Title
: Real Time People Counter to ensure safe people density in enclosed area.
Description
: ### Problem Statement:
Bangladesh is a populous country. We see overcrowding in almost every public places, which sometime lead to fatality.
Now in the time of Corona Pandemic, while we are practicing social distancing to prevent spread of the virus, overcrowding has become a major health security hazard.
To enforce social distancing we are now under forced lockdown. But at some point we have to resume work as usual. Then also the need for social distancing, maintaining at least 3Ft distance from each other, will apply as the virus is not going away. The other factor is people in enclosed places have much higher risks of getting infected than open places with free airflow.
Having so many enclosed places like shopping complexes, restaurants, supermarkets, religious institutions, halls, factories, etc how to ensure that people density doesn't exceed the safe limit?
How to monitor, check and enforce social distancing in enclosed places when businesses open up?
How can General people like shoppers, visitors know beforehand if a place is overcrowded or not and make an informed decision.
### Solution:
A people counting solution can allow the business to open but maintaining a safety criterion.
A People Counter setup at the entrance of enclosed places like supermarkets can give real time data on how many people are inside, if people density is under threshold mark. This data can be displayed in a simple onsite LED panel. The continuous Data collected can be sent to a central server to which many such counters will stay connected. Some central enforcing agency can monitor and track or even the general people can also check before going to a place if it’s over crowded or not.
A safe public density plan need to be developed where we can determine safe people density in SFT or SQM measures in different premises, following WHO guideline and advice from epidemiologist and other experts.
The Solution will provide following information and components,
1. How many people are inside the premises?
2. If people density is under threshold value?
3. Display the numbers and warnings at the entrance in LED Display
4. Send the data in a central server where all other installed sites data will be collected as well
5. Platform for central enforcing agency to monitor real-time
6. Website platform where general people can access the information on people density of the installed sites
7. Historical Data showing occupancy data on different days and time on different locations
8. Other optional environment Data. eg Airflow sensor Data, Temperature etc
### Locations
Shopping complexes, restaurants, supermarkets, religious institutions, museums, halls, factories, stadiums.
### Application:
## Main Application
1. Central enforcing agency can monitor installed sites occupancy level real-time and if required take steps to control flow of people.
2. General people can access occupancy level information of installed sites and decide on the visit or view historical occupancy trend of a site and plan visit in less crowded times.
## Other usages:
1. Can be used to count people in Launches to stop overcrowding during festival time
2. To protect sensitive places like Museums, historical places from overcrowding.
3. People count in Stadiums and in other large events
4. Auto Gate closure if number exceeds a preset number.
## Commercial Usage:
1. Smart office buildings
2. Analytics Data such as find out number of shoppers in different times of Day, walking paths taken, most frequent stopping points, how long a person lingers at a place, what materials/products gain the most attention etc.. With these insights, a marketer can reposition products geographically to increase awareness thus benefiting customer’s needs and business bottom line.
