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Having said that from the entire existence of the Dark Web, Deep Web and the Surface web it is understood that the
world needs to be more aware of the perils on which we are existing on and data on a Digital world is insecure.

The author is an “enthusiastic technology executive and experienced Manager with 23 years of both international and
domestic experience in the Industry with hands on experience in heading the complete IT Infrastructure and Network
of an organization. Also being equally versatile in managing and delivering projects of ICT and projects on emerging
technologies.”

DRONE MONITORING AND CROWD MANAGEMENT

AT GANGASAGAR MELA

Gangasagar Mela is an annual gathering which takes place on the eastern coast on Sagar islands in West Bengal in
the mid of January 2021. Each year millions of devotees come there to pray and be part of the annual celebration.

Ensuring safety and security of the devotees is a crucial part of the state administration. Considering the advantages
of having aerial surveillance, the administration have started deploying drones at Gangasagar Mela from 2018.

The department was very quickly able to see the
advantages that the technology (like Drones) could
bring in. Drones are flown at safe altitudes from open
locations to continuously monitor the crowd movement
and use the intelligence to control starting and
stopping of movement gates. This ensures that safe
number of people are only allowed and congestion of
people is avoided.

The drones are having HD cameras recording the live
footage and streaming the same to the control room in
real time where disaster management experts, decision
makers, organisers, etc. can analyse the footage and
take crucial decisions. The live stream is established on
a completely independent system with 3 layers of
backup option to ensure uninterrupted feed even during power failure, communication loss or blackout.

In 2021, Webel has been given the responsibility to provide deployment of Drones services during the Ganga Sagar
Mela (January 7, 2021 to January 18, 2021).

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