A public pool should have public visitor numbers
A swim centre is judged twice: on safety and capacity every open hour, and on attendance every budget round. Anonymous visitor measurement answers both, without a camera anywhere near the water.
Attendance, occupancy and season patterns, measured anonymously.
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Why swim centres choose Bumbee Labs
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Live occupancy
See how many people are in the facility right now against the capacity you set, and get an alert before a limit is reached.
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Attendance you can report
Continuous, auditable visitor figures per day, season and year, produced with one consistent method, for principals, boards and the annual report.
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No cameras where cameras don't belong
A pool is the clearest possible case for camera-free measurement. The counting is built to be anonymous, and there are no images anywhere in the pipeline.
The job to be done
A public swim centre lives with two clocks. The fast one ticks every open hour: how many people are inside right now, is the family pool over its comfortable load, does the front desk let the school group in. The slow one ticks once a year: attendance for the annual report, the principal’s questions, the budget round where every municipal facility argues for its existence with numbers. Most facilities answer the fast clock with staff judgement and the slow one with estimates from the till, and both answers become unreliable just when they are needed most.
Occupancy, without a camera in sight
A pool is the one environment where nobody debates whether cameras are appropriate. Anonymous counting measures the facility without optics: live occupancy against the capacity you set, zone-level load (pools, changing rooms, gym, café), and crowd alerts that give staff a few minutes’ warning before a queue forms at the door. Safety and comfort decisions can then rest on numbers instead of judgement calls, and the measurement itself never sees anyone.
Attendance that survives the budget round
Municipal facilities are compared, questioned and occasionally threatened with closure on the strength of their visitor figures. A facility that cannot produce credible numbers argues from the weakest possible position. A continuous series gives the facility what libraries using the same approach already have: auditable attendance per day, season and year, a consistent method behind every comparison, and the kind of evidence that funder and principal reporting is supposed to rest on. When the utilisation review comes, a facility with this data can show when its visitors come, how patterns have shifted and what changed after the renovation, and so make its own case.
Built for public procurement
Swim centres are bought and run publicly, and the measurement should be easy to procure against clear requirements: anonymity built into the method, no imagery at any stage, and evidence behind every claim. Our procurement guide sets out the requirements in specification-ready form, and the method behind the measurement has regulatory approval. The same platform also covers the wider municipal picture, from the swim centre to the city centre it sits in.
Having the large flows we have is a challenge. We constantly strive to have as efficient a station as possible. With the help of reliable data from the new measurement system, we can better plan where different service functions or stores are to be located and how we can adapt doors or passages.
Frequently asked questions
Can occupancy limits be monitored in real time?
Yes. Live occupancy is compared with the capacity you define, per zone or for the whole facility. Crowd alerts can trigger when a threshold approaches, so staff can act before a limit is breached.
Our municipality asks for visitor figures every year. Does this replace manual counting?
Yes, that is the main use. A continuous series replaces clicker counts and till-based estimates with auditable numbers per day, season and year. Because the method stays the same from year to year, year-on-year comparisons finally mean something in the budget discussion.
Is it appropriate to measure people in swimwear?
Only with a method built for it. The measurement is anonymous and uses no cameras, no images and no personal data; it produces only counts, flows and occupancy. That makes it suitable for exactly the environments where optical systems are unthinkable.
Can we see patterns like school hours versus public swimming?
Yes. Visitor patterns by hour, weekday and season separate the facility's audiences: when schools carry the load, when families arrive and what holidays do. Decisions on opening hours, staffing and programming need exactly that.
Compliant in a privacy-sensitive setting
The measurement is anonymous, aggregated and approved by a data protection authority, so a municipal facility can stand behind it in the most privacy-sensitive environment there is.