How it works
Film a basin. Get the count. Send a count your buyer can check.
Fincount turns a ten second phone video of a basin into a count with a range, the size spread, an estimated weight and a signed count your buyer can scan.
01Step 1
Film a basin for 10 seconds
Pour the fingerlings into a light basin with a little water, put the printed scale card on the floor and hold the phone above it. The Capture Guide checks the picture live and unlocks the record button only when it is good.
- Basin in view, scale card found
- Phone level, picture sharp, no glare
- Works offline, on a phone you can buy in Abuja
02Step 2
Get the count in seconds
The phone gives a first count straight away. When the video uploads, a stronger check recounts every basin and gives the final count, the size spread and an estimated weight, each as a range.
- A dot on every fish it counted
- A range, never a single hopeful number
- Too crowded? It tells you to split the basin
03Step 3
Send a count your buyer can check
Basins add up into one sale. Fincount signs the sale and gives your buyer a link and a QR code. The buyer scans it, sees the count as you issued it, and can recount on arrival with the same app.
- Any change to the count shows
- Buyer recount, fish that died on the way included
- A difference is only a dispute when it is outside both ranges
What you need
Four things on the day.
A light coloured basin
About 3 cm of water. Light basins make the fish easy to see.
The printed scale card
A black and white card laid flat on the floor of the basin. It lets Fincount measure fish.
An Android phone
Any common mid range phone. Hold it about 50 cm above the water, level, in the shade.
Ten seconds
No 4K, no editing. Fincount picks the best frames from the video.
Phone first, cloud second
Two counts, so one mistake cannot slip through.
The phone counts first, even with no signal. When the video uploads, a stronger model on AWS counts the same basin again.
- 01
Preliminary count
A small version of Fincount AI runs on the phone and gives a count and a range in seconds, with no signal. - 02
Final count
The uploaded video is kept in Amazon S3 and checked against its fingerprint, and a stronger model on AWS recounts it and measures the fish. - 03
When they disagree
If the phone count and the final count differ by more than their ranges, a Fincount reviewer looks at the basin before it can go on a certificate.
Honest limits
Too crowded? Fincount says so.
Every size of fish has a limit on how many can be counted well in one basin. Past it, even a person with sharp eyes would miss fish hidden under others. Fincount shows a crowding check and tells the worker to split the basin. A crowded basin cannot go on a certificate until it is recounted or reviewed.
Count your next basin with Fincount.
Film a basin, get the count, and send your buyer a count they can check. The first hatcheries get 30 days free.