The Challenge
Over the years this much revered charity has implemented various visitor, vehicle & people counting solutions at its many European locations, each reporting locally and requiring the data to be collected by local rangers and emailed to their regional offices: The need was and still is; is to centralise the data so that RSPB can utilise these data streams, to better understand the needs of each location.
The Solution
The project is to be spread over a number of years and involves replacing sensors as they fail or come out of contract; as part of this project the need to respect the environment was paramount. Therefore, the types of sensors selected had to meet the needs of each data point and be sympathetic to the settings. These extended to: -
1. People counting and occupancy management at visitor centres.
2. Vehicle counting in various remote car
parking areas.
3. Measuring walkers, cycle users and
Equestrian.
In addition, the solution had to negate the current need to collect the data manually. The centralised data would be made available for comparisons via the online reporting portal; and be accessed from any web enabled device with a secure password.