People counting with Cisco Meraki
Bumbee Labs counts visitors on a Cisco Meraki network by reading its data through Meraki's built-in Scanning API, not through Cisco Spaces. It anonymises and aggregates that data into visitor counts, dwell times and movement flows for your dashboards and the API. To start, you need a Cisco Meraki network and your permission to connect.
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What does Bumbee Labs add to a Cisco Meraki network?
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Runs on your network
Bumbee Labs works with the Cisco Meraki network you already run, so most venues can start without new hardware.
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Anonymous statistics
Bumbee Labs keeps only anonymous, aggregated figures from the Cisco Meraki data. Any personal data in it is irrevocably deleted, so no single visitor can be picked out.
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One platform
Counts from Cisco Meraki appear alongside your other sites and methods, in one set of Bumbee Labs dashboards and one API.
How does Cisco Meraki data become footfall analytics?
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Connect through the Scanning API
Bumbee Labs reads data from your Cisco Meraki network through Meraki's built-in Scanning API, once you have approved the connection.
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Anonymise and aggregate
After removing noise from the Cisco Meraki data, Bumbee Labs anonymises and aggregates the rest. Personal data is irrevocably deleted along the way, so only statistics remain.
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Calibrate to your venue
Bumbee Labs calibrates the anonymous Cisco Meraki data to your venue and turns it into visitor counts, time spent per zone, links between zones and the routes people take.
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Use the results
You see the visitor metrics from Cisco Meraki in the Bumbee Labs dashboards, and your BI tools can fetch the same figures from the API. Standard metrics arrive the day after the visit.
Which footfall metrics can Bumbee Labs get from Cisco Meraki?
On a Cisco Meraki network, Bumbee Labs measures with Wi-Fi, its method for covering a whole venue and the routes people take through it. Typical metrics:
- Visitor count (total) and unique visitors
- Dwell time, per zone and overall
- Visitor paths & flows between zones and between sites
- Zone data & correlation
- Passers-by and capture rate (passing → entering)
- Peaks & lows and long-run trends
Exact counts in and out of a single door call for cameras or 3D sensors next to the Wi-Fi data. The method-by-method grid shows what each method covers.
Can you count visitors on a Cisco Meraki network through its Scanning API?
Yes. Bumbee Labs connects to a Cisco Meraki network through Meraki’s built-in Scanning API and reads the network’s data there. It removes noise, anonymises and aggregates the data, and turns it into visitor counts, dwell times and movement patterns that you see in your dashboards and can pull from the API.
What you need to start: a Cisco Meraki network and your permission to connect Bumbee Labs to it. The Scanning API is already part of your standard licence. Most venues add no hardware for this and need no site visit, and the Cisco Meraki network keeps doing its usual job.
Bumbee Labs uses the same Cisco Meraki data for occupancy monitoring and for visitor counting, so a single source shows how full a building is and how people move through it.
Bumbee Labs also connects to Cisco Spaces; that integration has its own page, Cisco Spaces people counting. Wi-Fi people counting explains how the method works, and footfall data lists the metrics you can receive.
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Approved and validated
On a Cisco Meraki network, Bumbee Labs reads the network's data and produces anonymous statistics about visitors from it, with any personal data irrevocably deleted. Partners, customers and academia have validated how the counting works. Bumbee Labs is the company behind the only footfall method in Europe approved by a data protection authority.
At Ray our motto is customer success, and we are excited about our partnership with Bumbee Labs. Complimenting the seamless Wireless provided by Ray, our customers will now be able to leverage the deep analytics provided by Bumbee Labs and take informed business decisions to aid their growth.
Frequently asked questions
Does people counting with Cisco Meraki need new hardware?
Usually not. Most venues can start measuring with Bumbee Labs on the Cisco Meraki network they already run. They install nothing new and need no site visit, and the network keeps doing its usual job.
How does Bumbee Labs get data from Cisco Meraki?
Through the Scanning API built into Cisco Meraki. Once you approve the connection, Bumbee Labs reads the network's data there, then anonymises and aggregates it into footfall statistics for your dashboards and the API. The Scanning API is included in the standard Cisco Meraki licence, so it carries no extra cost.
Do we need Cisco Spaces to count people on Cisco Meraki?
No. On a Cisco Meraki network the data comes through the Scanning API that is built into Meraki and included in the standard licence, not through Cisco Spaces. Cisco Spaces has a separate Bumbee Labs integration with its own page.
Does Bumbee Labs also work with Cisco Meraki cameras?
Yes, Bumbee Labs supports Cisco Meraki cameras too. Measurements from different methods end up in the same Bumbee Labs platform, in the dashboards and the API. Book a demo and we'll go through your Cisco Meraki setup with you.
Does people counting with Cisco Meraki identify individual visitors?
No. Data from Cisco Meraki is anonymised and aggregated, and personal data is irrevocably deleted. Bumbee Labs keeps only statistics about groups of visitors, never about a single person.
Is people counting with Cisco Meraki GDPR-compliant?
Yes. Any personal data in what Bumbee Labs reads from Cisco Meraki is irrevocably deleted, and only aggregated statistics are kept. The counting relies on a method reviewed and approved by a European data protection authority.