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💡Principle
One of the main challenges for operators is to be able to collect complete, structured and accurate information on the number of passengers carried on board their vehicles.
This data is essential for understanding how many passengers use a network's vehicles, depending on stops, lines or timetables, for example. With this information, the transport operator can adapt its transport offer to passenger demand and offer them a better quality of service.
Pysae offers a connector with the IRIS passenger counting solution. This interconnection means that the occupancy rate of your buses and coaches can be fed directly into our AVM in real time.
The data collected is processed in real time via the connection to the on-board computer.
🔍 How does it work?
The interconnection between Pysae and IRIS works by sending HTTP requests to the sensors on each vehicle door to retrieve passenger count data.
Iris sensors for automatic passenger counting use Time of Flight (ToF) technology to operate. Here's how it works:
Infrared light emission: The sensors send infrared rays towards surrounding objects, including passengers.
Reflection of the rays: These infrared rays are reflected by the objects and return to the sensors.
Time-of-flight measurement: The time it takes for the rays to make the round trip (time-of-flight) is measured by the sensors.
Calculating distance: Using the time of flight, the sensors determine the distance between themselves and the various parts of the surrounding objects.
Creation of 3D images: This information is used to create precise 3D images of the objects.
Automatic evaluation: The 3D images are then reliably and fully automatically evaluated to count the number of passengers.
This advanced technology makes automatic passenger counting more accurate and efficient, delivering reliable results without manual intervention.
💻Configuration in Pysae
Configuration involves entering the IP addresses of the sensors in the supervision platform.
1/ Setting up the connector
Go to the "Integrations" tab at the bottom left.
2/ Adding sensor IP addresses
Here you need to enter the IP addresses of the sensors you (or your network provider) have defined. You can add IP addresses by clicking on the "Add" button and delete them using the recycle bin.
Don't forget to validate by clicking on the "Save" button.
3/ Door opening detection
You also have the option of ticking the ‘Door opening detection’ box. With this option, data is collected only when the doors are open.
This gives you greater reliability when counting passengers.
⏱Specific counters
IRIS sensors allow different passenger categories (Adult, Child, Pram, Bike, Wheelchair, Other) to be counted separately, both on the way up and on the way down.
Uphill: Pysae is able to manage the distinction between different categories if a specific uphill section (e.g. Wheelchair) is configured as it is in Pysae. Categories that are not configured in the supervision platform will be counted in general ascents.
Downhill: Pysae only manages specific ascents which means that all descent categories are counted without distinction.
📊 Reports and passenger count data
Once a journey has been started, passenger data is sent automatically :
To the Pysae supervision platform
Via the "Report" menu, then "Passenger counts".
You can view the data over a defined period by day and by line and also export this data in CSV format.
in the Pysae Driver driver assistance application
The counting interface is then displayed and the passenger count information is automatically uploaded. By default, the current stop or the next stop is displayed because the counts are updated when the bus is stopped at a stop.