Designing an outdoor people counter

Having been in the retail footfall counting business for a number of years I am well aware of the process of counting people, a sensor to ‘see’ the people, a data logger to record the counts and then a way of uploading the counts to a central server so the numbers can be seen by the client, however this presents a whole new set of challenges when there is no power and you are miles from anywhere…

A tablet based inspection system?

One of my clients wanted to offer a simple low cost inspection system to one of their end users. A traditional low cost inspection system would cost several thousands of pounds, they were aiming at several hundred, what about using a tablet Vision systems A typical vision system consists of several key components: A camera. Image processing software. …

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