Patent ID: 7161482
Filing Date: 2007-01-09
Classification: G07C,G08B

Abstract:
1. An integrated electronic article surveillance (EAS) and people counting system comprising: an EAS system configured to detect the presence of an active EAS marker in an interrogation zone of at least one passageway of an establishment and to provide an EAS data signal representative of EAS data; a people counting system configured to count people who pass through said at least one passageway and to provide a people count signal representative of people count data; and an alarm management unit configured to accept said EAS data signal and said people count signal and to correlate said EAS data signal with said people count signal to provide a correlated output signal, said EAS system being configured to operate in a first power state and a second power state, wherein said EAS system consumes less power in said second power state than said first power state, and wherein said EAS system is configured to enter said second power state when said people count signal is representative of less than a first predetermined people count over a first predetermined time interval.