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The Tamil Nadu constabulary person deployed Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to negociate assemblage and vehicular question astatine Tiruvannamalai wherever respective lakhs of radical are expected to enactment successful the Kathigai Deepam festival connected Wednesday (December 3, 2025). Police said this is the archetypal clip the installation is being utilized for assemblage absorption successful the State.
The State constabulary person roped successful IT experts who implemented AI-driven applications for assemblage absorption astatine the Kumbh Mela successful Prayagraj aboriginal this year. The exertion has been integrated with hundreds of CCTV cameras installed on each the roads starring to the Arunachaleswarar Temple, mada streets, girivalam way and different vantage points successful Tiruvannamalai.
While information unit relied mostly connected unrecorded CCTV provender for assemblage power and absorption successful 2024, this twelvemonth the power country would get timely alerts connected imaginable overcrowding oregon stampede situations prompting them to nonstop crushed forces to intervene. The strategy would trigger assemblage density alerts based connected planetary standards which categorises the gathering of 4-5 radical per quadrate metre arsenic a constituent from wherever congestion would physique and information risks summation significantly.
Accurate data
“With the AI-driven technology, we volition person the nonstop fig of radical oregon vehicles successful a determination astatine immoderate fixed constituent of time. The accuracy volition beryllium astir 95%. This information is important to measure the fig of radical astatine antithetic locations and modulate the assemblage accordingly. 4 radical successful 1 quadrate metre is simply a reddish emblem for america and a imaginable stampede situation. Special teams person been stationed astatine antithetic locations for responding to assemblage density alerts,” says Assistant Superintendent of Police Dhanush Kumar.
Several teams of constabulary unit deployed to exclusively negociate vehicular postulation would besides get alerts from the AI instrumentality arsenic regards the nonstop fig of vehicles entering the municipality and parking lots. Cameras were installed successful 35 of the full 100 parking areas and 11 important autobus stands successful the town.
Live aerial feed
Besides dozens of constabulary adjunct booths established astatine prominently disposable locations, hotline telephone booths that would link to the power country were set-up astatine 10 places for the radical to question constabulary assistance successful the lawsuit of immoderate exigency. Like successful the erstwhile years, the constabulary would alert drones to person unrecorded aerial provender of the festival and support a ticker connected the venue’s vicinity.
The Inspector-General of Police (North Zone) Asra Garg, Deputy Inspector-General of Police (Vellore Range) G. Dharmarajan, Superintendent of Police (Tiruvannamalai) M. Sudhakar and different officers reviewed the information arrangements and the contingency plans for the event.
The ‘Deepam 2025’ app developed for the festival would person details of each facilities made disposable to the devotees specified arsenic aesculapian camps, determination of ambulances, anna danam locations, interaction numbers of officials to beryllium contacted successful lawsuit of immoderate exigency etc. The existent clip information captured by the systems could besides beryllium accessible by the people, Mr. Kumar said.
