Application of Cognitive Computing for Smart Crowd Management
Elizabeth B. Varghese, Sabu M. Thampi · IT Professional · 2020
A crowd can be defined as a large gathering of people at a particular place showing different types of attitudes and behaviors. Monitoring and tracking these wide varieties of people is tedious in a real environment. The crowded scenarios have a high tendency to change into an abnormal condition due to sudden external pressures such as gunshots/fire or internal stress such as overcrowding, where things get often uncontrollable and the consequences are disastrous. Moreover, the use of a large number of monitoring cameras and the limited capability of human operators to analyze the video contents result in an urge to developing smart crowd monitoring systems with humanlike capabilities. This article discusses the human cognition capability and its application for smart crowd management. Cognitive computing facilitates complex task automation, real-time decision-making, predictive analytics, and processing of voluminous structured and unstructured data.