In view of the attack on Trump, additional security arrangements will be made for PM Modi – Air Force fighter planes have been entrusted with the responsibility of guarding from the sky
New Delhi, 09 August: This time the security arrangements of the Independence Day celebrations at the Red Fort will be dependent on Artificial Intelligence. For this, for the first time in India, AI-based surveillance and automated crowd system will be deployed. In view of the attack on former President Donald Trump during the election campaign in the US recently, additional security arrangements will be made for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The security command of the Independence Day celebrations at the Red Fort will be under the Ministry of Defense and the Army. Air Force fighter planes have been entrusted with the responsibility of guarding from the sky. In view of security preparations, a team of central intelligence agencies and all related security agencies held a review meeting after visiting the Red Fort recently. In the review meeting, emphasis was laid on making additional arrangements to maintain tight surveillance in the high-security ceremony to be held at the Red Fort in view of the attack on former President Donald Trump in the US.
A Defense Ministry official said that security agencies will deploy artificial intelligence-based security systems with advanced surveillance features and automatic crowd estimation features in and around the Red Fort on Independence Day. CCTVs with video analytics features will be deployed at important places at the venue. The intelligence video surveillance system will have features such as vehicle number plate recognition system, face recognition, counting of people’s movement, tripwire, audio detection, intrusion and left or lost items.
AI-equipped cameras will also be used to count the entry and exit of people inside the Red Fort complex during the ceremony. The crowd will be estimated through AI. The official said that the cameras will have the ability to detect items left in public places. Intrusion detection features will protect high risk. Alarms can be set in different areas according to the sensitivity of each area. This advanced feature will identify faces on live cameras as well as recorded videos.
Giving more details about the new changes, a senior official said that they have been using facial recognition system for the past several years but this year, Number Plate Recognition (NPR) system will be deployed which will detect vehicle plates based on videos. This system will record videos and take snapshots of every vehicle violating traffic rules. It will be integrated with multiple cameras or sensors to capture the image of the driver.
