Kingston Pier Breakwater Park · Kingston, ON
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Right now on the pier Mon · 10:46 AM
62
Moderate
people on the pier - give or take a few
Showing the last known reading. Live counts resume when the feed reconnects.
Busier than usual
Popular times
6 AM3 today · 2 usual
7 AM6 today · 0 usual
8 AM12 today · 3 usual
9 AM24 today · 9 usual
10 AM · now62 now · 23 usual
11 AM39 usual
12 PM49 usual
1 PM59 usual
2 PM56 usual
3 PM55 usual
4 PM63 usual
5 PM60 usual
6 PM65 usual
7 PM59 usual
8 PM49 usual
9 PM31 usual
10 PM21 usual
11 PM12 usual
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Kingston right now
21° Sunny · feels like 22°
14 km/h WSW
Rise 5:42a
Set 8:51p
Calm lake
Under the hood

How the count is made

No one is watching a screen. A small computer-vision model on a Raspberry Pi reads the public pier webcams and turns each frame into the number above.

  1. Sample

    Five City of Kingston pier cameras, one 640×360 frame each, pulled about every three minutes.

  2. Count

    A density model predicts a heat-map of where people are, then sums it to a headcount.

  3. Keep

    Only the integer total lands in the database and reaches this page. No frames are ever stored.

The five views overlap, so someone can be counted twice and sometimes geese are counted! Read the number as a strong relative gauge, not a turnstile. And after dark the infrared frames go near-black, so it records nothing rather than guessing.