TS police use AI for crowd management in Medaram Jatara

TS police use AI for crowd management in Medaram Jatara
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Artificial Intelligence technology used by the Telangana State Police for the first time in India, was successfully executed, in prevention of any untoward, undesirable incidents at the Medaram Jatara, where approximately one and half crore devotees, visited the event place.

Hyderabad: Artificial Intelligence technology used by the Telangana State Police for the first time in India, was successfully executed, in prevention of any untoward, undesirable incidents at the Medaram Jatara, where approximately one and half crore devotees, visited the event place.

As every devotee who visits the Gadde the holy place of Goddess' Sammakka and Saralamma, duly submits their offerings namely Mokkulu, this point of maintenance been the biggest challenge for the forces deployed at the event place.

As the Chief Minister has passed the order to conduct this event of pride without any minor incident to report, Director General of Police M Mahendar Reddy has decided to use the advance technology during the Jatara, at the optimal level.

With this, the police chief has instructed the officials of IT wing and the other senior officers to look into the technology used during the Prayog Raj Kumbha Mela, which was stated to be the world highest number devotee visited, and the steps taken by the local administrative units while allowing the pilgrimages during the holy bath in the river Ganga.

Following this, the IT officials have been involved in the study of Artificial Intelligence technology, for the last six months.

And the same fundamental/basic technology has been applied for the Medaram Jatara also. In Prayograj Kumbha mela, urban and the upper middle class groups of population hold the major proportion of the devotees whereas in Medaram, the majority devotees i.e., 90% will be from tribal folks, village living.

In the present context, the experts has applied the past, local crowd management related experiences to the current technology used at the PrayograjKumbhamela. Fourteen High definition cameras of Artificial Intelligence have been installed, to estimate the crowd by monitoring the inflow of devotees covering, the route which leads to Gaddelu from Jampanna Vagu. RTC bus stand, Orattam.

All these cameras are connected to the command and control centre set up made exclusively at the police camp, Medaram Jatara , preventing the stampede- like incidents.

Not just with crowd and queues monitored, the traffic leading to Medaram Jatara was also effectively regulated with no single instance of congestion.

The Director General of Police has visited the event place twice to review the measures on an unprecedented scale. On the whole, the state police has successfully executed the technology of artificial intelligence in effective crowd management at the Telangana Kumbh Mela, the Medaram Jatara, with no incidents reported and the officials have stated that this type of technology will be kept in use at upcoming festivals of huge crowd prone like of Ganesh immersion, Bonalu, etc.

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