Density, not identity.

The Crowd-Sense Collector

The Collector is a small USB-powered sensor — about the size of a stack of coins — that plugs into a USB socket and connects over Ethernet or Wi-Fi. It's supplied to you as part of your subscription: you don't buy it, install it, or maintain it. We do.

Capture starts within minutes of you plugging it in. There's no app to deploy, no captive portal, no opt-in friction for the people walking past.

What it does

• Listens — passively, for nearby Wi-Fi devices.
• Counts — how many devices it can see, grouped into five distance bands, across five time windows (1, 5, 15, 30 and 60 minutes).
• Discards — the device identifiers, on the Collector itself, before any data leaves it.

Only the counts ever leave the Collector. Density and trend, in real time, with no per-person record kept anywhere.

What it doesn't do

The Collector cannot, by design:

• Identify any specific person or device
• Track anyone across visits or across venues
• Read images, audio, or any other content
• Talk to your visitors' phones
• Build demographic profiles
• Send anything off the device that could identify someone

These aren't policy promises we could quietly change later. They're architectural — the Collector is physically built so that the data required to do these things never exists in the first place.

What you get

A live dashboard, a REST API, CSV exports, and webhook alerts — whichever you prefer. The data shows you:

• Density by zone and distance band
• Trend by time window — minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour, day-by-day, week-by-week
• Real-time signals you can hook to operational systems (cleaning, staffing, HVAC, capacity, signage, alerts)

What you provide

Crowd-Sense Collectors are designed to live wherever you already have USB power and Wi-Fi or Ethernet. Those two things are your responsibility at each site:

• USB power — a free USB port or a standard wall socket within cable reach. The Collector ships with the cable.
• Network access — your existing Wi-Fi credentials (WPA2-Personal or WPA2-Enterprise both supported) or an Ethernet cable to your network. Either works.
• A spot to put it — desktop, shelf, behind a screen, on a wall mount. Anywhere within reasonable line-of-sight to the area you want measured.

For outdoor and street-furniture deployments — lamp columns, civic infrastructure, exposed weather conditions — we co-ordinate the power, connectivity and enclosure with you as part of deployment design. Indoor sites are self-install.

Self-install in minutes

1. Plug into mains via USB.
2. Connect Ethernet, or pair to Wi-Fi.
3. Watch the status light walk through link → time-sync → capture.
4. Data starts flowing.

No civils, no scaffolding, no specialist trade. A typical town-centre, BID or pub-group rollout takes 10 minutes per Collector to place and another 15 to install.