People counting with Juniper Mist
Bumbee Labs can count visitors in your existing Juniper Mist environment, and most venues need no new hardware. It reads the movement signals and shows anonymous visitor counts, dwell times and movement flows in your dashboards and through the API. You need a Juniper Mist environment and permission to connect Bumbee Labs to the Mist cloud.
No new hardware. Your Juniper Mist network does the sensing.
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Why Juniper Mist + Bumbee Labs
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No new hardware
Your existing Juniper Mist access points and cloud do the work, so most venues add no new hardware.
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Privacy-first
Signals become anonymous, aggregated statistics. No individual is identified at any point.
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One platform
Metrics land in Bumbee Labs dashboards and the API, comparable across all your sites.
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Sustainable measurement
One cloud connection means that for most venues no extra hardware is built or shipped, and nothing extra becomes e-waste.
Getting started with Juniper Mist
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Connect to the Mist cloud
Bumbee Labs reads from your Juniper Mist environment through the Mist cloud. There is no on-prem controller to add, and most venues need no new box on site.
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Filter & anonymise
The signals are filtered for noise, then anonymised and aggregated. Personal data is irrevocably deleted, leaving only statistics.
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Process & calibrate
What remains becomes visitor counts, dwell times, zone correlations and movement flows, calibrated to your venue.
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Deliver
Anonymous visitor metrics show up in your dashboards, and your BI tools can read the same data through the API. Standard metrics arrive the day after the visit.
What you measure on Juniper Mist
Wi-Fi is Bumbee Labs' whole-space method, strongest at covering entire venues and the journeys across them. Typical metrics from a Juniper Mist deployment:
- 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
For exact line-crossing in/out and live occupancy at a specific door, pair Juniper Mist with cameras or 3D sensors. See the full method-by-method grid.
Can you count visitors on the Juniper Mist cloud you already use?
Yes. The Mist cloud is the only connection Bumbee Labs needs. Through it, Bumbee Labs reads your Juniper Mist environment, anonymises and aggregates the signals, and turns them into visitor counts, dwell times and movement patterns, which you see in your dashboards and the API.
What you need to start: a Juniper Mist environment and permission to connect Bumbee Labs to the Mist cloud. In most cases there is no new hardware to add, and your network runs as it does today.
Visitor counting and occupancy monitoring both run through the Mist cloud connection, and your dashboards also show which zones stay quiet.
Read how Wi-Fi people counting works in practice, or check what data you get from a Juniper Mist deployment.
Curious what this looks like for your venue?
Juniper Mist vs other counting methods
Wi-Fi covers whole spaces and the journeys across them. Add cameras where you need point precision, or cellular for wide-area catchment.
| Capability | Juniper Mist (Wi-Fi) | Camera & 3D | Cellular |
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| Whole-space coverage | Yes | Partial | Yes |
| Exact in/out at a door | Partial | Yes | No |
| Real-time occupancy | Partial | Yes | No |
| Paths & flows between zones | Yes | Partial | Partial |
| Dwell time | Yes | Yes | Partial |
| Catchment / origin | No | No | Yes |
| Uses your existing hardware | Yes | No | Yes |
| Built-in privacy protection | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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Approved and validated
Mist signals are measured with the only footfall method in Europe approved by a data protection authority, and no personal data is kept.
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 Juniper Mist need new hardware?
Usually not. Bumbee Labs works through the Juniper Mist access points and cloud you already use, and there is no on-prem controller to add. In most venues, counting can start without installing anything new.
How does Bumbee Labs connect to Juniper Mist?
With your permission, Bumbee Labs connects through the Mist cloud and reads the movement signals from your Juniper access points. The Mist cloud is the only connection needed, so there is no on-prem controller to add.
Does Bumbee Labs replace Mist AI?
No, the two work alongside each other. Mist AI goes on running your network, and next to it Bumbee Labs adds a GDPR-approved footfall analytics layer for visitor counts, dwell and flows. That layer is built on the movement signals Bumbee Labs reads from the Mist cloud.
Do we need Mist Premium Analytics or Occupancy Analytics for this?
Mist Premium Analytics and its Occupancy Analytics feature are not required. The Mist cloud is the only connection Bumbee Labs needs. Through it, Bumbee Labs reads the movement signals in your Juniper Mist environment and applies its own GDPR-approved footfall analytics to them, which gives you visitor counts, dwell and flows without either product. If you run one or both today, book a demo and we'll work out the right route for your setup with you.
Does people counting with Juniper Mist identify individual visitors?
No. Bumbee Labs turns the signals into anonymous, aggregated statistics, and personal data is irrevocably deleted, so no individual is identified at any point.
Is people counting with Juniper Mist GDPR-compliant?
Yes. Bumbee Labs reads the movement signals through the Mist cloud, and the personal data in them is deleted at source, so only aggregated statistics remain. The method was reviewed by a European data protection authority, which then approved it.