Centaman counts Australian Open crowd

For the event, MOPT wanted to be able to accurately count the pedestrian traffic at the entry/exit points in real time.

There was also a requirement from licensing to provide an accurate real-time head count for the new Grand Slam Oval area.

The challenge was to accurately count people going through five-metre-wide entrances without causing interference to the visitor experience.

Centaman Systems intalled laser scanners, which, when mounted directly over entrances, could connect via the existing network to a central PC running Traffic Insight people-counting software.

The scanners were commissioned to only detect objects in a certain height window, allowing the system to ignore small animals, birds and bags while accurately recording visitor numbers.

The Traffic Insight software logged counts from all sensors, providing real-time counts of population levels as well as hourly counts of pedestrian traffic in and out of areas.