MUMBAI, India, May 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641061213 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on May 14, for 'a cloud-edge microservice-based crowd safety management system for monitoring and controlling crowd movement across a plurality of campus zones.'
Inventor(s) include A Anny Leema; P Balakrishnan; Yuvraj Singh; and Amrita Roy.
The application for the patent was published on May 29, under issue no. 22/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a cloud-edge microservice-based system and method for crowd safety management across multiple campus zones is disclosed, wherein a visual data capture layer including fixed and aerial cameras acquires video streams that are periodically converted into still image frames to optimize computational efficiency. The frames are ingested, validated, and timestamped by an image ingestion microservice and processed by a lightweight machine-learning inference microservice to generate crowd density maps and aggregate crowd counts. A zone risk analyzer evaluates these outputs against predefined safety thresholds to determine zone-specific risk levels and detect high-density sub-areas. Based on the assessed risk, an autonomous flow control agent dynamically generates crowd control actions such as access throttling, route redirection, gate control, alerting, signage updates, and staff dispatch, which are executed via an actuation and notification interface. The system further includes an evidence logger for recording operational data and a monitoring dashboard for real-time visualization. The architecture supports distributed deployment across cloud, edge, and drone-based nodes, enabling decentralized zone-level decision-making with reduced latency. The method operates in a continuous closed-loop workflow of data acquisition, inference, risk assessment, action generation, execution, and logging to ensure real-time adaptive crowd management and enhanced campus safety."
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