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Method of evaluating the number of individuals present in a geographical area

  • US 20070161378A1
  • Filed: 02/04/2005
  • Published: 07/12/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2004
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of measuring the variation of the total number of individuals present in a determined geographical area over an analysis period, including distinguishing between variation in the population that is usually present in said area and the variation in the population additional thereto, each individual being in a position to use mobile equipment that is capable of being located, the method comprising:

  • at least one calibration stage comprising the following steps;

    generating a first request to obtain from a database the identifiers of mobile equipments that are active at least once in said geographical area during a calibration period; and

    determining for each identifier, an area flag representative of the fact that a habitual place of use of the equipment associated with the identifier is or is not situated in said predetermined area; and

    at least one measurement stage comprising the following steps;

    generating a second request for obtaining, from said database, first temporal data constituted by the total number of active equipments in the area, at various measurement instants in the analysis period;

    generating a third request to obtain, from said database, for the identifiers associated with an area flag representative of having a habitual place of use situated in said area, second temporal data constituted by the number of said identifiers that are associated with an equipment that is active in said area at said measurement instants; and

    measuring the variation in the total number of individuals present in said predetermined geographical area, during said analysis period, while distinguishing between variation in the population usually present in said area and variation in the additional population, on the basis of said first and second temporal data.

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