Local Data Company - SmartStreetSensor Footfall Data - Research Aggregated data is an aggregated version of the secure version of this dataset. The aggregated level footfall sensor data is a derived product producing five-minute footfall counts.

Also available is a less granular version of this dataset's research aggregated data safeguarded and secure version. The aggregate level footfall measures are a derived product producing weekly footfall counts for select retail centres across the UK.

This SmartStreetSensor footfall dataset produced by Local Data Company (LDC) in partnership with the CDRC contains weekly footfall counts of passive WiFi signal probing from a sensor network across Great Britain for a period of 1 calendar year between 2015 and 2020. The data are used as a proxy for estimating footfall at retail locations.

The dataset includes details about the location of the sensors (description as well as latitude, longitude, height, depth, installation dates) and cleaned five-minute interval footfall estimates which include timestamps, locations, adjusted and unadjusted footfall counts. A complete description of this dataset can be found below in the Data and Resources section.

The weekly version includes details about the location of the sensors by street name for requested retail centres, counts of sensors in the requested retail centres and weekly footfall counts. This can be supplied on request following a successful application, or can be derived from the five-minute interval file which is supplied by default.