{"id":1959,"date":"2016-11-21T16:28:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T21:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2020-09-03T14:29:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T18:29:38","slug":"cloud-based-people-counter-using-matlab-and-thingspeak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2016\/11\/21\/cloud-based-people-counter-using-matlab-and-thingspeak\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud-based People Counter Using MATLAB and ThingSpeak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, I noticed a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/matlablive\/status\/799195101348118529\">tweet<\/a> about a people counter using MATLAB and <a href=\"https:\/\/thingspeak.com\">ThingSpeak<\/a> being demonstrated at\u00a0Big Data Spain. They were able to detect over 1,500 visitors at their demo station.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/58-routh-m?requestedDomain=thingspeak.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1960\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/15\/files\/2016\/11\/People_Counter_MATLAB_ThingSpeak.jpg\" alt=\"People Counter using MATLAB and ThingSpeak\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The project uses MATLAB to create a cloud-based people counter by detecting faces with the Computer Vision System Toolbox&#x2122;. The raw people count is then sent to the ThingSpeak IoT platform for data collection in the cloud and further data analysis.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G9IdzMcWIbw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/58-routh-m?requestedDomain=thingspeak.com\">File Exchange<\/a> to learn how to build your own people counter using MATLAB and ThingSpeak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"overview-image\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/15\/files\/2016\/11\/People_Counter_MATLAB_ThingSpeak.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Over the weekend, I noticed a tweet about a people counter using MATLAB and ThingSpeak being demonstrated at\u00a0Big Data Spain. They were able to detect over 1,500 visitors at their demo station.<\/p>\n<p>The&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2016\/11\/21\/cloud-based-people-counter-using-matlab-and-thingspeak\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[256,3],"tags":[235,209,239],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2731,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions\/2731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}