[MCN-L] Electronic systems for counting visitors?
We just installed two Sensource units for our Special Exhibitions Gallery and it was a huge success. We are currently planning on expanding the units in our facility. Sandra J. Moore, MBA Director of I.T. 419.255.8000 ext. 7308 smoore at toledomuseum.org Toledo Museum of Art PO Box 1013 Toledo, Ohio 43697 On 1/17/2013 at 5:02 PM, in message D242BCE81E7DAD408D1F125A1DB5447725DBF2 at WAMEXCHANGE.walters.local, James Maza jmaza at thewalters.org wrote: Hi Nina et al - Don't have any experience with this company, but this sounds like what you are looking for http://www.sensourceinc.com/ hope this helps.. Jim Jim Maza Chief Technology Officer, The Walters Art Museum, 600 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201 (P) 410.547.9000 ext 339 jmaza at thewalters.org http://www.thewalters.org Diadem and Dagger: Jewish Silversmiths of Yemen October 27, 2012-January 21, 2013 Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe October 14-January 21, 2013 African Presence: Student Response September 15, 2012-February 3, 2013 -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Nina Simon Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 4:42 PM To: Jaki Levy; Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Electronic systems for counting visitors? Hi Jaki, We're explicitly NOT interested in requiring sign-in or tickets - these are free-flowing events with thousands of people walking in and out of a small space. We want to make the events as accessible and open as possible - we just want to know how many people attend. Thanks, Nina On Jan 17, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Jaki Levy wrote: Hi Nina - I imagine this could be accomplished very easily with some kind of ticket system / sign-in process. Every visitor that enters needs a ticket, even if they don't pay. Is there any way to require a ticket or sign-in of some sort, even if it's virtual / electronic? Buttons? A check mark? Virtual check-ins via onsite hardware? iPad checkins? I've done this kind of sign-in process for countless volunteer run organizations and it works wonders :-) - Jaki web: http://arrowrootmedia.com cell: 646-339-9410 On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Nina Simon nina at museumtwo.com wrote: Dear friends in museum geekitude, We're looking for a solution for our small museum to count people. Specifically, we have an increasing number of free days, and we'd really prefer for our limited staff and volunteers to spend their time interacting with visitors instead of focusing on getting a good count. That said, we'd like a good count. We have three wide entrances and on our busy nights, thousands of people will stream in. My early investigation has uncovered cheap IR systems that don't do well with multiple people walking through the same doorway together, or expensive video systems that seem like overkill as they do all kinds of non-counting functions. I talked to an engineer friend about us hacking together an IR system with two distance sensors for each doorway pointing out at an angle to be able to sense two/three people at a time, and we might pursue that, but he strongly suggested I first reach out to brilliant people in the field and see how you deal with this. How do you deal with this? Thanks! Nina ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ This message is a private communication. It may contain information that is privileged or confidential. Please do not copy or disclose it to others. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender of the delivery error by replying to this message, and then delete it and any attachments from your system. Thank you.
[MCN-L] Electronic systems for counting visitors?
It might not be exactly what you are looking for, but there is a product called Nomi (pronounced Know Me) that seems pretty cool. They use pings off smartphones to measure people coming in, how longs they stay, if they come back, etc. http://getnomi.com/ -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Sandy Moore Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 10:14 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Electronic systems for counting visitors? We just installed two Sensource units for our Special Exhibitions Gallery and it was a huge success. We are currently planning on expanding the units in our facility. Sandra J. Moore, MBA Director of I.T. 419.255.8000 ext. 7308 smoore at toledomuseum.org Toledo Museum of Art PO Box 1013 Toledo, Ohio 43697 On 1/17/2013 at 5:02 PM, in message D242BCE81E7DAD408D1F125A1DB5447725DBF2 at WAMEXCHANGE.walters.local, James Maza jmaza at thewalters.org wrote: Hi Nina et al - Don't have any experience with this company, but this sounds like what you are looking for http://www.sensourceinc.com/ hope this helps.. Jim Jim Maza Chief Technology Officer, The Walters Art Museum, 600 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201 (P) 410.547.9000 ext 339 jmaza at thewalters.org http://www.thewalters.org Diadem and Dagger: Jewish Silversmiths of Yemen October 27, 2012-January 21, 2013 Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe October 14-January 21, 2013 African Presence: Student Response September 15, 2012-February 3, 2013 -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Nina Simon Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 4:42 PM To: Jaki Levy; Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Electronic systems for counting visitors? Hi Jaki, We're explicitly NOT interested in requiring sign-in or tickets - these are free-flowing events with thousands of people walking in and out of a small space. We want to make the events as accessible and open as possible - we just want to know how many people attend. Thanks, Nina On Jan 17, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Jaki Levy wrote: Hi Nina - I imagine this could be accomplished very easily with some kind of ticket system / sign-in process. Every visitor that enters needs a ticket, even if they don't pay. Is there any way to require a ticket or sign-in of some sort, even if it's virtual / electronic? Buttons? A check mark? Virtual check-ins via onsite hardware? iPad checkins? I've done this kind of sign-in process for countless volunteer run organizations and it works wonders :-) - Jaki web: http://arrowrootmedia.com cell: 646-339-9410 On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Nina Simon nina at museumtwo.com wrote: Dear friends in museum geekitude, We're looking for a solution for our small museum to count people. Specifically, we have an increasing number of free days, and we'd really prefer for our limited staff and volunteers to spend their time interacting with visitors instead of focusing on getting a good count. That said, we'd like a good count. We have three wide entrances and on our busy nights, thousands of people will stream in. My early investigation has uncovered cheap IR systems that don't do well with multiple people walking through the same doorway together, or expensive video systems that seem like overkill as they do all kinds of non-counting functions. I talked to an engineer friend about us hacking together an IR system with two distance sensors for each doorway pointing out at an angle to be able to sense two/three people at a time, and we might pursue that, but he strongly suggested I first reach out to brilliant people in the field and see how you deal with this. How do you deal with this? Thanks! Nina ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ This message is a private communication. It may contain information that is privileged or confidential. Please do not copy or disclose it to others. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender of the delivery error by replying to this message, and then delete it and any attachments from your system. Thank you.
[MCN-L] Electronic systems for counting visitors?
Dear friends in museum geekitude, We're looking for a solution for our small museum to count people. Specifically, we have an increasing number of free days, and we'd really prefer for our limited staff and volunteers to spend their time interacting with visitors instead of focusing on getting a good count. That said, we'd like a good count. We have three wide entrances and on our busy nights, thousands of people will stream in. My early investigation has uncovered cheap IR systems that don't do well with multiple people walking through the same doorway together, or expensive video systems that seem like overkill as they do all kinds of non-counting functions. I talked to an engineer friend about us hacking together an IR system with two distance sensors for each doorway pointing out at an angle to be able to sense two/three people at a time, and we might pursue that, but he strongly suggested I first reach out to brilliant people in the field and see how you deal with this. How do you deal with this? Thanks! Nina
[MCN-L] Electronic systems for counting visitors?
Hi Nina et al - Don't have any experience with this company, but this sounds like what you are looking for http://www.sensourceinc.com/ hope this helps.. Jim Jim Maza Chief Technology Officer, The Walters Art Museum, 600 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201 (P) 410.547.9000 ext 339 jmaza at thewalters.org http://www.thewalters.org Diadem and Dagger: Jewish Silversmiths of Yemen October 27, 2012-January 21, 2013 Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe October 14-January 21, 2013 African Presence: Student Response September 15, 2012-February 3, 2013 -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Nina Simon Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 4:42 PM To: Jaki Levy; Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Electronic systems for counting visitors? Hi Jaki, We're explicitly NOT interested in requiring sign-in or tickets - these are free-flowing events with thousands of people walking in and out of a small space. We want to make the events as accessible and open as possible - we just want to know how many people attend. Thanks, Nina On Jan 17, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Jaki Levy wrote: Hi Nina - I imagine this could be accomplished very easily with some kind of ticket system / sign-in process. Every visitor that enters needs a ticket, even if they don't pay. Is there any way to require a ticket or sign-in of some sort, even if it's virtual / electronic? Buttons? A check mark? Virtual check-ins via onsite hardware? iPad checkins? I've done this kind of sign-in process for countless volunteer run organizations and it works wonders :-) - Jaki web: http://arrowrootmedia.com cell: 646-339-9410 On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Nina Simon nina at museumtwo.com wrote: Dear friends in museum geekitude, We're looking for a solution for our small museum to count people. Specifically, we have an increasing number of free days, and we'd really prefer for our limited staff and volunteers to spend their time interacting with visitors instead of focusing on getting a good count. That said, we'd like a good count. We have three wide entrances and on our busy nights, thousands of people will stream in. My early investigation has uncovered cheap IR systems that don't do well with multiple people walking through the same doorway together, or expensive video systems that seem like overkill as they do all kinds of non-counting functions. I talked to an engineer friend about us hacking together an IR system with two distance sensors for each doorway pointing out at an angle to be able to sense two/three people at a time, and we might pursue that, but he strongly suggested I first reach out to brilliant people in the field and see how you deal with this. How do you deal with this? Thanks! Nina ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
[MCN-L] Electronic systems for counting visitors?
Nina, A few years back we installed Trafsys Thermal Sensorshttp://www.trafsys.com/that track heads (apparently human heads are a different temperature than the rest of our bodies). These cameras take into account direction of travel (how many people are coming and going from a portal.) I'm not longer involved with this project, so I may be dated. I liked it because the data was easy to access over a web address and I feel like it was a reasonable price up against larger more complicated programs. It may be worth checking into. If you really wanted to 'hack' something, I'd try Kinects with Center of Mass in Processing... ;) http://www.trafsys.com/ Thanks, Liz On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Nina Simon nina at museumtwo.com wrote: Hi Jaki, We're explicitly NOT interested in requiring sign-in or tickets - these are free-flowing events with thousands of people walking in and out of a small space. We want to make the events as accessible and open as possible - we just want to know how many people attend. Thanks, Nina On Jan 17, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Jaki Levy wrote: Hi Nina - I imagine this could be accomplished very easily with some kind of ticket system / sign-in process. Every visitor that enters needs a ticket, even if they don't pay. Is there any way to require a ticket or sign-in of some sort, even if it's virtual / electronic? Buttons? A check mark? Virtual check-ins via onsite hardware? iPad checkins? I've done this kind of sign-in process for countless volunteer run organizations and it works wonders :-) - Jaki web: http://arrowrootmedia.com cell: 646-339-9410 On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Nina Simon nina at museumtwo.com wrote: Dear friends in museum geekitude, We're looking for a solution for our small museum to count people. Specifically, we have an increasing number of free days, and we'd really prefer for our limited staff and volunteers to spend their time interacting with visitors instead of focusing on getting a good count. That said, we'd like a good count. We have three wide entrances and on our busy nights, thousands of people will stream in. My early investigation has uncovered cheap IR systems that don't do well with multiple people walking through the same doorway together, or expensive video systems that seem like overkill as they do all kinds of non-counting functions. I talked to an engineer friend about us hacking together an IR system with two distance sensors for each doorway pointing out at an angle to be able to sense two/three people at a time, and we might pursue that, but he strongly suggested I first reach out to brilliant people in the field and see how you deal with this. How do you deal with this? Thanks! Nina ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ ___ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ -- Elizabeth Neely Director of Digital Information and Access The Art Institute of Chicago 111 S. Michigan Avenue www.artic.edu/aic 312-443-3669 *** Information Services Help Desk: (49)9-4000 StartIT - Technical Support on the Web https://startIT.artic.edu ***
