Story
Our Story
Every company has a founding date. Ours is 1989.<br /> But the story that matters is not where we started, it is the choices we made at every fork in the road.
About us
Who we are, What we stand for
Since 1989, we have been refining the science of counting people, turning raw movement into the intelligence that keeps the world moving safely, efficiently, and with purpose.
+37
years of experience
150+
customers all over the world
+98%
counting accuracy
+20k
equipped vehicles (trains, trams, metro and buses)
Who We Are
Acorel is not a sensor company. We are a people intelligence company.
Founded in 1989 by engineers, run by engineers, we have spent more than three decades answering one deceptively simple question: how many people are here, where are they going, and what does that mean for the decisions you need to make right now?
We serve airports, railway stations, transit authorities, retail spaces and smart cities, environments where the stakes of a wrong count are measured not in spreadsheet errors, but in overcrowded platforms, missed connections, under-staffed gates, and compromised safety margins.
Our clients do not come to us for sensors. They come to us because they need to act with confidence on accurate data. That is what we deliver.
Our Benefits
Our Values
Three core values guide every decision we make from designing our solutions to building relationships with our customers.
Innovation
We do not wait for the market to define what is possible. We invest in R&D, AI, 3D sensing and smart city research so that our clients are always operating with tomorrow's tools today.
Quality
ISO 9001 certified since 2005, quality is not a department at Acorel it is a daily discipline. Every sensor, every deployment, every dataset is held to the same uncompromising standard.
Ethics
We count people, we never profile them. Privacy-first by design means GDPR compliance is built into our sensor architecture no faces stored, no identities captured. Only flows.
Our Technology
Accuracy is not a marketing claim. It is an engineering outcome.
All our systems feed into a unified data platform that transforms raw counts into actionable intelligence occupancy trends, flow patterns, peak forecasting, and real-time operational alerts.
Our sensor portfolio spans three generations of technology, each developed in response to the real-world limits of the previous generation:
Stereoscopic 3D sensors
Reliable, cost-effective, and proven over decades in high-traffic environments
AI 2D sensors
An affordable alternative to 3D sensors, without compromising on reliability perfect for low-complexity sites or tight budgets.
Cameras
High-resolution cameras designed for computer vision and surveillance capturing the visual data your systems need to act, monitor, and respond in real time.
Privacy by design
Trust & Compliance
Our clients operate in some of the most regulated environments in the world. When an airport or a national railway deploys a counting system, their legal and data protection teams ask hard questions. We have the answers.
No faces. No identities. Just flows. Our sensors use depth maps and skeletal silhouettes. No biometric data is captured, stored, or transmitted at any point in the data pipeline.
We publish our privacy architecture in full. Compliance whitepapers, data processing agreement templates, and privacy impact assessment guides are available for download so your legal team can move as fast as your operations team.
Who We Are
Our Team
Acorel was created by engineers and has always been run by engineers. This is not an accident it is a deliberate choice that shapes everything about how we work.
An engineering-led culture means we say ‘it depends’ before we say ‘yes’. It means we test before we promise. It means our sales conversations are technical conversations, because our clients deserve a partner who understands the problem as deeply as they do.
But we are not a monolith. Acorel brings together production engineers, project managers, software developers, data scientists, a sales team that speaks both French and fluent infrastructure, and an administrative backbone that makes the whole operation run without friction.
Team size:
80+ professionals across all disciplines
Founding ethos:
Built by engineers, run by engineers
Domain:
R&D, Production, Project Management, Software, Sales, Marketing, Administration
Culture:
Human-scale company: agile, proactive, and close to our clients
Headquarters:
France serving clients in 50+ countries
About
Acomoove:
Our Innovation Engine
In 2021, we did something deliberate: we created a separate innovation engine : Acomoove to accelerate our work at the frontier of urban mobility and smart city intelligence.
Acomoove is not a rebranding exercise. It is an R&D accelerator, a co-creation platform, and a proof-of-concept laboratory designed to develop high-value solutions alongside clients, suppliers, and urban partners who share our ambition for smarter, safer public spaces.
If you have a specific operational challenge that requires an innovative approach, Acomoove is the conversation to start. We will evaluate your project, bring our technical depth to the table, and explore what is possible together.
Become a Partner
Become a Partner
Acorel does not grow through acquisition. We grow through partnership.
We are actively seeking qualified integrators who share our values companies that already serve clients in public transport, rail, air and maritime transport, or public and commercial spaces, and who want to extend their offering with world-class people counting intelligence.
What we offer to our integrator partners:
Readily available stock materials and certified hardware
Complete communication and marketing materials
Technical tools, integration documentation, and API access
Dedicated training programmes and ongoing technical support
A trusted brand that opens doors in the most demanding transport environments
Let's talk
If you are building something in this domain, contact us.
The best deals begin with a dialogue.