A combination of staff guessing and entering time in attractions.io (on the iPad) and the Alton towers apps on people's phones reporting the presence of certain blue tooth beacons (black boxes in queue lines).Something that I’ve always wondered is how to they calculate queue times? I’ve never seen any cameras that look queue specific and I can’t imagine it being app or manual
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Problem is say someone's phone dies in the queue then 3 hours later on a return lap it comes back on, if that happens to enough guests it can confuse the system into showing inaccurate information.Ohh, that seems to make a lot of sense.
The Bluetooth beacon is an interesting concept, never knew that.
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That's still the procedure! They often have to override the BLE system.Back in the good old days we used to just look at the queue and pull a figure out of our derriere.
Bluetooth Low Energy.What does BLE stand for?
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Damn it! Now all I can think off is building an accurate queue time function!In theory, it could be worked out by knowing the length of que and roughly calculating the throughput to give a time. But they don't do it like this. No way......not sure if anyone does....as a like minded programmer, I am sure @ihaveaspergers could very quickly work out a function to calculate this. Shame the parks are not that bothered about it. But without the actual data, any formula would be useless. But it could be done accurately pretty easy to be fair.