People Counting - Digital Watchdog MegaPix DWC-MVT4WiA User Manual

※ Configuration requirements of camera and surrounding area
1. The detection area should have stable and adequate light.
2. In order to detect the moving people or objects in the whole detection area,
camera shall be mounted at a height of 1~3 meter(s).
3. To make sure the camera shoots all the indoor scenes, the camera lens should
be to the detected direction and the camera had better be installed in the corner.
4. The proportion of the detection people occupies from 1/5 to 1/2 of the whole
picture.
5. The false alarm will be triggered if the indoor scenes have cluttered and frequently
changing lights.
6. With family members in the house, it is no need to enable this function.
7. This function is inapplicable to outdoors.

7.5.7 People Counting

This function is to count the quantities of the bidirectional people flow in the detected
areas by detecting, tracking and counting the head shape of the people. The counting
data includes the number of entering people, exiting people and remaining people. The
setup steps are as follows.
1. Go to Config→Event→People Counting. Please refer to the following picture.
2. Enable the people counting detection.
3. Set "Detection Sensitivity", "Entrancing Threshold", "Departing Threshold",
"Staying Threshold", "Counting Period", "Alarm Holding Time" and so on.
Counting Period: All, daily, weekly and monthly are optional.
Counting Reset: The current people counting will be cleared by clicking "Reset" button.
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