Busan City Promotes Development and Demonstration Project of AI-Based Crowd Management System

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Real-Time Prediction and Warning of Crowd Accident Risks

140 Million KRW National Funding Invested in 'Advanced Technology Crowd Management System'

Busan City will develop an ‘Advanced Technology-Based Crowd Management System’ by next year, in which artificial intelligence (AI) predicts and alerts in real-time the risk of crowd accidents. A pilot project will be conducted targeting areas such as Gunam-ro in Haeundae-gu and Seomyeon in Busanjin-gu.

Busan City Hall.

In March, the city applied for the ‘Crowd Accident Risk Analysis and Evaluation Technology Development Project’ under the Ministry of the Interior and Safety’s ‘Social Complex Disaster Response Technology Development Contest’ together with an executing consortium composed of six organizations and companies including Busan Technopark. They won the project after fierce competition with a ratio of 17 to 1 and were selected as the executing agency.

The pilot service areas for the field application of this technology include four regions: Haeundae-gu, Busanjin-gu, and Yongsan-gu in Seoul.

The ‘Advanced Technology-Based Crowd Management System’ is a technology where AI utilizes local government control center closed-circuit television (CCTV) and drones to extract crowd turbulence phenomena in overcrowded environments, and based on this, analyzes, evaluates, predicts, and alerts the risk level of crowd accidents in real-time.

The introduction of AI technology is expected to overcome the limitations of human monitoring, and especially, with the expanded monitoring scope, events without organizers or hosts will be monitored more precisely. The project budget is fully funded by the national government, with a total of 1.4 billion KRW supported over two years.

The city and the consortium will develop ‘AI video analysis software’ compatible with the local government control center’s Video Management System (VMS) to build this system, and will conduct a pilot project applying it to areas with high crowd density such as Gunam-ro in Haeundae-gu and Seomyeon in Busanjin-gu.

The project will proceed over two years. This year, it will focus on ▲analysis technology to recognize crowd turbulence situations ▲simulation/inference technology for predicting crowd turbulence and supporting decision-making ▲technology to link local government and related agency situation dissemination systems ▲development of experimental prototypes for crowd accident risk analysis and evaluation systems. Next year, plans include ▲technology advancement ▲field application pilot projects.

Mayor Park Hyung-jun stated, “Busan is one of the world’s safest cities, successfully hosting numerous events with large crowds safely thanks to the dynamic yet orderly cooperation of its citizens.” He added, “With the development and pilot project of this advanced technology-based crowd management system, we expect to scientifically analyze potential risks and prevent and respond to safety accidents, thereby perfecting Busan’s safety management capabilities.”

In particular, Mayor Park said, “Recently, Busan ranked 19th in the world ‘Smart City’ evaluation, which gives us considerable pride. Taking this project as an opportunity, especially in the safety field, these smart technologies will be introduced to protect citizens’ safety in a more ‘smart’ way.”

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