Ariadne

Ariadne is a people counting and crowd analytics company with its registered head office in Munich, Germany. Its main system, called Hybrid Fusion, joins phone signal sensing with Time of Flight depth sensing. The company says it uses no cameras and collects no personal data. Aviation is one of the industries it serves, alongside retail and rail.

The platform covers people counting, occupancy monitoring, queue management and visitor flow analysis. Related products include Ariadne Analytics dashboards, EaseLink for building systems and tools for employee scheduling, indoor navigation and visitor marketing. The site lists links to tools such as Salesforce, HubSpot, Power BI, Tableau and SAP. It claims accuracy of 95 percent or more in typical retail and airport setups.

The history page shows its link to airports. With the help of a research grant in partnership with Ferrovial, Ariadne deployed crowd analytics at Glasgow Airport. It later installed sensors at San Diego Airport, among other sites. It also names Deutsche Bahn, Chicago RTA and MediaMarkt as customers. The company says it works in 32 countries and has more than 12,000 sensors in use.

The firm lists offices in Munich, Upland in California, Athens and Singapore. Its structured data gives 2017 as the founding year. The text names Dr. Georgios Pipelidis as chief executive and Nikos Tsiamitros as chief technology officer. The company raised seed and Series A funding rounds led by Marathon Venture Capital. The website has a contact form, a careers page and a note that the team usually replies within one business day.