Main entrance
The figure for the funding report: visitors per day, month and year.
Visitor counting in museums and libraries
Visitor numbers that stand up in a funding report, gathered without recording anyone. Visitor counting for museums and libraries, with CSV and PDF straight from the camera.
- A museum visitor counter at every entrance
- A library people counter without cloud or server
- Funding reports: visitor numbers per day, month and year
Visitors this year
48,216
until 30 September
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Context
The situation
Museums, libraries and exhibition venues report visitor numbers to funders, councils and boards. The figures have to be complete, comparable from year to year and gathered in a way that a public institution can defend. Many of these buildings are listed, with entrances that cannot be rebuilt for counting gates, and with a data protection officer who rules out anything that records visitors.
Counting points
What gets counted and where
Exhibition halls
Special exhibitions and rooms with their own limits, as zones of the building.
Events and evenings
Late openings and events, compared with normal days in the calendar.
Products
Which Vicodis products are involved
| Product | Role in a museum or library |
|---|---|
| Vicodis Visitor Counter | Counts at the entrance, keeps the history, exports reports |
| Vicodis Zone | Several entrances or halls with their own figures |
| Full-screen live view | Capacity signal on a screen for busy exhibitions |
Purpose
What the data is used for
Above all: reports. Any period as CSV or PDF, with location and device ID in the header, or a monthly report sent automatically to the administration through your own mail server. Interfaces for your own systems are described on people counting API, exports and reports.
- Funding and annual reports with complete visitor numbers.
- Planning of opening hours, guided tours and staff.
- Exhibitions compared by visitors per day.
On site
Installation notes for this environment
Historic entrances rarely allow new cabling or gates. A camera above the door, powered over the network cable, is usually the least visible option. School classes and tour groups arrive close together: mount high enough to separate people walking side by side.
For the data protection officer: no image and no identity is stored — see people counting and the GDPR.
- Discreet camera above the door, one cable
- Higher mounting for groups and school classes
- Count behind the ticket desk, not in the queue
- Monthly report by email to the administration
FAQ
Questions from museums and libraries
01
Are the figures good enough for funding reports?
They are complete and documented. Every crossing is stored on the camera, counts cannot be edited afterwards, and each report names the location, the device and the period. How well the camera counts depends on mounting height, lens, door width and light, which is why we recommend a test walk after installation.
02
Can the annual report be generated automatically?
Monthly reports can be sent automatically by email through your own mail server, with a CSV attachment. For the annual figure, you export the year from the dashboard as CSV or PDF in a few clicks. The calendar also shows the yearly overview with every month and day at a glance.
03
Do we need a sign at the entrance?
A short notice is good practice: a camera counts visitors anonymously, no images are stored, plus a contact. Many institutions add it to their house rules as well. Whether it is required in your case, and in which form, is decided by your data protection officer.
How many visitors does your entrance really have?
Tell us your camera model or your project — we check compatibility and come back with a concrete proposal.