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What exactly did the Centro Español de Metrología approve?
Neural Pax people counting, done autonomously and automatically. The CEM is the body that says whether an instrument measures properly —the same one that approves a weighbridge or a speed camera—, and what it did was measure how far it gets it wrong and under what conditions, and put that in writing with its stamp.
Watch the scope, which is where the catch usually is: what is approved is that measurement, taken as the protocol lays down, with the camera where it has to be and with the field of view it requires. It is not the whole product, nor any installation you like. Fitted another way it counts just as well or just as badly, but it is no longer approved, and saying otherwise would be exactly what we criticise in others.
It is useful in exactly four places: justifying an occupancy figure to an inspection, negotiating a rent worked out on footfall, charging an advertiser by impressions, and comparing this month's figure with last year's knowing it was counted the same way. In those four, an estimate does not hold up.
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A written answer is enough to decide whether it interests you. To know whether it works at your site you have to see it on a real scene, with the image as it is and, on top of it, what the system understands from it. That is on the IRIS Neural website, which is the group's product.