This IIT Madras engineer used AI to help European theme park save Rs 70 crore a year

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The brief sounded simple: people were entering a European theme park without tickets. The solution, however, had little to do with catching intruders. An IIT Madras engineer found a bigger problem hidden in 12,000 hours of daily CCTV footage. Fixing it helped the park cut monitoring costs by 96%.

Imagine running a theme park that welcomes 50,000 visitors every day. You have 500 cameras watching the premises round the clock, yet people are still finding ways to enter without paying.Your first instinct might be to install better cameras, hire more security guards or deploy artificial intelligence (AI) to catch trespassers.But what if the biggest problem is not the people sneaking in, but the sheer amount of footage nobody can realistically monitor?That was the question Shivank Agarwal, an IIT Madras engineer and Head of AI and FDE Leader at Scaler, an AI-native technology education company, began investigating when he was approached by a European theme park eight years ago.The project…

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