DataKumbh Nasik 2015

DATAKUMBH NASIK 2015 DURATION – 14th JULY TO 25th SEPTEMBER (75 DAYS) AA » SIGNIFICANCE The celebration of Kumbh Mela depends on the position of Jupiter (Brhaspati) and the Sun. It is said that when Jupiter and the Sun fall on the zodiac sign Leo, then Kumbh Mela is celebrated at Trimbakeshwar in Nasik. Maha Kumbh Mela is celebrated every 12 years. Last time it was celebrated in 2003. VISITORS COST $ $ 40 9 Million 345 Million USD expected visitors. allocated by the government. 1300 PIN-172114 9,000 temporary toilets built. » HYGIENE K Extensive measures for waste management have been taken and a proper plan to clean up the Godavari River has also been put up. including those from 40 NGOS, will be deployed for the cleanliness drive as well as other services including crowd management. Some 20,000 реople, 550 CCTV Cameras have been put up at » SECURITY FORCES different locations. 20,000 Security Personnels NO SELFIE ZONE will guard the area in and around the Kumbh Mela on all days. NO CAR ZONE » TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION A project called 'Wiki takes Nasik' has decided to upload 5000 pictures of Nasik which will provide glimpse of the city ahead of the Kumbh. It has been viewed II, 02,481,287 times in the last 60 days since the information was uploaded. A crowd management app to avoid stampedes. It provides real time traffic which helps the local police redirect pedestrians away from saturated NO HONKING ZONE areas. An app that provides information on bus, train and also information on accommodation, availability of hospital beds, ambulances and blood stock. A person tracking app to avoid children and others getting lost in the festival crowd. It uses barcodes for identification. An epidemic tracker which is a combination of a mobile app and cloud based backend analytical engine that monitors the health of festival attendees in real time. A food distribution network that provides quality and hygienic food. It provides information like when and where the food was cooked. » EFFORTS BY ACADEMIA Ramesh Raskar, the head of MIT's camera culture group spearheads the Kumbhathon' venture. Kumbhathon is conceived as a sandbox initiative to create a prototype ecosystem that can be applied at other major public gatherings as well. Several American institutions including, New York Univer sity, Rice University, University of Nebraska Medical Center and Harvard are pitching in and trying to redefine relationships between people and technologies, spanning sectors such as health, education, food and agriculture, housing, transportation, finance, smart city technologies and local businesses using Nasik as a 'sand-box.' Visit us at: AUREUS www.aureusanalytics.com www.twitter.com/aureusanalytics www.linkedin.com/company/aureus-analytics www.facebook.com/aureusanalytics ANALYTICS