Frigate on Home Assistant has something like this. It can track how long a “thing” has been sitting there. I use it to track how long my car has been sitting in the driveway. Frigate also can do person tracking and animal tracking. I’m sure I can make it so it tracks how long a person has been sitting in the frame.
As far as the barista and how many drinks they have made. This is a very difficult task. Technically speaking they can have the espresso machine trigger an action when a cup is made. Even then it’s damn near impossible to accurately track that trigger to the correct person in frame.
Essentially this proof of concept is possible but it is highly inaccurate and should be treated as a novelty and not scientific data, at least with the current technologies we have.
too bad a bunch of people are probably gonna get fired from their sole source of income while they work on their degree because their boss saw a number next to them on a camera and decided “that’s not enough cups”
Then when the person with 50 cups drops to ten because it’s now they who have to make the double cappufrapelattes with oatmilk, sprinkles, cream and a side of cheese toastie with pine nuts and rocket salad… but it’s too late by then for the student they sacked the day before.
As far as the barista and how many drinks they have made. This is a very difficult task. Technically speaking they can have the espresso machine trigger an action when a cup is made. Even then it’s damn near impossible to accurately track that trigger to the correct person in frame.
Force employees to wear RFID bands, solved. For a company I worked for the employees would have to stand on a mat to do a specific type of work, we did apply RFID tags to the soles and glued a bit rubber above, this did track who was standing there with the help of a receiver in the mat. With that method and combined with measuring when sandblasters were active and when people would hit the buttons for process steps this enabled an absurd amount of surveillance and quantification data for cheap. Luckily we were only allowed to use the data for research and had to anonymize it and made the workers council be aware of how it could be used to track employee work, who promptly did forbid it.
The owner of one company I worked for would come out to site every so often and stand over each worker with a stop watch. They’d time how long it took the fastest person doing the easiest version of the task to the task and then insist that everyone do that task X times a day.
The site managers told us to ignore the fuck and had to sit him down to explain why that wouldn’t work. Lo and behold, he’d be out the next month or so doing it again.
Then he’d decide how many workers were needed for other jobs based on his wildly inaccurate timings and wonder why deadlines were missed. What’s the point in paying someone competent to run your jobs if you’re going to interfere and fuck everything up?
Then he’d decide how many workers were needed for other jobs based on his wildly inaccurate timings and wonder why deadlines were missed. What’s the point in paying someone competent to run your jobs if you’re going to interfere and fuck everything up?
To feel in control and like you are doing Taylorism 100 years after its refinement.
Frigate on Home Assistant has something like this. It can track how long a “thing” has been sitting there. I use it to track how long my car has been sitting in the driveway. Frigate also can do person tracking and animal tracking. I’m sure I can make it so it tracks how long a person has been sitting in the frame.
As far as the barista and how many drinks they have made. This is a very difficult task. Technically speaking they can have the espresso machine trigger an action when a cup is made. Even then it’s damn near impossible to accurately track that trigger to the correct person in frame.
Essentially this proof of concept is possible but it is highly inaccurate and should be treated as a novelty and not scientific data, at least with the current technologies we have.
TLDR: this shit isn’t possible yet.
too bad a bunch of people are probably gonna get fired from their sole source of income while they work on their degree because their boss saw a number next to them on a camera and decided “that’s not enough cups”
Then when the person with 50 cups drops to ten because it’s now they who have to make the double cappufrapelattes with oatmilk, sprinkles, cream and a side of cheese toastie with pine nuts and rocket salad… but it’s too late by then for the student they sacked the day before.
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Force employees to wear RFID bands, solved. For a company I worked for the employees would have to stand on a mat to do a specific type of work, we did apply RFID tags to the soles and glued a bit rubber above, this did track who was standing there with the help of a receiver in the mat. With that method and combined with measuring when sandblasters were active and when people would hit the buttons for process steps this enabled an absurd amount of surveillance and quantification data for cheap. Luckily we were only allowed to use the data for research and had to anonymize it and made the workers council be aware of how it could be used to track employee work, who promptly did forbid it.
The owner of one company I worked for would come out to site every so often and stand over each worker with a stop watch. They’d time how long it took the fastest person doing the easiest version of the task to the task and then insist that everyone do that task X times a day.
The site managers told us to ignore the fuck and had to sit him down to explain why that wouldn’t work. Lo and behold, he’d be out the next month or so doing it again.
Then he’d decide how many workers were needed for other jobs based on his wildly inaccurate timings and wonder why deadlines were missed. What’s the point in paying someone competent to run your jobs if you’re going to interfere and fuck everything up?
To feel in control and like you are doing Taylorism 100 years after its refinement.