[Michlib-l] Door counter feedback

[bellairelibrary at torchlake.com]

Here is a compilation of suggestions from my query about door counters:

We just replaced our door counters and ended up going with Trafsys 
DirectCountTwo. We have about the same number of visitors a day that you 
have and in the week they've been installed have worked really well! 
It's a beam counter. That version is able to record traffic in and out 
by hour, and is downloadable onto a usb drive. I believe they were about 
$600 a set.

Here's the contact information of the gentleman who helped me with the 
process:

Jim Fleming
Business Development Manager
Traf-Sys Inc. / Walker Wireless
https://www.trafsys.com/
(P) 412-275-3333
190 INDUSTRY DRIVE | PITTSBURGH, PA 15275
jim at trafsys.com

We went with Sensource. It might be pricy for your situation, but it 
might be worth getting an estimate.

There are a few listed under "people counters" on the No Reservations 
Recommendations site - https://nrr.ninja/

We upgraded our door counter right before closing for the shutdown, so 
we got it set up eventually ;)

We have always had Sensource, we used to have an interrupter that just 
counted door opening, but we upgraded to a POE (Power Over Ethernet) 
counter that has more data on a dashboard to evaluate busier hours as 
well as just entries. It's probably a little nicer than we need, but it 
has already been valuable. We have adjusted our hours based on the door 
counts we were able to track over time.

We've had one from People Counter for about 10 years. You just have to 
replace the battery once a year. It sends data to a computer so we can 
easily see the counts. I don't remember what we paid, but it keeps on 
ticking!

The Hamburg Township Library has been using SENSOURCE people counter 
since December 2013.

SenSource, 3890 Oakwood Ave., Youngstown, OH 44515-3033.

Phone: 800-239-1226

The company is very friendly to work with.

I also just had to replace our 'door' or 'people' counter too. We have a 
security gate that has both a people counter and the security alarm (for 
security 'bugs' in library materials). Only the people counter device 
broke but the material security alarm was still functioning. So, I was 
able to purchase a device that only counts people for a few hundred 
dollars vs several thousand dollars for a whole new gate system. Here is 
what I bought from Demco [1], in case it helps.

We are a similar size library and we purchased this from Amazon last 
March:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0061OP9EG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It was much cheaper than what we had seen on Demco and we've had no 
problems thus far. It's very easy to reset each evening. Good luck!

-- 
Cindi L. Place, MLIS
Director, Bellaire Public Library
bellairelibrary at torchlake.com
231-533-8814

Links:
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[1] https://www.demco.com/patron-counters
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