A REVIEW: MONITORING AND SAFETY OF PILGRIMS USING STAMPEDE DETECTION AND PILGRIM TRACKING

S. K. Shah, Sharley Kulkarni

Abstract: At present, there are so many problems regarding the crowd control, medical emergencies, security issues, identification and tracking of the pilgrims in the holy areas. Especially during pilgrimage, the pilgrimage authority finds it difficult to manage the situation. Thus, in order to identify, track and monitor pilgrims a system is needed. In this system camera is used to monitor continuously and to find high density with the help of image processing. The communication with base station is done through GSM. As soon as pre-stamped starts, people around pre-stamped, camera detect the picture and compare the density and message is send to the police if very high density is found. This embedded system is divided into two parts stamped detection and pilgrim monitoring unit. In Stamped detection unit continuous monitoring of the stamped scenario using Image processing via MATLAB software is implemented. The MATLAB software continuously takes snapshot at every 10 seconds and will analyse the scenario for stamped threshold. If the people gathered in a particular area are more than the threshold then stamped warning is sent to ARM microcontroller via RS232 and simultaneously we send an indication to the Pilgrim unit via GSM. In Pilgrim monitoring unit continuous monitoring of the status of pilgrim using the health parameters of pilgrim and sending the GPS Co-ordinates along with the health parameters is initiated

Keywords: Matlab; ARM; GSM; GPS

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0404058