However, in the core zone witnessing maximum crowding at Godowlia Crossing, the men in khaki were using aerial surveillance with military-standard tethered drones equipped with night vision capabilities, which can be positioned for up to 12 hours at a stretch.Additional Commissioner of Police, Kashi Zone, T. Sarvanan, said that the drones were being used to determine crowd flow patterns, monitor suspicious activities, and identify unattended items.Micro drones were also being used for aerial surveillance to identify crowded points, ghat areas, overloading of boats, and non-compliance with security directions given to boat operators, he said.“We are also utilizing geo-spatial technologies for parking and traffic diversion plans, gyroscopic self-balancing e-scooters for crowd management, and a Face Recognition System (FRS) to act on terrorism-related input and also detect missing persons in crowded areas,” he said, adding that live traffic monitoring was also being done through 2,576 state-of-the-art cameras at the integrated command and control center. State-of-the-art rescue boats and life-saving accessories were also being used for riverine rescue operations.
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