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Re: Safe: Set maximum capacity for any room, floor, or building

#81
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Viruses don't care about how many people are in a room, and this doesn't seem like something people are going to worry about much 10 years down the road.

At the same time, I'd much rather shop in a small neighborhood grocery store with 5-10 other patrons instead of 200. Trader Joe's and other retailers (at least in the bay area) have to delegate a full-time employee to the front door to throttle incoming patrons. This would free up that employee.

>This would free up that employee.

In my area Walmart has started making each aisle one way and counting people coming into the store. Just yesterday I went in and it's already devolved into no one following the directions on the aisle, no one seems to be in the slightest bit considerate about trying to give others space to go around. People were regularly reaching around someone getting an item and coming into close contact instead of waiting all of 5 seconds for them to get their item and move.

There are already plenty of news articles about customers doing increasingly outrageous things and attacking employees because they dared to tell the customer not to violate store policy around purchase limits, senior hours, mask policies, occupancy limits, etc. The fancy sign telling someone to wait will not free up employees because there will inevitably be a chunk of the population who ignores it outright and when they just walk in the door, others will follow. These policies are meaningless unless there's some actual enforcement.

Re: Safe: Set maximum capacity for any room, floor, or building

#82

I love this idea and I love how it looks. The design is top notch. Really hope to see this near me soon.

The stylized design makes my brain recognize is as just another random inspirational poster or an add, not something I should pay attention to. We have standard and widespread symbols already for stop/go which should be applied here in some form.

That's an interesting point. What would you recommend? Follow street sign structure?

Re: Safe: Set maximum capacity for any room, floor, or building

#83
post #52
post #30

A phone app could replace this right? Using the front facing camera you could run some image recognition to count the flow of people and show the statistics on screen. Put the phone on a stand and leave it running. Much cheaper.

Or you can just fingerprint the wifi/bluetooth signals from people's phones.

MAC address tracking is one approach but it's imprecise and with the proliferation of "things with antennas," you have to do a lot of reconciling on the backend to not count 1 person as 3 when they have multiple devices on them. Euclid analytics tried this. It's a common but flawed approach to count (use depending).

Re: Safe: Set maximum capacity for any room, floor, or building

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post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At the same time, I'd much rather shop in a small neighborhood grocery store with 5-10 other patrons instead of 200. Trader Joe's and other retailers (at least in the bay area) have to delegate a full-time employee to the front door to throttle incoming patrons. This would free up that employee.

>This would free up that employee. In my area Walmart has started making each aisle one way and counting people coming into the store. Just yesterday I went in and it's already devolved into no one following the directions on the aisle, no one seems to be in the slightest bit considerate about trying to give others space to go around. People were regularly reaching around someone getting an item and coming into close…

I agree with this. It's compliance will be contextual / regional / etc. This is why the system also support real-time alerts and safe analytics. In the event a place like Walmart wants to more actively enforce they can. Display is just the public facing feature.

Re: Safe: Set maximum capacity for any room, floor, or building

#85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Contagiousness is different than mortality. It seems quite contagious, but low mortality. But I am not in India right now - I am in the US where hysteria is everywhere and they are talking about continuing lockdowns for months longer, or basically indefinitely.

indeed contagiousness is different from mortality, but think of it like this, if more humans are infected at the same time, it'll overload the hospital capacities, this will 1- make it impossible to ensure proper care, since the hospitals will be overwhelmed. 2- also impact patients who require treatments for other illnesses, since systems will be busy and overloaded with the covid-19 patients.

Hospitals in the US are so lacking with patients that they are furloughing and laying off doctors and losing money. They never were overwhelmed and would not have been
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