Design Your Perimeter with Engineering, Not Guesswork
Every venue is different. Gate widths, crowd flow patterns, lighting conditions, ingress timing, and infrastructure vary from building to building and gate to gate. Safience engineers survey your entry points, design coverage zones, and recommend sensor placement for both fixed and portable positions. The result is a coverage plan tailored to your venue, not a generic deployment template.
The Gate Survey: What We Assess
A Safience gate survey is a structured engineering assessment of your venue's entry points. It is not a sales presentation. Our team visits your building, walks every gate, and documents the physical and environmental conditions that determine sensor performance.
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Entry Point Inventory
We document every point of entry: main gates, VIP entrances, employee access doors, media entrances, loading docks, emergency exits used for overflow ingress, and any temporary gate positions used for specific event types. Each entry point is evaluated independently.
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Physical Mounting Conditions
For each entry point, we assess mounting options. Where can a sensor be positioned to capture a clear image of each person entering? What are the available surfaces? What are the height, angle, and distance parameters? Are there existing infrastructure elements (canopies, pillars, signage structures) that provide natural mounting positions?
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Crowd Flow Analysis
Crowd density, walking speed, and entry lane configuration affect sensor performance. We evaluate how people move through each gate during peak ingress. How many lanes does the gate use? Is there single-file flow or wide-open movement? Where do bottlenecks form? This analysis determines how many sensors are needed per gate and where they should be positioned within the gate.
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Lighting Conditions
Sensor image quality depends on lighting. We assess natural light direction (relevant for outdoor gates), artificial lighting placement, shadowing from canopies or overhangs, and the difference between day game and night event conditions at each gate. Lighting conditions may require sensor positioning adjustments or supplementary illumination at specific positions.
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Connectivity Assessment
For fixed sensors, we identify existing PoE infrastructure or recommend PoE drops. For portable positions, we confirm cellular signal strength at each location. We document which gates can be served by hardwired connections and which require cellular deployment.
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Coverage Zone Mapping
The final deliverable is a coverage zone map. Each gate shows recommended sensor positions, their fields of view, and the coverage pattern they create. Overlapping zones are identified. Gaps are documented. The map distinguishes between fixed positions (permanent coverage) and portable positions (event-specific coverage).
Fixed and Portable, Working Together
Most venues need both. Fixed sensors cover permanent gates that operate for every event. Portable sensors cover temporary entry points that open based on event type, attendance level, or venue configuration.
| Attribute | Fixed Sensors | Portable Sensors |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Main gates, VIP entrances, employee access | Overflow gates, temporary entrances, event-specific positions |
| Mounting | Permanent bracket | Tripod or temporary bracket |
| Connectivity | PoE (hardwired) | Cellular |
| Setup time | Installed once | Minutes per event |
| Relocatable | No | Yes, between events |
| Coverage pattern | Consistent, calibrated | Adjustable per event |
The Safience perimeter design works alongside your existing access control and ticketing infrastructure. RTIS sensors do not replace your turnstiles, ticket scanners, or credential readers. They add an identity intelligence layer on top of your current entry process. A person scans their ticket (your system) and is simultaneously compared against threat databases and your operator lists (Safience). Two systems, one gate, zero additional friction for the guest.
Every threat scan also searches for a missing child.
Learn about the dual missionStart with a Gate Survey
One day on-site. Every entry point documented. A coverage plan built for your building. No commitment, no construction, no disruption.