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How to measure
the real world

Working notes on visitor behavior, positioning accuracy, and measuring people lawfully.

Buyer's guide · 11 min read

Event attendee tracking: every method compared

Eight approaches, from manual counting to wearable positioning. What each genuinely measures, and where each one stops.

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Event analytics · 9 min read

Beyond the heatmap: what event organizers should actually measure

Heatmaps show where people stood, not whether anything happened. A practical KPI framework: attraction, engagement depth and value per square metre.

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Lead capture · 9 min read

Trade show lead capture: from badge scans to behavioral qualification

Most event leads are never contacted. The problem isn't the CRM, it's that a scan carries no signal about interest.

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GDPR · 8 min read

GDPR-compliant visitor tracking at events: what's actually allowed

Which measurement approaches hold up legally in Europe, and why a tiered model beats opt-in-only.

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Measurement · 8 min read

People counting vs behavior: why occupancy is not engagement

Three people standing in one spot for ninety seconds look identical to a counter. One was interested, one was waiting, one was lost..

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Technology · 7 min read

Indoor positioning accuracy, compared, and why sub-metre matters

Room-level, zone-level and sub-metre positioning answer different questions. What each accuracy tier can and cannot tell you.

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Perspective · 8 min read

Physical AI needs ground truth, and it can't be scraped

Language models had a corpus waiting for them. Physical behavior was never written down. Why it can only be sensed.

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