The bar's busy. Now we know.
Always-on density sensing for pub groups, gastropubs, music venues and multi-site hospitality. Priced for the operator, not the agency.
We ship a Crowd-Sense Collector to each of your sites. They self-install in minutes — plug in, connect, capture. You get density by zone, dwell, and hour-by-hour trend across the whole estate, in one dashboard.
Built for the operator who can't justify a £60–120k Meshh activation or a £45–85k app rollout for a single venue, let alone twenty. Not a per-table reservation system or a covers counter — leave OpenTable to do that.
How the year-1 cost compares
Indicative year-1 cost for a multi-site rollout (10–20 sites), always-on.
| Vendor | Approach | Year-1 cost |
|---|---|---|
| Crowd-Sense | Hosted Wi-Fi sensor subscription | £7k–£19k |
| Meshh (Limelight) | Wi-Fi sensors, agency-priced | £60k–£120k |
| Crowd Connected | Venue-app SDK + BLE beacons | £45k–£85k |
| Cisco Meraki / Aruba Central | Existing-AP overlay | £0 marginal — if you run enterprise Wi-Fi |
| OpenTable | Reservations + cover counts | ~£30k–£180k across the rollout |
Three honest answers
"We already use OpenTable. What does this add?"
Covers tell you who booked. We tell you who's actually in the bar at 7pm versus 11pm, in the beer garden versus the lounge, including the walk-ins your booking system never sees.
"How is this different from Meshh?"
Architecturally, very similar. Commercially, very different. Meshh prices for a Live Nation tour. We price for operators running multi-site hospitality.
"Will it work in a Victorian pub with thick walls?"
Each Collector covers about a 25m radius before the signal falls off; thick walls compress that. A typical 100–200 cap pub needs one; multi-room gastropubs or beer gardens, two-to-three. We size from your floor plan in 10 minutes before the trial.
Free 60-day pilot
10 Collectors across 5 of your sites. Self-install. Data live within the hour. Hospitality dashboard plus CSV export for your finance team.
You supply USB power and Wi-Fi (or Ethernet) at each site. We supply everything else.