Video analysis to maintain safe distance in supermarkets

Tempos Analytics, marca comercializada por ProdexTec, proposes a video analytics solution to be applied in these establishments in order to help comply with the recommended distance regulations between customers and workers in the checkout area.

The health crisis, caused by Covid-19, has put citizens in quarantine to try to stop its spread. In this compliance with the state of alarm decreed by the Ministry of Health, companies have been applying, as far as possible, solutions to facilitate telework for their employees. But there are sectors where this is not feasible. One of them is the food sector, of vital importance for supplying the population.

From small establishments (bakeries, fruit shops, butcher shops, etc.) even large stores such as supermarkets and hypermarkets, have implemented security measures to protect both their workers and their customers.

These include the use of masks, gloves, hand sanitizers, partition panels between worker and customer at checkout areas, etc. Although these measures have been well received and are regularly followed in most cases, it is necessary to increase the level of security and protection.

For this, the brand Tempos Analytics, specialized in video analysis for perimeter security and marketed by ProdexTec in Spain and Portugal, proposes a solution to apply video analytics in these establishments in order to help comply with the safety distance regulations recommended by health authorities.

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System features:

• Small-sized zones to avoid triggering the system with the passage of any person through the checkout area.
• Designation of critical zones: This feature allows maintaining distance between customers.
• Dependency of zones so that the system activates when a person moves from a non-critical area to a critical one.
• I/O module: The system's response can be made, to an alarm event, consist of turning on a light sign or a speaker to remind customers that they must maintain safe distances.