[andrewfarah]

Corporate answer: big, hairy proprietary algorithms. Startup answer: straight magic, yo. Real answer: manual for this week. We're doing a couple things that don't scale to validate a concept.

For accurate, autonomous counting, we use this little guy -- https://s3.amazonaws.com/screenshots.angel.co/73/340163/7982...

We're gunning for city-wide, real-time movement.

[jackhammons]

What is that "little guy" called?

[andrewfarah]

he has a couple names: "little guy; wall•e (unofficial); density nano"

but what he's made of is two infrared distance sensors. measures ingress and egress.

[andrewfarah]

Total occupancy but larger spaces can be segmented however they might want (order line, dining, bathrooms, bar area, etc.) Just need to separate two sections with a sensor.

1 sensor... ingress = movement into one area out of an adjacent area. Simultaneously, that counts as an egress (that person having moved out of that adjacent area into the next).

[joshrotenberg]

Really cool. Signed up to hear more.

[joshrotenberg]

Is the count for total occupancy or patrons in line? (I haven't been in that location so I don't know the layout).