Resources

The papers, the projects and the data behind the platform.

More than 25 years of counting, written down: the engineering, the case studies and the open data our customers publish from it.

White papers Case studies Video Open data Tender pack Accreditation

White papers

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Accuracy is King

Why counting accuracy, not feature lists, decides whether data gets used.

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Neural Networks vs Computer Vision for Counting

September 2023. Why background subtraction beats trained detectors for counting, and what SORT gets wrong.

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Counting by Tracking, Revisited

August 2024. Low-power detection, and why networks trained elsewhere fail at your site.

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Evaluating a Tender for a Counting System

The technical questions local government and enterprise reviewers should ask before they buy.

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Why We Collect Active Modes Data

The case for continuous multimodal counts over periodic manual surveys.

Case studies

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George Street, Dunedin

14 sensors through a NZ$100m streetscape upgrade. Read online, or download the PDF.

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George Street, Dunedin (PDF)

The Dunedin case study as a printable PDF.

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Whangārei shared paths

Fifteen count sites and cycling up 25 to 30% year on year.

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Whangārei shared paths (PDF)

The Whangārei case study as a printable PDF.

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Oxford Street, Sydney

Sensors under shop awnings through a separated cycleway trial.

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Oxford Street, Sydney (PDF)

The Oxford Street case study as a printable PDF.

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Heart of the City, Auckland

One of the longest-running computer vision counting programmes in the region.

Video

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Heart of the City

Why daily pedestrian counts matter to the city centre.

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2degrees case study

Store counting in daily use across the 2degrees network.

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Empowering sustainable transport

Solar Count Pods on shared paths and cycleways.

Open data

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Heart of the City pedestrian counts

Countculture counts for Auckland's centre, published openly under Creative Commons since 2012.

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Christchurch SmartView

Christchurch City Council's open data portal, carrying counts from the city's Countculture network.

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City of Darwin open data

City of Darwin's smart city data portal, publishing pedestrian counts from the city's Countculture network.

Tender pack

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Tender Review Guide

How to specify, score and procure people counting and movement analytics, with a scoring framework, cost template and question bank.

Accreditation

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FernMark Licence

Countculture holds FernMark licence 101194 from New Zealand Story, the official country-of-origin mark, covering the Count Pod AI Sensor and the Pulse Analytics platform.

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