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BlogAug 17, 2026Smart Cities
European tenders treat privacy as a technical requirement, not a promise. How counting requirements are structured, and the answers that survive evaluation.
BlogAug 17, 2026Smart Cities
Libraries, transit, city halls, campuses: how public bodies buy people counting, what the compliance layer adds, and how to write a spec that gets real bids.
BlogJul 2, 2026Smart Cities
Measure turnout and movement at festivals and city events: multi-entrance counts, arrival curves, dwell across the site, and camera-free outdoor sensing after
BlogJul 2, 2026Smart Cities
How to measure footfall in stations and interchanges: directional flow, peak surges, concession siting, and camera-free counting on a busy public concourse.
BlogJul 2, 2026Smart Cities
How to measure occupancy and dwell in plazas and parks: line-crossing vs area counts, camera-free outdoor sensing, and using it for design and maintenance.
BlogJul 2, 2026Smart Cities
Measure town-centre recovery the right way: set a baseline, track a recovery index, read dwell and repeat visits, and attribute the rebound to interventions.
BlogJul 2, 2026Smart Cities
How to design a city bike-count program: permanent vs temporary counters, siting, factoring short counts to annual totals, and the active-travel case.
BlogJul 2, 2026Smart Cities
Every way to count pedestrians compared: manual, thermal, computer vision, signal, and camera-free Time-of-Flight. Accuracy, privacy, night, cost for cities.
BlogJun 3, 2026Smart Cities
Footfall, occupancy, dwell, and flow data for event days: safety thresholds, staffing, retail prep, and signage timing, as used by Bernkastel-Kues.
BlogJun 3, 2026Smart Cities
What city tourism analytics tells a DMO: day-tripper vs overnight patterns, by-attraction distribution, seasonality, dwell, and peak versus typical days.
BlogJun 2, 2026Smart Cities
How cities should measure high-street footfall: counter geometry, capture rate, seasonality, weather control, and typical European weekday and weekend patterns.
BlogJun 2, 2026Smart Cities
Cycle path counter guide for cities: why bike counts matter, how cycle counting differs from pedestrian counting, and camera-free Time-of-Flight options.
BlogJun 2, 2026Smart Cities
How Traunstein measures footfall, dwell, and event impact on its pedestrian zone, and how other small European cities can replicate the model.
BlogMay 9, 2026Airports
Why Ariadne's signal-based people counting sits structurally outside EU AI Act Annex III biometric categories. Architectural analysis with citations.