BossVision PRO Retail will give you accurate, actionable customer information, people counts, flexibly and while also collecting security information
BossVision PRO Retail & People Counting
BossVision PRO Retail analytics use new or existing CCTV systems and cameras to provide you with actionable intelligence about your business, big or small.
BossVision PRO Retail can detect customers waiting too long in line and send email alerts directly to supervisors. Over time this information can be collected and analyzed to better allocate resources.
Heatmaps of customer walk-through patterns provide information about sought-after products and the efficiency of various displays. Knowing customer flow patterns allows for optimal product placement and efficient floor setup.
Monitor your retail, banking, or heath care location while collecting data for a wide range of metrics:
- Count customer enter/exit, people count
- Generate actional business insight and intelligence
- Pedestrian count to compare against the number of people entering
- Crowds gathered outside the premises provide information about new signage or product displays
- People lingering in front of displays show product engagement
- Customers meandering around sales kiosks indicate confusion
- Customer enter/exit counts provide insight to the store’s busiest hours and conversion rates
- Post event, search for people in specific areas wearing specific colors, without re-processing, to detect suspicious people
- And more…
Read customer story and testimonial here. The customer is a luxury goods retailer specializing in leather, lifestyle accessories, and perfume. The challenge was accurate customer counts without replacing existing security cameras. The solution? BossVision Retail.
BossVision PRO Retail Events
BossVision PRO offers the unique capability to add as many events and event rules to each of your cameras – meaning that with the same camera you can count people entering, generate a heatmap of paths taken, and look for after-hours intrusions.
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| Activity | Detect any moving object activity in a zone, can be limited to people or people with carts, etc. |
| Capacity | Detect when too many people are around a valuable display or waiting for help from support staff. |
| Camera Tampering & Quality Loss | Detect when a camera view has been obscured or blocked, either unintentionally or maliciously. |
| Coverage | Monitor periods of activity/non-activity around counters or service desks to ensure staff are present. |
| Direction | Detect people moving in the user specified direction. |
| Dwell Time | Log the time spent by customers in various store areas, know where and for how long customers tend to linger. |
| Enter/Exit | Detect people entering or exiting marked areas or people entering employee only areas. |
| Input/Output | Count the numbers of people passing through a region to get queue service rate and the renege percentage. |
| Intrusion | Detect when an object enters into a restricted area. |
| Loitering | Detect people milling around. |
| Object Taken | Detect when a monitored object is removed from its place. |
| People Counting | Count the customers entering and exiting the facility. This information can be graphed, reviewed, or exported as a CSV file. |
| Queue Density | Notify staff if queue areas are full, ensuring short wait times. |
| Smoke/Fire Detection | Visually detect fire and smoke in camera views. |
| Throughput | Detect objects crossing user specified edges of the zone. |
Retail User Story: BossVision PRO/ Boss Life Security
“The BossVision/Boss life Security integrated system provides a double duty of security and business intelligence video analytics. We are able to protect our stores, products, and people while also offering other business departments metrics to improve their operations and sales revenue.” – Director of Loss Prevention
Challenge
An internationally known, high-end retailer wanted a solution that would integrate a video surveillance system and video analytics into one easy-to-manage system. They tested several competing systems in their highest trafficked store in Los Angeles, California on Rodeo Drive. Their goals for the test included an accurate people counting system, easy-to-use video management system and a server that could handle all the systems without requiring additional expenses and maintenance. After 90 days of testing, they decided on the BossVision and Boss Life Security integrated solution.
About the customer:
- Luxury goods retailer specializing in leather, lifestyle accessories and perfumery
- Founded in 1837
- Over 10,000 employees with locations around the world
- BossVision Retail now used in all North American branches
Solution
The retailer installed BossVision Video Analytics integrated with Boss Life Security Enterprise-Series network video recorders (NVRs) throughout their US stores. The seamless integration between BossVision video analytics and Boss Life Security VMS software makes it possible to use a wide range of video analytic rules on any camera for both security and business intelligence purposes. This retail company uses powerful BossVision video analytics to count people entering their stores as well as to detect people loitering after hours. BossVision video analytics has provided the retail stores with 98% accuracy in counting customer traffic throughout their stores.
“BossVision video analytics gave us accurate counts of customer entry and exits without the need for a dedicated camera over the door,” said the Director of Loss Prevention. “Competing products we tested required using a dedicated camera to conduct people counting and still had problems with groups of people coming in at the same time.”
The intelligent features within the BossVision and Boss Life Security system provided detail and a high level of accuracy to analyze video footage and collect better business data. BossVision video analytics provides intuitive statistical information on people’s activities in the stores and keeps hourly logs of how many customers have entered and exited a store. Additionally, they can count how many cars come in and out of their parking lots and monitor the perimeter of the building. These statistics are used to measure and report on sales to improve on the overall sales.
Since the BossVision PRO is an Boss Life Security Certified Software Application, it is directly installed on the Enterprise-Series recorder without additional computers to run the analytic software. “We invested in a better server to run all of our applications including BossVision Video Analytics on one NVR,” said the Director of Loss Prevention. “The BossVision/Boss Life Security integrated system saved us additional hardware and maintenance expenses.”
Store employees control the PTZ cameras within the Boss Life Security client to better investigate the events detected by BossVision VA and create optimal store views. Additionally, BossVision VA sends soft triggers to the Boss Life Security software to alert the occurrence of specific events to record video when those take place. For example, without a gate around the perimeter of the stores, they can easily monitor and view activity outside of the facility at night from the exacqVision client or mobile app when alerted by BossVision VA, if someone is outside the building after hours. Security staff easily conduct investigations with the powerful Boss Life Security thumbnail and timeline search capabilities.
Results
The BossVision PRO and Boss Life Security integrated solution improves all aspects of their business. By having the accurate customer counts from the video analytics integrated into the VMS software, they have accurate business intelligence data to provide to their operations and sales teams to use to drive more store traffic and adjust store promotions based on the metrics provided.
Benefits
- All-in-one solution for video surveillance and analytics
- Improves store operations and sales revenue
- Reliable operation with no maintenance
- Saves time and money
BossVision PRO Retail Sample Videos
360 People counting & Heatmap – BossVision PRO is fully set up to process video from 360 degree cameras, allowing you to cover more area with lower cameras. Here you can see people counting and a heatmap of motion through the view.
BossVision PRO Retail Queue Length Detector – Detect over-long queues, and send notifications to open more registers. BossVision queue length detector is part of BossVision PRO Retail, and can be used in a variety of ways, including immediate reaction (sending staff to open more lines), or for the future, to better estimate the staff requirements for different shifts.
Dwell & Customer Counting in One View– BossVision video analytics used in two different capacities for the retail domain. Count customers as they enter and notify when dwell times exceed a few minutes – indicating that customers may have questions or find specific displays of interest.
BossVision PRO Retail Overview– Many more BossVision Retail events are available, and with our unique event set-up, you can add as many events as desired to each camera.