Maha Kumbh Mela 2025: AI Cameras, Mobile App, Drone Shows Transform Experience and many more

Maha Kumbh Mela 2025: NDRF operates a ‘water ambulance' during Maha Kumbh Mela 2025 at Sangam for the safety of the event-goers. The ambulance will be operational throughout the event and staffed by doctors and senior NDRF personnel. The Deputy Inspector General of the NDRF, Manoj Sharma, said that the ambulance would operate as a mobile hospital delivering emergency medical care on the spot.

Contents such as emergency drugs, supplies, ox and monitoring, and all emergency-related drugs are carried on the ambulance. The ambulance is able to act quickly to sail the river Ganga, being able to offer immediate help. After the festival, it will be carried to the NDRF Centre at Varanasi.

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Uttar Pradesh has a new advanced technology introduced under the ‘Digi Kumbh' initiative for the Mahakumbh Mela 2025, thereby making it the largest event to have such technology to ensure its safety and smooth running. By introducing artificial intelligence (AI) and with an extensive surveillance-network, the event is now moved into the new era of digital surveillance and security.

This year, the arrangements for security and monitoring has reached another level due to the establishment of the Integrated Command and Control Centre, which acts as the central hub monitoring the entire area that conducts such a melés. Today officials are able to supervise all components of 52-seater viewing centers at four different points through any integrated real-time surveillance.

This is the biggest face detection exercise ever performed in the country, as more than 2,750 CCTV cameras, integrated with AI-powered video analytics, will monitor the targeted movement of 40 crore devotees.

Moreover, cameras that are designed for vehicle number plate recognition and crowd movement monitoring will ensure more streamlined crowd management.

For such scale, officials are quite hopeful that these AI models will be able to deal with complications stemming from the crowded conditions overlapping features and the environmental factors like lighting and weather among others, which could have impact on the quality of images that can be acquired.

This is for the first time that a dedicated team of cyber police is operationally situated at the ground specifically to actively watch the physical and digital threats today. The investigation of cybercrimes, for instance fraud in their tent city, will be the responsibility of the 14-member team, which takes priority meetings on tracing the lost mobiles. This is of importance because as many as 25 handsets were lost by crime in the run-up to the Mela.

Awareness campaigns were developed to educate people from cybercrimes, yet with an increase in such cases. A senior officer said that notwithstanding their measures, the result was before arrest because they have reported more than eight fraud cases and even senior officials being victims of the scams.

The police would use underwater drones with modern imaging technology to patrol the riverbed at the Triveni Sangam for the first time. These drone systems will be combined with remote-controlled life buoys for continuous aquatic surveillance, and the data would be streamed to the command centre in real time for a safer environment.

The government has introduced an AI chatbot, which also provides support simultaneously for multiple languages (11 languages) and is Google Maps-integrated for the public in the physical Mela area.

The AI system will thus go beyond surveillance; it is also a logistical function, monitoring resources distribution. Disaster monitoring is also a project for the drones to assist in crisis management.

Mela ground is meticulously mapped using the GIS-based Geographic Information System, integrated with Google Maps for the better and organized layout of the event. It allows the authorities to draw lines on the ground that divides the space into 10 zones entailing 25 sectors for greater resource allocation and crowd handling. Using drone data and surveys from the past Kumbhs, planners can optimize their planning process.

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A total of 39789 police personnel have been brought in, including 1378 women. Cyber-specialized and intelligence squad is also employed to end digital threats. In case of fires, extended articulated water towers with thermal imaging provide added safety.

Further, 530 works during the Mela are being monitored through the soft spoke real-time software package. The automated ration supply system has been set up by the UP government. There is a very detailed inventory tracking system and comprehensive Google Maps integration to facilitate the orientation of the guests through such vast festival space.

To counter the high-tech infrastructure, complaints have come in regarding land allocation. Fifteen thousand applicants from three states have claimed that they still have not received their space for stalls and accommodation. Some dissent, broke out as the fair was inaugurated.

The amalgamation of technology and traditional security measures is meant to ensure a safe, smooth and technologically advanced experience for the devotees attending Maha Kumbh Mela 2025.

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