Add People Counting Group

The people counting group is used to group the doors, people counting cameras, queue management cameras, and fisheye 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 outside the region are ignored. By grouping these doors and cameras, the platform provides counting functions based on the detected records on these doors and cameras.

1. In the top left corner of the platform, select > Intelligent Analysis > Analysis Group > People Counting Group.
2. Click Add.
3. Set basic configurations.
   1. Create a name for the group.
   2. Select a site.
   3. (Optional) Switch on the Maximum Number of Persons and enter the maximum number of persons that can enter the area monitored by this group.
   4. (Optional) Switch on the Regularly Clear All and set a time for clearing all data regularly.
   5. (Optional) Switch on the Staff-Excluded People Count to count people excluding those such as store staff to get more accurate people counting statistics.
      Note:

      You can click Configure to go to Customer Traffic Excluding Staff page.

   6. Click Save and Continue.
4. Configure resources for counting people.
   1. In the Resource for Counting People part, click Add to select the resources (including doors and people counting cameras) for calculating the number of people stayed in this region.
   2. Click Edit to select statistics type, and In/Out Direction, and click Save.
      Note:

      • You can set Statistics Type as Total Entries, Total People Passed By, and Total People Entered/Passed By. The reports will display and only display the data concerning the statistics type that you select.

      • For doors, the access records on the entry reader will be calculated as person entered this region while the access records on the exit one will be calculated as person exited this region.

      • For cameras, the people crossing along the entry direction will be calculated as person entered this region while the people crossing along the exit one will be calculated as person exited this region.

   3. Click Save and Continue.
5. Add the people counting group to a map.
   1. Drag the people counting group from the Resource Group list on the right to the map.

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

   2. Drag to draw the region according to actual needs.
   3. Drag the icons of the doors and cameras onto the map to set the their locations on the map.
   4. Right click to finish.
      Figure 1 Draw People Counting Group on Map
   5. Click Finish.

      The people counting group is displayed on the list.