Clancy Counter
The tally counter, wired to your camera.
A small box on your network watches an ordinary security camera and counts the vehicles going in and out — every hour of every day, with a photo of each one. No loops in the pavement, no clipboard, no clicker.
What it is
Clancy Counter is a tiny black box about the size of a wallet with an AI accelerator, mounted wherever your camera feed reaches. It runs vehicle detection on the video, decides which way each vehicle travelled, and writes a row to its own database. You open its web page on your phone or laptop to see the count, watch the live picture, and pull a report.
Counts in and out
You pick which direction of travel means "in". The counter keeps the running total, the number currently in the lot, and the all-day total.
Keeps the evidence
Every count saves an annotated still. The Review page steps through them, so a disputed number takes seconds to settle.
Runs on its own
Start it by hand or schedule it. It reconnects to the camera on its own, survives a reboot, and rotates its own logs.
Stays on your network
Detection, storage and the interface are all on the device. It needs the internet only to check its license.
The interface
Screenshots from a running counter — .
How it works, briefly
Four steps, from camera to number. The long version — including what happens to a vehicle that stops halfway across the frame — is on the how it counts page.
It watches the camera
The counter opens your camera's RTSP stream — the same feed your recorder uses — and reads it frame by frame.
It finds the vehicles
Each frame goes through a vehicle-detection model on the on-board AI accelerator. Cars, trucks, motorcycles and buses; people and dogs if you want them.
It follows each one
Detections are stitched into tracks, so one vehicle crossing the frame is one vehicle — not one per frame.
It records the direction
When a track has clearly travelled one way, the counter files it as in or out, saves the still, and the number on the dashboard ticks over.
Licensing
One key per counter, or a key for the aggregator that collects several of them into one screen.
| License | Software | Cameras | Users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clancy Counter — one camera A single edge counter counting one RTSP camera. | Edge counter | 1 | — |
| Clancy Counter — two cameras A single edge counter counting two RTSP cameras. The key type exists ahead of the feature; current firmware counts one stream and ignores the higher entitlement. | Edge counter | 2 | — |
| Clancy Aggregator — 3 users Parent software that aggregates edge counters, 3 seats. | Aggregator | — | 3 |
| Clancy Aggregator — 5 users Parent software that aggregates edge counters, 5 seats. | Aggregator | — | 5 |
| Clancy Aggregator — 10 users Parent software that aggregates edge counters, 10 seats. | Aggregator | — | 10 |
| Clancy Aggregator — 100 users Parent software that aggregates edge counters, 100 seats. | Aggregator | — | 100 |
Each device activates once within 90 days of first boot and re-checks every 30 days. A network outage never stops the counting: there is a seven-day grace period.
Interested?
Tell us what you need counted and we will tell you whether the camera you already have is enough.