People Counter - Visitor Counter - Footfall Counter for Retail Store & Traffic - Bi-Directional - Completely Wireless & Battery Operated

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Your circulation desk is frequently over or under staffed: People counters will allow you to pull reports and analyze traffic trends overtime. With determined traffic trends, you will be able to identify your busy and slow periods and schedule staff accordingly. By evaluating the data provided by your library door counters, you’ll be able to understand which areas of your library need more or fewer staff members to manage and monitor patrons as well as the best placement for promotional book displays and other important materials. How Software Can Help

Door counters work by sending an electronic beam across a door, entryway, or exit that senses people as they arrive or depart from your store to calculate the number of people who visit your business every day. Some counters provide a simple headcount, while others can differentiate between arriving and departing customers. A sleek, three door counter able to withstand the day to day rigours of operating in the toughest foodservice environments, the Jade JC3 offers excellent performance, efficiency and reliability. The integral CoolSmart controller helps reduce energy costs by up to 15%. You’ll also need to decide which type of people counter is best suited for each individual area. While your main entrance may only need a horizontal door counter, you might find overhead thermal sensors give you the best results in the children area or computer lab.If your establishment doesn’t have many unrelated parties entering on the same door swing, then this device may suit your needs. For example, the EPC-MAG1 Door Counter would work well in a small gift shop. Further, the device may work well in environments such as furniture stores. Many times furniture stores do not typically have many unrelated customers entering on the same door swing. A husband and wife or an entire family are known in the retail industry as a ‘buying party.’ Most of the time, a manager or owner will want to count a buying party once, and not count each member of the buying party. Since a husband and wife or a family will usually enter on the same door swing, then the EPC-MAG1 might suit your needs. The size of your entrance. If your building or store has a wide entrance that allows more than one patron to arrive or depart at the same time, you should choose an overhead sensor. A horizontal sensor might miss people who enter in pairs or clusters. Horizontal sensors work best on narrow entrances. Second, people counters can help libraries stay in compliance with state standards that govern such factors as labor percentages and technology usage. Library door counters provide the best detailed statistics to report so that state governments and taxpayers know how the money they provide is being spent. Door counter devices can help your business in a variety of ways. For example, they can help you figure out your busiest times of day, so you can avoid over- or under-staffing your store. They can help you determine which areas of your store get the most traffic, which can be useful for reorganizing to minimize congestion. They can also make it easy to identify your busiest and least busy days, which can be useful if you want to hold a sale or run a promotion. The bottom line is that they can help you serve your customers and manage your business more effectively by providing the data you need. If you need foot traffic counts in the per-hour range, consider using one of the bi-directional counters (which includes all of the overhead counters and the horizontal OmniCounter). Since the sensor captures ins and outs, your hourly traffic counting results will match up closer to the actual traffic trends throughout the day. Do people typically browse around in your entranceway?

To that end, the EPC-MAG1 can be considered to be a wireless door counter because it is an autonomous system that does not connect to any third-party devices. The only wire is the one that is used to connect the magnetic door sensor to the EPC-MAG1. Therefore, if you’re looking for a wireless door counter, in that it runs autonomously (by itself with no external help from other devices or networks), then the EPC-MAG1 may suit your needs. Method of Sensing: Because the EPC-MAG1 counts the number of times that the door(s) swings open, this device is only suited for certain types of establishments. If you have an establishment that needs to count every person that passes through the entrance (such as nightclubs and bars for occupancy totals for fire codes), then the EPC-MAG1 may not best suit your needs. This is due to the fact that multiple individuals can enter on a single door swing. Another example where the EPC-MAG1 may not best suit your needs is if it is common for more than one unrelated person to enter while the door is opened (for example, one individual holding the door open for another). An example of this may be a convenience store during a busy time. If any of these scenarios apply, then one of our infrared door counters might better suit your needs. IMPORTANT NOTE – When the EPC-MAG1 Door Counter will absolutely not suit your needs:

Armed with traffic statistics, libraries can make appeals for additional resources and technology, such as an expanded computer lab with faster, high-capacity broadband Internet access to best meet patrons’ needs. Libraries can also petition for additional staffing and hours of operation by providing the numbers of patrons using the facility on a daily basis. The ability to clearly demonstrate necessity is the key to a successful funding proposal — and that’s what a people counter can do. Horizontal vs. Overhead Counters