Real-time monitoring and alerting for capacity limits

Purpose

 1.1. Automate real-time monitoring of pool hall occupancy, enforcing capacity limits for legal and safety compliance.
 1.2. Automator observes live counts via sensor/network input, triggers automated alerts when thresholds approach or breach.
 1.3. Automates dashboard reports, escalation to managers, logs all incidents for audits.
 1.4. Automation ensures swift and accurate adherence to maximum occupancy, reducing human error, supporting venue licensing.

Trigger Conditions

 2.1. Live occupancy sensor or counter data feeds update system at defined intervals (e.g., every minute).
 2.2. Automator checks occupancy number against preset legal/safety limit.
 2.3. Alert triggers when occupancy ≥ X% of allowed; critical alert at full or over.
 2.4. Optionally, automates warnings for data source offline or sensor error.

Platform Variants

 3.1. Twilio SMS
  • Feature/Setting: Automated SMS alert rule set, configure messaging API for instant notifications to on-duty staff.
 3.2. SendGrid
  • Feature/Setting: Automated email template push using SendGrid API, set triggers on "capacity exceeded" event.
 3.3. Slack
  • Feature/Setting: Slack webhook to automate channel message "Occupancy Critical" with real-time data.
 3.4. Microsoft Teams
  • Feature/Setting: Incoming webhook automates posting to safety channel.
 3.5. PagerDuty
  • Feature/Setting: Automated incident creation, capacity breach triggers escalation policy via Events API v2.
 3.6. Discord
  • Feature/Setting: Webhook automates announcement in staff-mod channel for real-time capacity warning.
 3.7. AWS SNS
  • Feature/Setting: Automated topic trigger for mass SMS/email to staff; API push from occupancy event watcher.
 3.8. Google Sheets
  • Feature/Setting: API automatedly writes incident logs in real time for later compliance documentation.
 3.9. Microsoft Power Automate
  • Feature/Setting: Automated workflow to check IoT sensor data, trigger Teams, SMS, or email.
 3.10. Zapier
  • Feature/Setting: Multi-app automation of sensor-data, message, log, alert; drag-and-drop trigger configuration.
 3.11. IFTTT
  • Feature/Setting: Automate condition-based notifications via phone push, SMS or webhooks using occupancy input.
 3.12. HubSpot
  • Feature/Setting: Automated record of capacity incidents, tickets routing via workflow automation.
 3.13. Salesforce
  • Feature/Setting: Custom automator flow creates safety case on trigger.
 3.14. Webex
  • Feature/Setting: Automation sends alerts to admin space via API message POST.
 3.15. Opsgenie
  • Feature/Setting: Capacity breach triggers automated alert policy and on-call notification.
 3.16. Pushover
  • Feature/Setting: Send push-notifications automatedly to manager devices on event.
 3.17. Mailgun
  • Feature/Setting: Automated capacity alert emails using transactional API endpoint.
 3.18. ServiceNow
  • Feature/Setting: Incident automation on capacity event with auto-routing to compliance team.
 3.19. Notion
  • Feature/Setting: Automated incident log using API write to operations database.
 3.20. Airtable
  • Feature/Setting: API-based automation to append incident rows and status in compliance base.
 3.21. Google Calendar
  • Feature/Setting: Automated event creation for audit-trail on each capacity alert.

Benefits

 4.1. Automates safety compliance, minimizing risks and fines for overcapacity.
 4.2. Real-time automated notifications to responsible staff prevent manual oversight.
 4.3. Automated logs streamline regulatory audits and reporting.
 4.4. Automates escalation, reducing time-to-response and enhancing guest safety.
 4.5. Supports venue reputation via proactive, automated safety management.