EVENTS

Big events mean big crowds. A huge crowd indicates a successful event but also poses challenges for the event organisers. Staying in control of your crowd is essential to ensuring the best experience for participants and avoiding the potential dangers of overcrowding.

Large scale religious gatherings, music festivals, sports events and political rallies all have one thing in common - the challenges and risks of dealing with a large number of people in a limited space. Often loaded with excitement or emotion, these crowds may not be the easiest to understand or manage. Their behavior may not follow plans or modeled predictions and event managers will be faced with difficult decisions based on how things actually unfold on the ground. Insights from stewards and police can be useful but fall short of painting a site-wide picture of where people are, how they are clustered, how they are moving and where situations are becoming dangerous. What the operational decision-maker really needs is a live assessment of the extended crowd to ensure timely interventions are made to deliver a safe, enjoyable and profitable event.

Crowd Vision has been deployed for several years at the annual Muslim Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, one of the world's largest organised gatherings. It helps the authorities there to count pilgrims, monitor flows, spot danger and intervene to improve flows and reduce risk. Crowd Vision's advanced video analytics technology offers a proven solution for managing large crowds, with accurate people counts, instantaneous crowd analysis, and early-warnings of overcrowding. Unlike other systems it performs exceptionally the more crowded it becomes. Contact us to find out more about how Crowd Vision can help you ensure the safety and success of your events.