How outdoor people counting and smart devices improve ski resort management
Ski resorts face a unique challenge in maximizing efficiency and customer satisfaction within a short winter season. With thousands of visitors navigating ski lifts, slopes, and facilities daily, managing flow and maintaining infrastructure are crucial to success. To stay competitive, resorts must streamline operations and ensure a seamless guest experience. This is where outdoor people counting and smart devices come in. Acorel offers counting technologies that optimize crowd management, reduce waiting times, and improve visitor safety.
Role of outdoor people counting in resorts
Acorel’s intelligent devices and outdoor people counting systems collect, analyse, and exploit flow data in real time. This helps to personalize the experience and meet visitors’ needs. Whether it is the slopes, infrastructure, or lifts, these technologies work unobtrusively to ensure efficient management of passenger flows.
Increasing the fluidity of movements by counting people outdoors
The use of intelligent devices for counting people outdoors enables ski resorts to regulate access to the various services in the resort in real time. Thanks to intelligent counting solutions, resorts can optimize their infrastructure based on the data collected. They can act on the fluidity of flows at ticket offices, on the slopes, at ski lifts, and in shops. The aim is to avoid areas of congestion to ensure skiers’ safety and enhance their experience of the resort. Historical data can also be used to anticipate peak periods.
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Optimizing teams thanks to intelligent devices
By tracking the flow of people outdoors, ski resorts can adapt their human resources to meet demand and improve the efficiency of staff management at the various services on offer in the resort.
Acorel’s Vision Pop software provides ski resorts with precise visibility of visitor numbers. They can monitor the number of people and adjust staff accordingly.
- At ski lifts
- At ticket offices and points of sale
- In rental shops and boutiques
Vision Pop performs an advanced analysis of visitor flows to limit operational costs when there are fewer visitors. A better distribution of staff improves customer service by adjusting staffing levels at peak times and guaranteeing rapid assistance to visitors.
Reducing queues at ski resorts
Waiting outside is generally not appreciated, especially in cold weather. To remedy this, outdoor people counting is an effective solution for ski resorts. With Vision Pop wait time monitoring system, resorts can adjust the flow of skiers in real time, reducing long queues at ski lifts, for example. Unlike traditional solutions, Vision Pop stands out for its precision, thanks to its Hella 3D sensors and computer vision modules. This ensures a more balanced distribution of skiers and considerably reduces bottlenecks.
- Reduces queues at ski lifts for faster access to the slopes.
- Improves the resort experience with better-managed restaurants, shops, and services.
- Speeds up traffic, allowing skiers to maximize their time on the slopes.
Predictive maintenance using intelligent sensors
To ensure good resort management, maintenance must be operational and not disrupt skiers. Acorel offers occupancy analysis solutions to improve maintenance operations. Thanks to the Vision Pop automated outdoor people counting system and Hella 3D sensors, managers can monitor visitor numbers in real time and ensure that maintenance tasks are carried out.
- Plan interventions intelligently during off-peak hours.
- Allocate resources efficiently by concentrating efforts on the areas that are most in demand.
Technologies used in intelligent ski resorts
Modern ski resorts rely on several advanced technologies, such as intelligent devices, to optimize the management of traffic flows in their areas.
There are several types of technology :
📡 RFID and NFC sensors : Fast, contactless access to ski lifts.
📷 Smart cameras : Tracking skier flows for better distribution of areas.
📊 IoT sensors : Real-time monitoring of weather and snow conditions.
📍 GPS tracking and mobile applications : Instant updates on affluence and slope conditions. Flow monitoring to better organize emergency response when needed.
Acorel offers outdoor counting technologies, accompanied by its Vision Pop analysis static software, to optimize flow management infrastructures as much as possible.
Examples of resorts using outdoor people counting
Val Thorens in France
The Val Thorens ski resort in France, also known as the intelligent resort, is a pioneer in the use of intelligent technologies to enhance the skier experience. Thanks to advanced skier tracking and real-time display systems, visitors are kept informed of how busy the lifts are and the state of the slopes. This approach helps to reduce congestion and offers routes that are optimised for traffic.
Aspen Snowmass in the United States
Aspen Snowmass in the United States is a ski resort that stands out for its innovation in visitor comfort. By integrating outdoor people counting and IoT sensors, the resort monitors the number of people using the ski lifts and the number of people on the slopes. A real-time application then suggests personalised itineraries to reduce waiting times at the lifts and avoid overcrowded areas.
To summarise, outdoor people counting and intelligent sensors are revolutionizing ski resort management by optimizing flows, reducing waiting times, and improving safety. Acorel’s efficient solutions enable resorts to forecast visitor numbers, adapt their resources, and offer skiers a smooth, enjoyable experience. In addition, these technologies reduce costs for resorts through better flow management while guaranteeing the quality of passenger services.
What is more, integrating such intelligent systems makes ski resorts more efficient. Not only are infrastructure uses optimized and overloads reduced, but the resorts themselves can preserve the environment while ensuring good customer satisfaction. By providing a personalized experience and observing data on skier numbers, resorts can offer a safer and more enjoyable environment.