Audience density, not impressions
Independent site-level audience evidence for OOH and DOOH network owners. Density and dwell on every panel, without the multiplier.
We supply, install and host the sensors. Each Collector reports zone density and dwell brackets directly from its own observations. Your network gets a site-level audience-density feed for every panel, every face, every dwell zone. Independent of your ad server, your network operator, your DSP.
Not an impression-measurement product. We don't multiply device counts up to "eyes," and we don't sell against attribution. The deliverable is upstream: defensible site-level audience evidence you can publish to planners, agencies and rate-card buyers without methodology arguments.
How the year-1 cost compares
Indicative year-1 cost for a 30-panel network.
| Vendor | Approach | Year-1 cost |
|---|---|---|
| Crowd-Sense | Hosted Wi-Fi sensor subscription | £1.8k–£4.2k |
| Route (UK) | Industry-body audited panel + travel survey | Five-figure+ media-owner subscription |
| Geopath (US) | Industry-body audited panel + GPS modelling | Tiered media-owner subscription |
| Adsquare / Locomizer | Mobile-SDK audience overlays | £20k–£80k/yr per market |
| StoreBoost | Wi-Fi probe + DOOH triggering | Bundled with media buy |
Three honest answers
"Why not just use Route or Geopath?"
If you can afford it, you should: audited panel methodology is the gold standard for top-tier network reach. We're for the networks priced out of audited panels: street furniture, transport hubs, retail-park screens, place-based and indie operators. Often a complement, not a replacement: Route on the flagship sites, Crowd-Sense on every panel.
"Aren't you basically what JamBox or StoreBoost already do?"
Architecturally, similar passive Wi-Fi probe sensing. Methodologically, very different. We publish raw bracket counts and never multiply them up to "impressions." That makes us a fit for media owners who want to defend audience numbers under planner scrutiny, not generate marketing-grade headline figures. If you need a multiplier, you'll need a different supplier.
"Won't this trigger another JCDecaux/CNIL situation?"
The 2015 Paris refusal was about identity-grade Wi-Fi tracking with retention. Crowd-Sense Collectors discard device identifiers on the device itself; what leaves the box is bracket-aggregated counts. That's exactly the data architecture the ICO 2016 Wi-Fi Location Analytics guidance describes as compliant. The privacy posture that makes us defensible for UK councils is the same one that resolves the OOH precedent: we ship the DPIA template and signage artwork on request.
Free 60-day pilot
10 Collectors deployed at 10 panels of your choice. We supply, install and calibrate; you get a site-level density feed and a methodology write-up you can share with planners and agencies.
You supply USB power and Wi-Fi (or 4G) at each panel. We supply everything else.