Density - A modern infrastructure for anonymously counting people

@yulian_ustiyanovych it's available for order globally - https://density.zendesk.com/hc/e...

@ckalegi Actually, we had an email this morning from someone who provides software to TSA. "Coming to an airport near you... [you] [you]" ‹ that was supposed to be an echo.

@darrenbuckner My close friend and Density's very first pilot customer ever. I think we originally met b/c of Product Hunt, actually.

@andrewfarah indeed we did. As your very first pilot customer, I'm proud to have been witness to such great progress. You've come a long way my friend and it's impressive!

@richardfinnie What type of systems have you worked with in this space before? Accuracy is definitely an issue with tech in this space.

@abe_storey We cannot determine male v. female. But by design. Anonymity has been an important selling point for many of our customers. Definitely let me know if you'd like to get one andrew@densirty.io

@andrewfarah thank you! Emailing you shortly

@abe_storey Hey Abe, just following up :)

@blainehatab really appreciate that. The business model is arguably the thing that is most compelling and most contentious. People are used to buying hardware and sub-ing to services. Having a sensor-as-a-service is sort of a weird and curious middle ground that abstracts away the physical cost of good sold. Where else do you see this potentially applying?

@andrewfarah 100% agree on the sensor as a service. I personally think camera data and who gets the best camera data to expose and sell to big companies and devs is gonna be huge. Big x factor there is if privacy concerns will limit companies to only certain types of camera data which is why I think your service is so brilliant. Now ideally I'd like to have 3d cameras all over the city and in every building to do an insane amount of things with, but that's not how the world works. My dream would be having so much camera data that we can do live finite element analysis of the world to detect all potential building issues and crimes, but it would obviously enable a lot of things that aren't so positively aligned. Most likely it will be combo where some places are gonna only have your cameras and some places will allow 3d cameras. So more back to what you're doing, my first thought was matching up physical ad campaigns to user behavior in places that normal cameras can't go. First thought is like a condom ad in a bathroom, but I think there's bigger picture things than that if you think hard. And maybe just adding normal cameras to the rest of the store or facility like a grocery store in conjunction with your cameras would help detect theft in stores or show how purchasing habits are effected in private areas. It's really hard to pick off the exact benefit of only your private camera, but what gets me excited is that it extends the physical data gathering to places we couldn't go before. A platform to have your data combined with things like dropcams data into an campaign analysis platform would probably get some clothing store, retail store, or grocery store companies excited. I'm sure that some companies are doing this though. shrug.

@0gishere This is an awesome comment. Marketing speak only goes so far. Sometimes just showing what you can do is better. What do you mean by the societal infrastructure? I've got an idea but I'm curious. Also, how might a financial company visualize security?

@andrewfarah What I mean by societal infrastructure is like the structure of interactions that create different groups and different emotions. For example, your product could be used as great technology for testing new marketing efforts of a product, or pinpointing user experience at a cash register to the amount of objects you have...simple stuff like that that could be really powerful. As for my comment on financial companies, I was talking more about your video that shows the infrared images the camera sees. If a financial company did something like that to show how they receive and use data, I feel that people would trust their systems more.

@andrewfarah loved how you answered my Q...just applied for a job at Density :D

@alvinmilton Appreciate the share. What do you do? We love hearing from devs.

@andrewfarah Currently being pawed up at Bark & Co.

@jonathanpasky Would love for you to highlight this, too :). My email is andrew@density.io. What's yours?

@michalnaka 100%. We've heard from bus systems, subways, airports, and trains. Long term, we'd love the data to be available to the organizations who deploy as well as their travelers. I think there are some really interesting opportunities in open data.

@andrewfarah absolutely - my company works with transit & mobility providers and users around the world. Would love to keep in touch about this. working with a few cities right now on open sourcing occupancy data.