2020 has been a year of reflection for many companies seeking to restructure and innovate, and it is not a secret to believe that in the midst of a pandemic all back to normal, without taking the necessary steps to receive customers and employees inside an enclosure safely.
The control measures of sanitary and social distancing, have made thousands of enterprises to seek technological solutions to control the amount of people that are found in the same place in real time, especially, when these spaces are too large, they have multiple entrances and not possible to control it manually.
Before you Begin
The first thing you need to know to “Control Capacity” is that you must replace the manual counting of people by a digital one, in addition to support personnel at the entrances and exits of the venue, and to monitor compliance with the hygiene measures and social distancing already regulated.
Below, we present 2 secure technologies to Control the Capacity in Real-Time
Let us start from the premise that the solution of capacity control you could feed data generated from devices, people counting, that some campuses already have installed on their accesses.
If you have an account with this kind of sensors you can save on Hardware, since it is possible to integrate these solutions that you will mention.
1) Technology of Computer Vision for Capacity:
Through existing security cameras in a space it is possible to use the images to be analyzed through a unit of computer (server) through intelligent algorithms, which enable real-time to differentiate between objects and people, including officials or customers, including men, women, or children, even particular patterns defined facial recognition.
In simple words it is not more than Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning that operates as if it were an eye, and a human brain, which has the ability to assess, analyze and take into account all of the variables to be able to detect a person or object, but with a greater capacity of response by the ability to process massive data and analyze it in record time.
The unit of computation is able to transform the video frame in data, all in real-time, using algorithms makes it possible to detect a person entering or leaving a defined area of a count, to represent the data in a system or panel visible for officials or customers.
In this way you can automatically allow or deny the access to the venue without human help.
2) The sensors stereoscopic 3D for Seating
They are an excellent choice if your only goal is to measure the traffic access. This technology has a 98% accuracy and allows you to like the cameras to detect people and to be able to distinguish between them in between children and adults for their half of your height.
Unlike cameras, these sensors are not as flexible, because they are constructed to be positioned in a vision triangulada pointing downwards as shown in the image. What makes it difficult to scan the front or capture specific traits in people, for example in case of detecting the use of mask.
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How to represent the data that is captured?
When a person crosses completely the area of counting, the captured data are sent to a server in the cloud, centralizing the information; Then compared with the various indicators of capacity per square meter of the premises in question and then represent the data as useful information and digestible for end users.
For example: When the maximum capacity allowed has reached its limit, the display changes to red to indicate that it has zero (0) available capacity.
The minimum indicators that must be generated on these platforms are:
- Capacity Current number of people
- Capacity Maximum number of people
- Available capacity: number of people
- Percentage of Occupancy in real-time
Other ways to use the data:
- In Real-time: In the form of type indicators lights to display the seating. on screens, computers, or mobile applications.
- Processed data: Panels with graphs and charts for analysis of the historical and/or projections of future capacity of the enclosure.
- In the form of Alerts: Based on business rules number of people per square meter, they can trigger Push notifications to a mobile phone, alerting limits of capacity to trigger tasks mitigation of potential health risks within the enclosure.
Conclusion What is the solution of Capacity Control to choose?
The technologies of capacity control will be a key part of any commercial building or a lot of flow of people. The choice of the right technology depends on our judgment of how much you want to grow in the analysis of data and business intelligence.
In Intelligenxia we have years of experience in the technology of advanced analytics to make espacíos physical distinas industries, and we can say that based on our experience we would recommend the various technologies on the basis of the following criteria:
Criteria for choosing Sensors 3D: If you want to focus your analysis only to control the Capacity to meet your current need of sanitary standard, option 2 of sensors 3D are a great solution and very accurate.
Criteria to choose Cameras with Computer Vision:
When you discover that you can use the data capacity to enrich and/or cross with other indicators of the business, when you want to capture other attributes of your customers or users that allow you to trigger other levers, or when you want to automate certain processes based on defined actions that you must control.
Of these cases, we recommend to use the technology of cameras with Vision Computing that will allow you to measure the Capacity and maturity in analytics to grow your business.
Without you have cameras or sensors counters of people in your venue, we can help you to have a solution integral to control the capacity of your space in times of pandemic.
