People Counting with the Admiral and Imperial NVRs

People Counting: entering and leaving chart

The people counting feature will keep a count of how many people and/or objects are entering (A -> B) and leaving (B -> A) a specified area. People crossing is a modification of the line crossing video analytics feature. Only one line crossing area can be set per camera; a shoulder size can also be set to decide how large an object would need to be to set off the people counter. People Counting statistics can be viewed for any specific amount of time throughout the day, or for entire days, weeks, or months.

Scenarios where you would use Face Detection Video Analytics

People Counting can give you a good estimation of the foot traffic at your business. It is especially useful at discovering trends, such as the discovering your surge and down times - the particular times of the day or the year when you business has more or less traffic on average. People Counting is normally used in retail for people, but It can be used with any moving object that is traveling a set direction. People Counting can be used in manufacturing to monitor products on conveyor belts by counting the objects as they pass a certain point on the line. People counting can also be used to count the number of cars that traverse down a road or enter a parking lot.

People Counting data can be downloaded from the NVR as a csv file and then opened in a program like Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets for analysis.

Limitations of People Counting

Professional People Counting devices for Retail use 3D Bluetooth, Wifi and Radio Signals to count people. With these devices, you can exclude or include employees by having them wear Bluetooth tracking devices. These devices cost around $10,000 and often have subscription fees on top of the initial investment; even still, they are about 98% accurate.

Our People Counting is less expensive and less accurate than these devices. Your NVR will not understand identity - if a delivery man comes in and out 5 times in a row, it will count that as five entrances and five exits rather than one person (but this same issue is present in the 10K devices). It will not exclude employees like a professional people counting device can.

Best Practices when using People Counting

When you set up People Counting, you are asked to define the estimated shoulder width of a person at your desired distance. (if you are using it track cars or packages, estimate the width of those items instead). Objects wider than 2 times of configured shoulder width, will be detected as 2 persons/objects. It is very important that you get this estimate correct, so you may want to have someone stand on the line to make sure that you are estimating correctly.

How to Configure People Counting

Setup step 1: enable People Counting (You must have already set up Line Crossing, as People Counting counts the people who cross a line)

Setup step 2: Define the estimated width of a person (or object if you are tracking cars or products on an assembly line)

You can view People Counting statistical data as a chart or download as a csv

You can view People Counting statistical data as a table or download as a csv

SCW Support is Here to Help

Video Content Analytics features are complex, in their infancy in terms of product development, and are sometimes difficult to set up. The Face Detection feature, in particular, is in Beta; it will sometimes detect what it thinks are eye, nose and mouth shapes in the folds in clothing or in bush/tree leaves. If you want help setting up any of our Admiral NVR Video Analytics Features, you’ll find that the tech support team here at SCW is here to help. We can assist you with optimize any of our VCA features to work in the best way possible for your application.

People Counting is available on these NVRs when combined with SCW Admiral Line Cameras:

The Admiral 4 Channel 4K NVR - ADM4P4

In stock.
Usually ships the same business day if ordered before 2PM EST.

A hard drive is required to store video footage on a NVR or DVR. You can use our Hard Drive storage calculator to determine what size hard drive you need.

$349.00

Recording

4 1080P cameras at 30 FPS
4 4MP cameras at 25 FPS
4 4K cameras at 30 FPS

40 Mbps incoming bitrate; 10 Mbps per channel

H.265 encoding

Software

VCA: Motion Detection, Line Crossing, Face Detection, Intrusion Detection, People Counting, Vandalism Detection
Video Content Analytics (VCA) Search
VCA Event based Email Alerts
Remote Footage Download
1 Click Firmware Update

Viewing

1 x 4K, 2 x 4MP, 4 x 1080p

Smartphone Apps
Tablet Apps
Windows Apps
Mac Viewing Apps
Internet Explorer Viewing

Hardware

1 hard drive bay
Rack Mount Tray Optional
Cat5e (RJ45) Ethernet to Network
Standard 3-Prong Wall Plug
4 SCWEasyConnect ports on back for Plug and play 2018 SCW camera auto-configuration
VGA Monitor Out
4K HDMI Out for TVs/Monitors
Footage Download via USB

The Admiral 8 Channel 4K NVR - ADM8P8

In stock.
Usually ships the same business day if ordered before 2PM EST.

A hard drive is required to store video footage on a NVR or DVR. You can use our Hard Drive storage calculator to determine what size hard drive you need.

$549.00

Recording

8 1080P cameras at 30 FPS
8 4MP cameras at 25 FPS
8 4K cameras at 30 FPS

80 Mbps incoming bitrate; 10 Mbps per channel

H.265 encoding

Software

Viewing

4 x 4K, 8 x 4MP, 8 x 1080P

Smartphone Apps
Tablet Apps
Windows Apps
Mac Viewing Apps
Internet Explorer Viewing

Hardware

2 hard drive bays
Rack Mount Ears Optional
Cat5e (RJ45) Ethernet to Network
Standard 3-Prong Wall Plug
8 SCWEasyConnect ports on back for Plug and play 2018 SCW camera auto-configuration
VGA Monitor Out
4K HDMI Out for TVs/Monitors
Footage Download via USB

The Admiral Pro 16 Channel NVR - ADMP16P16

The Admiral Pro 16 Channel 4K NVR - ADMP16P16

In stock.
Usually ships the same business day if ordered before 2PM EST.

A hard drive is required to store video footage on a NVR or DVR. You can use our Hard Drive storage calculator to determine what size hard drive you need.

$799.00

Recording

16 1080P cameras at 30 FPS
16 4MP cameras at 25 FPS
16 4K cameras at 30 FPS

160 Mbps incoming bitrate; 10 Mbps per channel

H.265 encoding

Software

Viewing

4 x 4K, 8 x 4MP, 16 x 1080p

Smartphone Apps
Tablet Apps
Windows Apps
Mac Viewing Apps
Internet Explorer Viewing

Hardware

4 hard drive bays
Rack Mount Ears Included
Cat5e (RJ45) Ethernet to Network
Standard 3-Prong Wall Plug
16 SCWEasyConnect ports on back for Plug and play 2018 SCW camera auto-configuration
VGA Monitor Out
4K HDMI Out for TVs/Monitors
Alarm Inputs and Outputs
Footage Download via USB

The Imperial 32 Channel 4K NVR - IMP32

In stock.
Usually ships the same business day if ordered before 2PM EST.

A hard drive is required to store video footage on a NVR or DVR. You can use our Hard Drive storage calculator to determine what size hard drive you need.

$2,299.00

Recording

32 1080P cameras at 30 FPS
32 4MP cameras at 25 FPS
32 4K cameras at 30 FPS

320 Mbps incoming bitrate; 10 Mbps per channel

H.265 encoding

Software

Viewing

4 x 4K, 8 x 4MP, 16 x 1080p, 32 x 960p

Smartphone Apps
Tablet Apps
Windows Apps
Mac Viewing Apps
Internet Explorer Viewing

Hardware

8 hard drive bays; supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10
Rack Mount Ears Included
2x Cat5e (RJ45) Ethernet to Network
Standard 3-Prong Wall Plug
VGA Monitor Out
4K HDMI Out for TVs/Monitors
Second 1080P HDMI Out
Alarm Inputs and Outputs
Footage Download via USB

The Imperial 64 Channel 4K NVR - IMP64

In stock.
Usually ships the same business day if ordered before 2PM EST.

A hard drive is required to store video footage on a NVR or DVR. You can use our Hard Drive storage calculator to determine what size hard drive you need.

$3,499.00

Recording

64 1080P cameras at 30 FPS
64 4MP cameras at 25 FPS
64 4K cameras at 30 FPS

320 Mbps incoming bitrate; 5 Mbps per channel

H.265 encoding

Software

Viewing

4 x 4K, 8 x 4MP, 16 x 1080p, 32 x 960p

Smartphone Apps
Tablet Apps
Windows Apps
Mac Viewing Apps
Internet Explorer Viewing

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Hardware

The Imperial 128 Channel 4K NVR - IMP128

In stock.
Usually ships the same business day if ordered before 2PM EST.

A hard drive is required to store video footage on a NVR or DVR. You can use our Hard Drive storage calculator to determine what size hard drive you need.

$7,999.00

Recording

128 1080P cameras at 30 FPS
128 4MP cameras at 25 FPS
100 4K cameras at 20 FPS

512 Mbps incoming bitrate; 4 Mbps per channel

H.265 encoding

Software

Viewing

4 x 4K, 16 x 1080p, 36 x 720p, 64 x D1

Smartphone Apps
Tablet Apps
Windows Apps
Mac Viewing Apps
Internet Explorer Viewing

Hardware

16 hard drive bays; supports RAID 0/1/5/6/10/50/60
Rack Mount Ears Included
4 RJ-45 10M/100M/1000M adaptive Ethernet Interface
2 1000M SFP Ethernet Interface
Standard 3-Prong Wall Plug
VGA Monitor Out
4K HDMI Out for TVs/Monitors
Alarm Inputs and Outputs
Footage Download via USB
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The Admiral Pro 32 Channel NVR - ADMP32P16

The Admiral Pro 32 Channel 4K NVR - ADMP32P16

In stock.
Usually ships the same business day if ordered before 2PM EST.

A hard drive is required to store video footage on a NVR or DVR. You can use our Hard Drive storage calculator to determine what size hard drive you need.

$1,499.00

Recording

32 1080P cameras at 30 FPS
32 4MP cameras at 25 FPS
32 4K cameras at 30 FPS

320 Mbps incoming bitrate; 10 Mbps per channel

H.265 encoding

Software

Remote Viewing

Smartphone Apps
Tablet Apps
Windows Apps
Mac Viewing Apps
Internet Explorer Viewing

Hardware

The Admiral Standard 16 Channel 4K NVR - ADM16P16

In stock.
Usually ships the same business day if ordered before 2PM EST.

A hard drive is required to store video footage on a NVR or DVR. You can use our Hard Drive storage calculator to determine what size hard drive you need.

$649.00

Recording

16 1080P cameras at 30 FPS
16 4MP cameras at 25 FPS
16 4K cameras at 30 FPS

160 Mbps incoming bitrate; 10 Mbps per channel

H.265 encoding

Software

Viewing

4 x 4K, 8 x 4MP, 16 x 1080P

Smartphone Apps
Tablet Apps
Windows Apps
Mac Viewing Apps
Internet Explorer Viewing

Hardware

2 hard drive bays
Rack Mount Ears Optional
Cat5e (RJ45) Ethernet to Network
Standard 3-Prong Wall Plug
16 SCWEasyConnect ports on back for Plug and play 2018 SCW camera auto-configuration
VGA Monitor Out
4K HDMI Out for TVs/Monitors
Footage Download via USB