Monitoring the Number of Pedestrians in an Area: The Applicability of Counting Systems for Density State Estimation

Table 1

Synthesis of the case studies.

Cases	Symmetric in- and outflow	Error dependent on flow	Error dependent on	Error dependent on	Max. avg. error	Max. std. error
Case 1: uncorrelated flow	Yes	No	No	Yes	Limited	Limited
Case 2: symmetric demand	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Limited	Large
Case 3: nonsymmetric demand	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Large	Large