Why you shouldn’t use mobile phone signals to count people: Dutch city fined €600000
Enschede in the Netherlands chose a mobile phone solution to count the people in their city. But they failed to
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Author: Jill Studholme
Live car park space monitoring via IoT
Real-time sensing gives live parking space occupancy via IoT. Connects to smart city systems to show number of free car park spaces.
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The secret of visitor value: why high street stores are using the same metrics as web sites
Webmasters are superstars at analysing visitor data. What can retailers learn from their approach? One metric that stores are stealing
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Revealed: why a longer ‘average shopping time’ pushes up retail sales
How much customers buy is a direct result of how long they spend in a store. The longer the average
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It’s not just Retailers who Count People
It’s not just retailers who benefit from counting how many people come through their doors. Many other businesses are now
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Learn how to reduce queues and increase sales
More than 7 people in a queue means people won’t join it. And they won’t wait in line more than 9 minutes. Furthermore 70% are less likely to return to a store if they experience long waiting times on just one occasion. Video technology can help. By measuring queue lengths and waiting times, and connecting queue monitoring to POS systems, companies test queue reduction measures and assess their impact and profitability.
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Retail Staffing: 93% of people more likely to buy if optimal staff levels
Thousands of shoppers walk into stores looking for guidance on what to buy, but nearly 90 percent leave empty handed
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Traffic Up; Conversion Down?
How do retailers measure the affects of advertising promotions? One obvious metric is sales. Has the store sold more stuff
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Glossary of People, Vehicle and Passenger Counting Definitions
Dictionary of terms used to describe people counting, retail analytics, passenger counting, footfall systems, smart city counting and related topics.
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New Vehicle Traffic Counter uses CCTV and continually Reports via Web Browsers
Retail Sensing are excited to launch their innovative Vehicle Traffic Counter. Using CCTV and intelligent counting units, the traffic counting
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Everything about counting people now in Spanish
Now in Spanish – all about people counting, footfall, reducing queues, monitoring capacity, counting outdoors, improving sales conversion… We’ve translated
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