Nano AI People Counting Sensor
#1 People Counting Sensor in the World
Nano AI is bringing you two decades of experience in people counting. Nano AI is used by 500+ industry leading brands in 100+ countries around the world.
Nano AI Features
99+% Accurate People Counting
Our 3D stereo vision technology, combined with our over decade experience of AI tracking algorithms, enables Nano AI to achieve up to 99% accuracy in people counting.
We believe in the unmatched quality of Nano AI, which is why every device comes with a lifetime hardware warranty included in your VIP subscription option. No other company in the industry offers a lifetime hardware warranty — only V-Count does.
V-Count offers the world’s highest accuracy in gender recognition technology with AI on CHIP. This technology operates without recording, transferring, or uploading images to servers, providing a 100% GDPR-compliant solution.
People Counting with Nano AI enables you to exclude the staff to help you get the most accurate traffic data in your store. With Nano’s optional Staff Exclusion Solution, you will know the exact number of customers in your store and receive the purest conversion data while measuring customer to staff ratio.
V-Count provides the world’s most accurate age recognition technology with AI on CHIP, ensuring precision without capturing, storing, or transferring any images—making it fully GDPR-compliant.
Nano AI not only provides top-tier people counting, but it also offers advanced street traffic measurement, along with staff exclusion and gender recognition, making it the only device capable of doing all three. This feature allows businesses to accurately track how many people pass through their stores street, all without recording or transferring images, ensuring 100% GDPR compliance.
Nano AI is a Plug & Play people counter sensor. It’s quick and simple to set up. Just plug in, connect and configure remotely. Install under 5 minutes. We have installation services all around the globe but most of our customers do self-install cause it’s pretty easy. Don’t worry about calibration, we’ll take care of it remotely if necessary.
Nano AI’s Queue Measurement & Management solution can monitor self service desk or cashier queues. Using data derived from BoostBI, you can effectively manage long queues by opening additional cash registers or enhancing your team capacity through optimized staff allocation. This approach not only enhances customer satisfaction by reducing instances of cart abandonment, but also ensures that no sales opportunities are missed.
With its recessed mounting option, Nano AI is fully invisible in the ceiling. It is also one of the tiniest people counting sensors in the global market.
Nano AI provides an ultra wide coverage with a very high effective counting range and field of view, thus decreasing the number of counters needed and decreasing costs and improving the eco-footprint.
Families, friends, or couples, people often visit stores in groups. Counting them as separate individuals can negatively impact your conversion rates and KPIs. Nano AI people counting sensors can recognize the crowds moving together and count them as one customer.
Nano AI is designed to be fully compliant with GDPR. Our technology, which processes 3D depth data to ensure complete anonymity by never capturing personal details. With our patented AI on CHIP technology, data is processed on-device, transmitting only non-identifiable insights.
Powered by active Infrared lighting and ultra low sensitivity sensors enables Nano AI to be able to count in total darkness. Nano AI is the only solution that can deliver this in the global market.
Monitor your business’s venue capacity and occupancy in real-time with V-Count’s mobile BoostBI app (IOS / Android). This solution enables you to precisely track the current number of people in your space instantly. Nano AI sensor provides accurate data on your venue’s occupancy status, allowing you to manage daily operations more effectively, lower energy costs and make strategic decisions based on real-time information.
Nano AI with its built-in powerful antenna, provides robust Wi-Fi connectivity up to 40 meters, first time in the industry, allowing cost effective access to real-time people counting data anytime, anywhere.
Unlike other people counters that require a battery, Nano AI offers a battery-free solution. Thus, it prevents problems such as replacing the battery after it runs out and data interruption .Instead of manually obtaining the data like in battery solutions, our solution automatically sends the data.
Nano AI is designed to work for a decade withstanding temperatures between 0°-45°C. It is water-leakage proof and features a splash-proof casing to protect against ceiling leakages.
Nano AI includes a USB-C port for easy, eco friendly charging. It operates at 5V, improving sustainability for a greener planet. Nano AI is the only USB-C powered, true sustainable people counting sensor on the global market. External PoE Adapter Option: In addition to USB-C, Nano AI can also be used with the PoE splitter option.
Boost your productivity with our Rest API integrations across your existing apps. Easily connect point-of-sale (POS) systems, shopify or PowerBI and more integrations to streamline your workflow. Build powerful connections between our products and your apps now to optimize workflows and increase efficiency.
BoostBI – Dashboard & Mobile App
Easy Access Your Data. Anywhere, Anytime.
If you travel frequently and are unable to remain at your computer, but still need to monitor your stores’ status, BoostBI offers a solution. It frees you from your desk, allowing you to track foot traffic, monitor performance, and utilize advanced analytics, all from your mobile device. IOS and Android available.
Real-Time Footfall Data At Your Fingertips
- Accurate Insights: Depend on precise, real-time footfall data to understand customer behaviors.
- User-Friendly Interface: Engage with an app that’s as intuitive as it is powerful.
- Remote Management: Stay updated on multiple locations without being confined to one spot.
Key Benefits
- Comprehensive Dashboards: Monitor key metrics at a glance.
- Accurate People Counting: Get highly precise data for better decision making.
- Flexible Management: Manage your retail business from any location, at any time.
- Streamlined Operations: Use actionable insights to streamline operations and enhance efficiency.
Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about growing traffic, sales and efficiency with V-Count.
How can I increase foot traffic to my store?
Start by measuring how many people pass by versus how many actually come in — that capture rate tells you whether the problem is visibility or what happens at the door. V-Count's AI sensors count passers-by and entries with up to 99% accuracy, so you can test signage, displays, promotions and opening hours and keep only what genuinely pulls visitors in.
How do I increase sales at my store without spending more on marketing?
More sales usually come from converting the visitors you already get, not from buying more traffic. By comparing visitor counts to transactions you get a conversion rate, and small lifts in conversion beat expensive ad spend. V-Count's BoostBI dashboard shows footfall, conversion and peak hours together so you can fix the real bottleneck.
How can I reduce operating costs at my store?
Most avoidable cost comes from staffing, energy and cleaning running on fixed schedules instead of real demand. When you know exactly how many visitors are present by hour, you can align labour, lighting, HVAC and cleaning to actual occupancy. V-Count's anonymous counting and VCARE occupancy data make that possible without guesswork.
How many people actually visit my store?
Manual clickers and till counts miss browsers and undercount badly. V-Count ceiling sensors count every entry and exit anonymously with up to 99% accuracy and automatically exclude staff, so the visitor number in your BoostBI dashboard is the real one you can plan and budget around.
What are my store's busiest hours and days?
Guessing peak times leads to long queues at rush and idle staff when it's quiet. Hourly and daily footfall data reveals your true power hours. V-Count plots this automatically in BoostBI so you can schedule staff, deliveries and promotions around when visitors are actually there.
What is a good conversion rate for my store, and how do I improve it?
Conversion rate is sales divided by visitors, and you can't improve what you don't measure — yet most stores never measure traffic at all. Once V-Count counts your visitors accurately, BoostBI calculates conversion automatically so you can benchmark sites and test what lifts it.
How do I know if my marketing and promotions actually bring people into my store?
Track footfall before, during and after each campaign — a working promotion shows a clear lift in visitors in that window. V-Count ties marketing spend to real visits and conversion by location, so you can reinvest in what works and cut what doesn't.
How many staff does my store need, and when?
Staffing to a flat rota wastes money off-peak and hurts service at peak. Matching your staff-to-visitor ratio to real hourly traffic fixes both. V-Count's BoostBI shows visitor curves and can send real-time alerts so managers add cover exactly when visitors arrive.
How do I cut waiting times and queues at my store?
Queues form when staffing doesn't match arrivals, and they quietly cost you sales and satisfaction. By tracking arrivals and occupancy in real time you can open desks or tills before a line builds. V-Count queue and occupancy data trigger alerts the moment a threshold is crossed.
How do I forecast busy and quiet periods at my store?
Reliable forecasting needs a clean history of who came and when. V-Count records every visit anonymously, so BoostBI can show seasonal and weekly patterns and help you forecast demand to plan staffing, stock and opening hours with confidence.
How can a physical store get the same analytics that online stores have?
Websites measure every visitor, bounce and conversion; most physical sites measure almost nothing. V-Count closes that gap by counting visitors anonymously and turning it into e-commerce-style dashboards in BoostBI, so you can manage a physical location with the same rigour as an online one.
What is footfall, and why does it matter for my store?
Footfall is simply the number of people who enter your store, measured accurately and continuously. It matters because it is the denominator for almost every decision — conversion, staffing, rent, marketing ROI — and V-Count measures it anonymously with up to 99% accuracy so the rest of your numbers finally make sense.
What makes the Nano AI people counter so accurate?
The Nano AI combines Active Stereo Vision (3D depth sensing) with on-chip AI target tracking and HD depth resolution to deliver up to 99% counting accuracy, plus up to 90% accuracy on staff exclusion.
Does the Nano AI record faces or personal data?
No. Its AI-on-CHIP processes 3D depth on the device itself and transmits only anonymous counts — no image is ever stored or sent — making the Nano AI fully GDPR-compliant.
What can the Nano AI measure beyond entries and exits?
On the same sensor you can switch on real-time occupancy (VCARE), staff exclusion, group counting, child/adult differentiation, anonymous age & gender, street/impression counting and attention time.
Can the Nano AI count people in the dark?
Yes. Active Stereo Vision includes night vision, so the Nano AI counts accurately in complete darkness as well as bright light.
Is the Nano AI easy to install?
It mounts on the ceiling at entrances with a flush-mount option, supports PoE and WiFi, and streams straight to BoostBI. V-Count advises the exact sensor count from your floor plan.
How do I get Nano AI data into my other systems?
All counts flow into the BoostBI platform, which imports and exports via API so you can combine them with POS, CRM and building-management data.
How much does V-Count cost, and what is the ROI?
Pricing depends on how many sensors your site needs (driven by ceiling height, entrance width and number of doors). Most customers justify it quickly through better conversion, right-sized staffing and lower energy cost — request a demo for a tailored quote and payback estimate.
What add-on solutions can I run on the same V-Count sensor?
One V-Count sensor can power people counting, real-time occupancy (VCARE), staff exclusion, group counting, child/adult differentiation, demographic (age & gender) analysis and heatmaps — so you can start with counting and switch on more insight later without new hardware.