Measuring People-Flow through Doorways Using Easy-to-Install IR Array Sensors
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Abstract
People counting has many applications in smart buildings. For example, adjusting HVAC systems based on the number of occupants in each room can save a significant amount of energy. In addition, security and safety of the building can be managed by determining the number and location of occupants. Different technologies and sensing platforms have proposed for accurate and efficient people counting. However, these solutions are expensive, hard to deploy, or privacy invasive. We investigate the possibility of placing an 8×8 IR array sensor at the doorways and counting the number of people inside rooms. Our solution is real-time, inexpensive, privacy preserving with much less deployment constraints compared to its competitors. The proposed solution deals with realistic and dynamic changes in the sensing environment by leveraging a combination of Otsus thresholding and modeling thermal noise distribution. We evaluated our solution via several controlled and uncontrolled real-world environments. The results show an average of 93% accuracy in estimating the number of occupants in rooms.
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