Automatic Passenger Counting

Real-Time Vehicle Occupancy Data with Over 98% Accuracy

For transport operators, understanding passenger loads and travel patterns is vital for ensuring compliance with safety measures, as well as managing fleet and staff capacity planning. The ability to effectively gauge vehicle occupancy levels, when shared, can also make it easier for passengers to choose less noisy or crowded environments to travel in, ensuring that they are comfortable throughout their journey.

Icomera’s new AI-augmented video analytics module for Automatic Passenger Counting (APC), ICONIC APC, is part of its ICOmera Network Insights & Control (ICONIC) suite of tools and services.

ICONIC APC is an advanced, camera-based AI video analytics application which leverages cutting-edge machine learning technology, optical data from cameras, and geolocation, to count passengers with an accuracy rating of over 98%.

Transport operators can reliably monitor total occupancy levels from each vehicle, including boarding/alighting numbers per station, and total vehicle ingress/egress, all in real-time.

Compounding the Value of Onboard Surveillance Systems

Smart utilisation of assets is also always top of mind. With ICONIC APC, operators can benefit from the dual function of cameras for both APC and video surveillance. This greatly reduces the time and costs needed to install and maintain separate sensors or other pieces of hardware.

ICONIC APC is also hardware agnostic and is compatible with most video surveillance cameras, compounding the value of existing video surveillance systems. The solution can also optionally be integrated with third-party dashboards.

Pinpoint Accuracy for Unmatched Insights

ICONIC APC achieves a verified accuracy of over 98%, using a sophisticated blend of object detection and line-crossing capabilities to measure how many passengers are moving into and out of vehicles at any time.

This dynamic combination allows for the placement of “virtual tripwires” at strategic locations throughout the vehicle, providing a complete, real-time understanding of occupancy levels across the entire fleet.

Data Privacy Compliant

ICONIC APC processes all video analytics data locally, securely, and in real-time. By processing data on board the vehicle, transport operators significantly reduce data consumption compared to cloud-based solutions and, by not sending any sensitive data to the cloud for processing, ICONIC APC remains private and secure.

Moreover, all data collected by ICONIC APC is fully anonymised and no video data processed by the solution are stored. Operators gain valuable insights into how their services are being used, while passengers retain peace of mind that the onboard monitoring system respects their privacy.

ICONIC: An Intelligent, Multi-Purpose Solution

The ICONIC suite extends beyond APC, presenting a comprehensive range of software applications for video data processing, fleet and device monitoring, network issue detection, issue resolution, and more.

When ICONIC APC is combined with Icomera’s ICONIC Video Management System (VMS), operators can conduct real-time, remote device health checks and virtual patrols of vehicles directly from the VMS dashboard, in addition to live monitoring of vehicle occupancy levels.

This seamless integration provides a cost-effective alternative to sensor-based solutions, which require additional hardware installation, maintenance, and manual support.