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How does the solution handle multi-ingress/egress points?

Could it be used for tracking population leaving during a fire drill? As often this is the first question asked by first responders, "Is anyone still inside?"

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So that's a really novel idea. It would be incredible to tell a first responder how many people we think are inside... accurately.

We just do installs at each entrance and then normalize.

This would be a reallly cool application if PIR's were capable of counting "horde" foot traffic, like a giant mass of people streaming out of a door during an alarm. I don't think that something like a PIR could handle that number of people, since it's just the single beam.

I really like you, for some reason. I think it's your green handle.

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