If you’ve ever been offered a service call to install a traffic counter but didn’t know what it was, watch this video. I show you how simple it can be to install an Orbit Shopper Track. This includes the traffic counter mounting and the setup at the network rack.
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🎥 Video Transcript:
In today’s video, we are doing a shopper track, which is a traffic counter in retail stores.
This is mounted right inside the entry door.
this has two little cameras on it which the covers are on right now.
this basically counts people coming in, people going out.
These things are typically pretty easy, but there’s a lot of variables. In this case we’ve already got a pre ran cable and we’ve got conduit and a four inch J box.
This mounting plate is not built to fit onto a J box. It’s just not wide enough. Screw holes don’t line up.
So if you’re going to do these you may have to do a couple of things. Number one,
You don’t always have something that is already installed. So you may have to carry a piece of conduit and a J box with you
and some C clamps so that you can mount it to the ceiling grid.
Sometimes it’s a drop ceiling. Drop ceilings are super easy because literally all you have to do is attach this to the drop ceiling.
Cut a little hole in it for your cable.
But in this case, since we’re using a J box, we’re going to use this little wall plate adapter. There are different sizes. You want to make sure you get the one that’s four inch that’s designed for a four inch J box.
And then our plate is built to attach to an actual wall plate.
Nice thing is, on these plates, there’s actually an image that shows you the front door and shows you an arrow. So it’ll tell you which direction needs to point towards the door.
We put the bevel facing up.
That should give us the clearance to get our clip in on the back end.
I’m going to go ahead and curl this in.
I do always carry longer wall plate screws.
Just in case you run into double drywall or something where the
mounting bracket is embedded too deeply. But in this case, regular wall plate screws are working fine.
Okay. It’s a little tricky to get that to catch, but there’s our completed mount, so we got the light towards the door.
We’ve got our orientation.
and we’re ready to hook up in the back and test.
Every shopper track is going to ship with a kit. You’re going to have a power injector. If it’s a pre ran, you’re going to be looking for cable. In this case
it is labeled. But you might have to tone and trace it if you don’t see one that’s labeled. So this time I’ve got one that’s labeled. It is shop T.
So shopper track.
this is a really well done. It’s actually marked port six.
and port six. Perfect.
I’m going to disconnect this.
So we can bring in our power injector.
We’ve got a battery backup down below.
There is no PDU. So we’re going to try to go to this battery backup down here.
And it really isn’t critical that this be on battery backup.
We’re just going to put it on the surge side.
Okay, we’re going to give ourselves power.
Shopper Track typically ships out purple cables, that way it stands out.
So we’re going to go back to the same port in the switch, which is port six.
So we got out. The “out” should go to the shopper track, “In” should be coming from the switch.
Okay. Try to keep everything is tidy as possible. We’re actually going to end up
velcroing this. Now I’ve got a link light here
and on the switch.
Then we’ll run out at the shopper track, make sure the lights on it, that it’s syncing up.
This kit includes a little floor map
and they use this for testing.
It’s got sticky on the back so it’ll actually stick to the floor.
This create a line so they can verify that the camera is actually counting people crossing that area.
We should be done in the back. We’re going to finalize up front.
There’s our complete install. We got a green blinking light,
and we’re gonna call him for testing.
Sam. Hey, Sam, this is Michael. I’m calling to do testing,
Where do I need to position this floor mat?
Just directly under the orbit as a horizontal strip.
That should be in place.
Customer started coming into the store right after I put down the strips, so I had to stop recording.
The tech support rep had me just walk in and out of the store ten times, doing ten loops.
He was able to log into the system and see my going in and out and making sure that the system was recording all of those.
Now, this call is from one of my direct clients. You might see these on field nation or work market every once in a while.
But this particular client prefers to use their own network of technicians, their own website, their own app.
And I made right at $200 for this job for about two hours worth of work.
So if you’ve ever seen these calls offered, I hope that this video will help you to feel comfortable taking those tickets. And if you’re interested in learning about my direct clients, click the link in the description below.
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