format.

The information delivered via the API provides valuable traffic insights to determine optimal staffing requirements, operating hours, and peak visitor times, with organisations able to utilise the data within their own analytics applications such as Zoho Analytics and Microsoft PowerBI.

Version 1.2 of the ePortal API version 1.2 has been enhanced to support our latest Wireless LoRaWAN people counters (available in horizontal and overhead mounting models). LoRaWAN is a Low Power, Wide Area networking protocol designed to connect battery-operated sensors over long distances.

By incorporating the traffic data into your centralised business intelligence dashboard, you can combine data from multiple sources into a centralised insight, including sales results, financial statements, library statistics, event sales and people traffic counts.

Contact EvolvePlus to learn how to use the EvolvePlus Cloud API to incorporate your people counter data into your business intelligence platforms.

Maintaining clean public toilets and other building facilities is essential for ensuring the health and safety for visitors. EvolvePlus people counters can help facility managers and cleaning contractors identify which restrooms require more attention than others.

By monitoring each bathroom's foot traffic and usage patterns, facility managers can identify which restrooms are used more frequently and require more frequent cleaning. This information can be used to allocate resources more effectively and ensure that the most heavily used restrooms receive the attention they need. The data collected by the EvolvePlus people counters can be used for strategic planning and decision-making, such as identifying trends and patterns in usage, assessing the impact of cleaning schedules, and forecasting future demand.

The EvolvePlus people counters can also help cleaning staff allocate their time and resources more efficiently. By tracking the number of people entering and exiting a toilet facility, the cleaning team can prioritise their tasks based on usage patterns. The EvolvePlus Cloud Dashboard can show that a bathroom is frequently used for short periods of time, so it may be more effective to clean the restroom more frequently but for shorter periods of time. This ensures that the bathroom is always clean and available for use, while minimising the amount of time and effort required to clean it. The EvolvePlus Dashboard can also be used to allocate resources more effectively and ensure that the most heavily used restrooms receive the attention they need.

Privacy is also important for organisations implementing the EvolvePlus people counters to ensure they remain compliant with the relevant GDPR and New Zealand data privacy regulations. Our horizontal wireless and overhead infrared models are ideal solutions to provide anonymous traffic monitoring without using cameras or capturing personal data.

Click here for more information on the different EvolvePlus people models, or contact EvolvePlus for more pricing and more information.

Two models of battery-powered wireless people counters are available from EvolvePlus, with each having advantages for different people counting environments. Each model provides different data transmission methods, whilst both models utilise the same sensor enclosure with horizontal infrared technology. This enables customers to choose the model that best suits their environment.

The Wireless RF (Short Range) People Counter model can transmit count data every few seconds and is ideal for organisations that require self-hosted software or live occupancy displays. This model features indicator lights on the sensors to highlight successful data transmission and low battery.

The Gateway (SNG Hub) for the Wireless RF (Short Range) People Counter model needs located within 20 metres of the people counter sensors and provide connectivity to the network via ethernet. Reporting software for installation on your own PC/server is included, with the option for the EvolvePlus Cloud Dashboard.

The Wireless LoRaWAN (Long Range) People Counter model has a key feature of counting people at both indoor and outdoor entrances that may be located hundreds of metres from the LoRaWAN Gateway, with the data transmitted every 30 minutes for analysis and reporting to the EvolvePlus Cloud Dashboard.

The gateway includes wi-fi, ethernet, and optional 4G network connectivity and is also available with an external long-range antenna. Instead of the EvolvePlus Cloud Dashboard, organisations can also choose to use their own Smart Cities LoRaWAN IoT data platform.

Our cloud-delivered EvolvePlus ePortal web application provides data-driven analysis with dashboards and reports across our IoT product range. Our IoT sensors include Overhead 3D, Wireless and USB people counters, indoor air quality sensors and smiley feedback counters.

We have continued to evolve our ePortal application, with this month's release of the ePortal (v3.3.0) now including the following new features and enhancements:

• Quarter-Hour Cumulative Occupancy Historical Analysis for Overhead 3D People Counters
• Chart and Reports of the new Wireless LoRaWAN edition of the Smiley Feedback Counters
• Chart and Reports of the new Air Quality Sensors, including Daily Detailed Data Analysis and CO2 Daily Analysis
• Quarter-Hour Analysis for USB People Counters

Contact EvolvePlus to learn more about the EvolvePlus ePortal application and how it can be used to analyse data from your people counters and other IoT sensors. 

Modern airports are among the busiest places globally requiring continuous crowd monitoring for security and efficiency purposes. There are many challenges that airports face daily, and high people flow is one of the most critical ones. People traffic counters are useful tools for airports to have, the traffic counting technology allows security managers to make informed decisions on streamlining passenger traffic.

The EvolvePlus Wireless People Counters were recently installed at the security check screen point servicing Terminal 3 and Terminal 4 departures at Melbourne Airport allowing management to make evidence-based decisions. With the ability to compare traffic flow between various periods, management can prepare in advance with additional resources and predict peak travel times.

The EvolvePlus Wireless People Counter Active Infrared / IR beam (also called a ‘break beam’) technology was selected due to the ease of implementation with no significant delays experienced by passengers or detrimental impact to airport operations during installation.

Organisations face the challenge on how to effectively count people and facilities and entrances located hundreds of metres from the nearest mains power source, with data automatically transmitted to a cloud platform for reporting and analysis.

Our LoRaWAN People Counting solution solves this challenge with our battery powered People Counter sensors implemented at remote locations. For example:

• public toilets
• parks
• playgrounds
• sporting facilities
• outdoor events
• footpaths
• visitor centres
• leisure centres

The footfall traffic data is automatically transmitted to a LoRaWAN gateway located in close proximity (which can be hundreds of metres or a few kilometres away depending on the LoRaWAN base station and long range antenna).

Our latest LoRaWAN People Counter utilises the AS923 band, which is broadly supported by LoRaWAN network operators and gateways for IoT devices across both New Zealand and Australia.

For further product detail refer to the LoRaWAN People Counters product page or Contact EvolvePlus for more information.

We have published a video of our Overhead 3D People Counter solution, demonstrating how the EvolvePlus solution provides footfall traffic counting in different directions whilst using the integrated Artificial Intelligence (AI) to exclude staff from the counts, detect gender and. use height ranges to detect adults & children.

The video features a snapshot of the EvolvePlus Dashboard & Analytics platform, delivering interactive browser based charts, reports and dashboards that can be exported in a variety of formats including CSV, MS Excel and Word.

More information on how we deliver the solution pre-configured to simplify installation refer to the article The 3 Easy Steps To Install.

To discover more about the Overhead 3D People Counters you can Contact EvolvePlus to see how we can help with your people counting requirements within retail stores, public libraries, shopping centres, commercial buildings, museums, galleries and more.

For outdoor environments such as public toilets, park entrances, festivals, footpaths and more EvolvePlus offer a range of outdoor people counters with robust and secure casing.

Moulded from the finest commercial grade plastic and designed to withstand the harsh outdoor elements the outdoor casing provides excellent security for the battery powered people counter sensors. There are two types of robust outdoor casing available:

• Black front cover for entrances up to 3 metres wide
• Clear front cover for entrances up to 5 metres wide

The people counter models available with the robust outdoor casing are:

• USB People Counter - with Onboard Memory
• Wireless People Counter - with Automated Data Transfer via Ethernet or 3G
• Display People Counter - with Onboard Display
• LoRaWAN People Counter - with Data Transfer via LoRaWAN

Examples of customer implementations of the EvolvePlus outdoor people counters with robust casing:

For more information on how our Outdoor People Counter solutions can be implemented to suit your requirements contact EvolvePlus.

How a local council monitored the usage of Community Parklet Pop-Ups

Background

The temporary community parklets are a new form of public space popping up in parking bays across council districts.

The fenced modular designs offer extra opportunities for residents to sit and relax, meet friends and family or enjoy a snack or coffee outdoors. 

The local council was keen to capture visitation data at each of the community parklets for evaluation and future planning.

Our wireless people counter provides New Zealand organisations with automated footfall traffic data capture and analysis. The battery-powered sensors enable easy installation in a wide variety of environments with data transfer to the IMMOTION Web App (available in both on-premise and cloud editions) via ethernet, wi-fi or 3G mobile broadband.

The below video provides a quick overview of the automated EvolvePlus Wireless People Counter with its various components:

IMMOTION Web App Overview
The following video is a quick overview of the IMMOTION Web Application for viewing the people counter statistics across hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and annual time periods:

EvolvePlus offers an extensive range of Outdoor People Counter solutions designed to assist New Zealand organisations to analyse footfall traffic data in a variety of environments including public toilets, footpaths, park entrances, markets as well as indoor venues that are exposed to moisture such as swimming pools and leisure centres. Our extensi...