The people counting group is used to group the doors and people counting cameras of certain region. You can set some doors and cameras as the region border. Only the persons accessing these doors or detected by the cameras are calculated, and other doors and cameras inside the region are ignored. By grouping these doors and cameras, the system provides counting functions based on the detected records on these doors and cameras. With this function, you can know how many persons still stay in this region. This is available for certain emergency or commercial scenarios. For example, for emergency scenario, during a fire escape, the number of the stayed persons will be displayed on the map which is required for rescue. For commercial scenario, the shopping mall manager can get the people counting report to know the number of people entering each stores.

1. Click Logical View on the home page.
2. Choose one of the following methods to enter the area's resource group page.

   • Select one area and click to enter the editing area page.

     Figure 1. Enter Area Editing Page

   • Select Group tab on the left to display all the resource groups of different areas.

     Figure 2. Enter Resource Group Page
3. In the People Analysis field, click Add to enter the Add People Analysis page.
4. On the Add Person Analysis page, select People Counting as the analysis type.
5. Create a name for the group.
6. In the Maximum Capacity text box, enter the maximum amount of persons that can enter the area monitored by this group.
7. In the RES for People Stayed CALC area, click Add to select the resources (including doors and people counting cameras) for calculating the number of people stayed in this region.
8. Set the entering or exiting direction of the card readers of the selected doors and the entering or exiting direction of the cameras.
   Note:

   Number of People Stayed in Region = Number of People Entered - Number of People Exited.

   For doors, the access records on the entering card reader will be calculated as person entering this region while the access records on the exiting one will be calculated as person exiting this region.

   For people counting cameras, the people crossing along the entering direction will be calculated as person entering this region while the people crossing along the exiting one will be calculated as person exiting this region.

9. Optional: You can locate the people counting group on the map by setting the locations of the doors and cameras in the group and setting the border of the region for detection.
   1. Check Add to Map.

      The region as well as the doors and cameras in the group will be added to the map of the area on the right.

   2. Drag to draw the region according to the actual needs.
   3. Drag the icons of the doors and cameras to set the their locations on the map.
   4. Right click to finish.
      Figure 3. Draw People Counting Group on Map

   After adding the people counting group on the map, you can view the real-time number of people entered, exited the region, or stayed in the region in the Monitoring module on the Control Client. Meanwhile, when an alarm is triggered in the region (such as people amount more/less than threshold), the client will notify the user by highlighting the region on the map.

10. Click Add.

    The people counting group is added in the table and you can view the resources in the group.