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Companies must spend a lot of money to lease appropriate space for their activities, as well as related heating, lighting, water supply, ventilation and cleaning costs. Companies should actively monitor the use of space to ensure that these huge costs represent a favorable return on investment.

A better understanding of how to use professional real estate space is a key factor in ensuring that space is used effectively and capital expenditures are minimized.

For example, detailed information about how many people occupy a particular space at a particular time of day will help make better decisions about how to allocate valuable real estate resources.

Certain parts of an office building can be prone to overcrowding at certain times, or underutilized meeting rooms can be better utilized. Even shrinking to a smaller venue may be beneficial.

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By installing people counting equipment at the door, the number of people entering and leaving the space can be accurately measured.

Terabee's time-of-flight technology can count several people at the same time, which facilitates accurate counting of people even in two-way traffic or when people close to each other move.

Terabee's cloud API can be used to manage data collection and perform analysis. This can also be achieved by real-time transmission of people statistics data to third-party platforms through standard protocols (such as HTTPS and MQTT).

The analysis of these data can provide insightful analysis and improve efficiency. At a practical level, these data can also help companies:

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Buildings account for about 40% of global energy use, and most companies spend a lot of money on heating and lighting. 1 Despite these costs, many companies still spend money on heating, cooling, and lighting unoccupied rooms every day.

For companies that want to significantly reduce these costs while making operations more environmentally friendly, using automatic heating, lighting, and ventilation that match the room occupancy rate is a practical solution.

The room occupancy data provided by the people counting system can be used to optimize HVAC and lighting systems as needed.

For example, the lights can be turned on and off automatically based on whether there are people in the room. The heating can be set to only heat specific areas as needed, automatically lowering when people start to leave the building at the end of the working day.

Ventilation can also be targeted at specific areas to directly respond to the distribution and movement of people.

Using people counting technology to automate ventilation, heating, and lighting systems can significantly reduce energy usage while significantly reducing carbon emissions and energy expenditures.

Studies have shown that in an environment with accurate real-time information about the number of occupants, demand-controlled ventilation has the potential to reduce energy consumption by more than 50%. 2

By accurately monitoring room occupancy, people counting solutions help directly calculate the density of people in rooms and corridors.

Values ​​such as real-time counts of occupants per square meter of room can be used to trigger screens or visual indicators (such as red and green lights) to inform people when they should or should not enter a particular space.

The method of collecting people statistics is important. Although traditional imaging technologies such as closed-circuit television or other vision-based cameras can provide real-time data and calculated indicators on room occupancy rates, they will also continuously capture the identification details of staff.

The nature of these systems introduces a series of privacy-related issues that employers may have difficulty overcoming.

Terabee's people counting equipment provides a solution to this challenge, which uses infrared time-of-flight (ToF) technology to collect essentially anonymous 3D imaging data.

The people counter uses invisible infrared light pulses to illuminate the space. This light is reflected from people and objects, measuring the time it takes for the light to reflect back to the sensor, allowing the device to calculate the distance to the surface in the scene, thereby effectively constructing a 3D depth image.

This method of obtaining spatially resolved depth information ensures that the data collected by the sensor can be used for accurate people counting, but unlike traditional cameras, the sensor does not collect any personally identifiable information.

This method ensures that people counting is in full compliance with GDPR and allows companies to use the power of this technology without worrying about privacy issues.

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Terabee's People Counting L-XL instrument provides a method that fully complies with GDPR standards to obtain accurate people statistics.

The instrument uses ToF technology to enable it to accurately monitor the number of people entering and exiting the door or corridor, allowing organizations to maintain accurate population statistics without worrying about the inherent privacy issues associated with other technologies.

People counting L-XL instruments provide 98% or higher accuracy. It can also filter out static objects and count multiple people passing by in two directions, monitoring whether they enter or leave a space. Up to five instruments can be combined to facilitate people counting in an open space.

This information is derived from materials provided by Terabee and has been reviewed and adapted.

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