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.
DGP M.Mahendar Reddy,IPS., 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 official 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 Medaram, the majority devotees i.e., 90% will be from tribal folks, village living.
In the present context, the experts have applied the past, local crowd management related experiences to the current technology used at the PrayograjKumbhamela.14 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 Wagu/Jampanna Canal, 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.
From where, with the help of Artificial Intelligence technology, based on the inflow of the devotees, the crowd density will be estimated and the instructions will be given then and there to the point officers deployed at the Jatara. Particularly, this Artificial Intelligence alarms the officers, as and then the devotees in a square metre area exceeds above 3.6 devotees. With the help of this technology, the state police has succeeded in maintaining the order in peaceful environment, preventing the stampede like undesirable incidents.
Not just with crowd and queues monitored, the Traffic leading to Medaram Jatara was also effectively regulated with no single instance of congestion. 1) By allotting route-specific parking lots, where not a single vehicle was allowed to park on the roads, 2) Separating the entry and exit points avoiding the collision, 3) Shop keepers and vendors have given with definite place for set up, and by working in collaboration with the other wings of administration towards making the event a great success.
On the whole, the state police has successfully executed the technology of artificial intelligence in effective crowd management at the Telangana Kumbh the Medaram Jatara, with no incidents reported and the officials has stated that this type of technologies will be kept in use at upcoming festivals of huge crowd prone like of Ganesh immersion, Bonalu, etc.,
