Density (http://www.density.io) | San Francisco, CA, USA / Syracuse, NY, USA | Full Time
Open Positions
- Eng: Embedded Systems Engineer (Embedded Linux)
- Eng: Front End Engineer (React)
- Admin: Office Operations
- Ops: Strategic Sourcing Manager
- Ops: New Product Introduction Program Manager
We offer competitive salary and stock options. Contact [email protected] and include the information you think is relevant.
At Density, we build a small sensor that measures how busy a location is in realtime. Customers mount the unit above a doorway, connect it to power and WiFi, and use our API to access how many people have visited.
When we announced what we were doing last summer, we hoped technical companies and developers would reach out. They did. But so too did hundreds of others from all around the world and in completely different markets. Some with expansive, two thousand location networks, others asking for a few hundred, and many with just one set of doors they deeply cared about: airlines, SMBs, Fortune 500s, startups, ad agencies, country transit systems, etc.
We’ve since learned that “human load balancing” is a widespread and unsolved problem. Today, we believe our platform may democratize access to a fundamental piece of information that has simply been uncollected and lost.
It can! To accomplish this there'd need to be a custom iPhone app for a location and everyone that goes in would have to have the application installed and have their bluetooth turned on.
I did the Show HN. The original title was "Density Platform" because we just revealed our new sensors and the public facing API. Not sure why a mod changed it.
We’re using infrared sensors. Both the emitter and detector are on a single sensor, so we only affix our hardware to one side of a doorframe. This is different than break beam which requires hardware on each side of a door.
I believe the first point is referring to investors who haven't put money into your company. If you aren't currently raising money, you shouldn't waste your time talking to investors. Raising money is a long process, and can't be done part time. Some might argue that meeting for coffee can help build a relationship with an investor, which would result in making raising easier in the future. However, if your company is worth investing in, these relationships shouldn't matter when it comes time to raise.
The second point is referring to your company's current investors. A monthly update let's those who have a vested interest know where you're at currently, and what you may need help with. Investors should be doing everything they can to help a company. That's why this relationship is important.
We're essentially identifying patterns that occur in the voltage readout of two parallel sensors. Two different people, even if passing through without a gap, show enough of a difference in their pattern to tell them apart. It simply takes time to root out all of these granular edge cases.
Generally, we give the hardware away for free (circumstance dependent). We'd prefer to monetize the data. We don't really want to build a company on $49.99 / mo. There are a lot of other players in that game. Here's a picture of the sensors if you're interested: http://i.imgur.com/zLUMAG8.jpg?1
We posted Density a while back when we used mac address tracking (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7305097). We've since moved to a wirelessly connected door counter, would love some feedback.
So I need an RPi (finally, a reason to use mine...) and a supported video camera? What other devices are you adding and when? Any other examples other than this: http://crowsnestdemo.tumblr.com.
Open Positions
- Eng: Embedded Systems Engineer (Embedded Linux)
- Eng: Front End Engineer (React)
- Admin: Office Operations
- Ops: Strategic Sourcing Manager
- Ops: New Product Introduction Program Manager
We offer competitive salary and stock options. Contact [email protected] and include the information you think is relevant.
At Density, we build a small sensor that measures how busy a location is in realtime. Customers mount the unit above a doorway, connect it to power and WiFi, and use our API to access how many people have visited. When we announced what we were doing last summer, we hoped technical companies and developers would reach out. They did. But so too did hundreds of others from all around the world and in completely different markets. Some with expansive, two thousand location networks, others asking for a few hundred, and many with just one set of doors they deeply cared about: airlines, SMBs, Fortune 500s, startups, ad agencies, country transit systems, etc.
We’ve since learned that “human load balancing” is a widespread and unsolved problem. Today, we believe our platform may democratize access to a fundamental piece of information that has simply been uncollected and lost.