Giving Each People Counter a Name
A VT Logger collects counts from up to 16 non-logging modules. This means that each Logger handles up to 32 counting channels: 16 counting people entering and 16 counting people leaving.
At first the counters are called 00000, 00001, 00002, etc. However, you can rename them to something that reflects their function—Front_Door for instance. This helps prevent confusion about which doorway is being monitored.
- If you haven't yet done so, in the VT Setup software connect to a site (Select the Unit Select tab, choose your site and click the Connect to site button.)
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Go to the Channels tab.
- Select a Site. ("Biodata 828" in the picture above.)
- Select a Logger from the Logger Number list.
- Click the counter you wish to rename in the Logger Channels box. A dialogue box appears for you enter the name and other details.
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Type your new counter name into the Channel Name box. Each VT unit has two counter channels: one for counting entries and one for counting exits. We recommend giving the two channels the same name as when you press OK, the word IN or OUT will be appended to the channel name you chose.
- Make sure the Enable for Input box is checked for each counter you plan to use.
- Choose whether this counter is to count people going in or going out. (If you leave the direction as "None specified" then people going up-screen will be considered to be going in and people going down-screen to be going out.)
- You can rename the units of the counts. Initially the values are shown as "Counts", but you could change this to something else—"Visitors" for example.
- You can adjust the scale factor for counts which are constantly under or over. For example, if a VT count is 5% short of the actual count then set a counting scale factor of 1.05 to add 5% to the logged values. Keep the offset setting at 0 as this is not used in counting applications. (Note: you can instead set a scale factor for all counting channels in this site.)
- Click OK. Continue for the rest of the counters connected to this Logging Video Turnstile unit.
- Press Accept Changes before moving on to any other Loggers in the drop-down list. You can also create calculated channels here. These let you perform calculations on the count data and store the results in the logged data file. See the Video Turnstile User Manual for details.