The people counter application is one of a series of IoT reference implementations aimed at instructing users on how to develop a working solution for a particular problem. It demonstrates how to create a smart video IoT solution using Intel® hardware and software tools. This solution detects people in a designated area, providing the number of people in the frame, average duration of people in frame, and total count.

The counter uses the Inference Engine included in the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit and the Intel® Deep Learning Deployment Toolkit. A pre-trained, SSD neural network detects people within a designated area by displaying a bounding box over them. It counts the number of people in the current frame, the duration that a person is in the frame (time elapsed between entering and exiting a frame) and the total count of people. It then sends the data to a local web server using the Paho MQTT Python package.

The DNN model used in this application is an Intel® optimized model that is part of the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit.

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