[Michlib-l] People counters

[Donna Winter]

We started using battery operated people counters that stick to the door frame and use beam break technology at the beginning of the year. They count both ingress and egress, so we divide by 2 to get a truer number. Since they are on our "regular" width doors, it's pretty rare that more than one person goes in at a time, unless it's an adult carrying a child. We decided to go low tech with ones that we record the count monthly and reset them manually.

There are higher end ones that will wifi counts to you, but we didn't want to spend that many bucks at this time.

I ordered through wecountpeople.com Brand name is TotalCounter.

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Donna Winter, Automation Services Librarian
Livonia Public Library
32777 Five Mile Road
Livonia, MI 48154
ph: 734-466-2675

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> The Petoskey District Library is also interested, so please include
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> Mary Sue Prantera
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> The Canton Public Library is also interested in this information, so
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> Leo Papa
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> Department Head, I. T.
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> From: michlib-l-bounces at mcls.org [ mailto:michlib-l-bounces at mcls.org
> ] On Behalf Of Brandon D. Richards
> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 10:27 AM
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> Good afternoon! If anybody is willing, we're currently looking to
> gather recommendations for people counters. We're mostly concerned
> with getting an accurate count (people don't get counted twice,
> people walking side-by-side get accurately counted, etc) and having
> a simple way to retrieve and reset the data. Thanks!
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> Brandon Richards
> Technology Coordinator/Trainer
> Houghton Lake Public Library
> 4431 W. Houghton Lake Dr.
> Houghton Lake, MI 48629
> Phone: 989.366.9230
> URL: www.hlpl.org
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