Nilay Kulkarni: A life-saving invention that prevents human stampedes
निलय कुलकर्णी: चेंगराचेंगरी थांबवून जीव वाचवणारं नवीन संशोधन
Nilay Kulkarni is the co-founder and chief technical officer of Ashioto Analytics, a real-time crowd flow analysis platform. Full bio
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the horrors he witnessed six years earlier
आमच्या नाशिक शहरात सहा वर्षांपूर्वी
हा भयंकर प्रसंग
नाशिकच्या कुंभमेळ्यात घडली.
religious gatherings.
सर्वात मोठ्या धार्मिक मेळाव्यांपैकी एक.
over 30 million Hindu worshippers
आमच्या शहरात
only for 1.5 million people --
is to wash away all their sins
आपली सर्व पापं धुवून टाकणं
पुढे सरकत असते,
moves at a slow pace.
in three other places in India,
आणखी तीन ठिकाणी
in stampedes at these events.
मृत्यू घडून आले आहेत.
resigning to the city's fate
असे डझनावारी मृत्यू घडतात
inevitable deaths of dozens
शहराचं दुर्दैव मानून,
to find a solution to this?
and being a maker,
आणि अंगी उत्पादकवृत्ती असल्यामुळे
of building a system
गर्दीच्या लोंढ्यावर नियंत्रण ठेवणारी
the flow of people
and, hopefully, fewer deaths.
कमी लोक मृत्युमुखी पडतील.
and their intensity,
to have zero stampedes.
चेंगराचेंगरीशिवायचं पहिलंच वर्ष ठरलं.
passed without any casualties.
an innovation workshop
त्यावेळी एम आय टी मीडिया लॅब च्या
faced at the grand scale of Kumbh Mela.
निर्माण झालेली कुंभथॉन कार्यशाळा.
the stampede problem,
चेंगराचेंगरीचा प्रश्न सोडवण्यासाठी
of people per minute.
मिनिटागणिक दर.
that would help us get these three things.
वापरता येईल ते आम्ही शोधू लागलो.
to identify people?
त्यांचा माग ठेवता येईल का?
be too expensive and impractical
महागडं आणि अव्यवहारी ठरेल
with image-processing techniques?
सीसीटीव्ही कॅमेरे वापरता येतील का?
of being non-portable
in the case of rain,
पाऊस पडतो,
to happen in Kumbh Mela.
do not carry cell phones
granular enough for us.
आमच्या उपयोगी पडला नसता.
स्वस्त, मजबूत, जलरोधक
the data for processing.
which has pressure sensors
त्या मॅटमध्ये प्रेशर सेन्सर्स असल्याने
of people walking on it,
ती मोजते
आम्ही निर्माण केलेल्या
software we created.
like overcounting or double-stepping,
चुका टाळण्यासाठी
was determined to be 18 inches,
त्याआधी अनेक वेगळ्या आकारांच्या
stride length of a person.
निरीक्षण केलं होतं.
over the sensor.
ते ओलांडून गेले असते.
built in three days,
अॅल्युमिनियम फॉईल वापरून
with aluminum composite panels
पिझोइलेक्ट्रिक प्लेट्सपासून
pulse of electricity under pressure.
छोटासा विद्युतप्रवाह निर्माण होतो.
pilots in public,
in malls, in temples, etc.,
याची चाचणी घेऊन
work on problems for the city.
उत्साहाने मदत केली.
were in their early 20s.
माझ्याबरोबरची मुलं विशीत होती.
and would ask us questions like,
if I step on this?"
an electronic sensor on the ground,
a cover for the sensor
अशी लोकांना भीती वाटू नये म्हणून
what it is on the ground.
in hazardous areas
of using black rubber
accumulates over the surface,
with the ground.
ते जमिनीसारखंच दिसायचं.
is no higher than 12 millimeters.
खबरदारी आम्हांला घ्यावी लागली.
which was only 10 millimeters thick.
to the server in real time,
all the active devices on the ground.
सर्व सेन्सर्स विचारात घेतले जातात.
if the crowd movement slowed down
गर्दी एका ठराविक प्रमाणाबाहेर वाढली,
moved beyond a desired threshold.
in the Nashik Kumbh Mela 2015,
अशा पाच मॅट्स बसवल्या
in real time at various checkpoints,
तात्काळ उपलब्ध करून दिला
with other innovations,
या कुंभमेळ्यात
altogether at that festival.
सर्वांच्या वापरासाठी
free to use for anyone.
असेच इतर मोठे मेळावे
तर मला फार आनंद होईल.
who may also suffer from stampedes.
थांबवण्यासाठी प्रेरणा दिली आहे.
makes it adaptable
gathering of people.
adapt and deploy the system
आणखी सुधारणा करून, जास्त अनुकूलन आणून
and ensure a safe flow of people,
वाचवण्यासाठी ती जगात सर्वत्र वापरायची.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Nilay Kulkarni - Software programmerNilay Kulkarni is the co-founder and chief technical officer of Ashioto Analytics, a real-time crowd flow analysis platform.
Why you should listen
Nilay Kulkarni started developing software at the age of 14. In collaboration with the MIT Media Lab, he used his skills as a self-taught programmer to build a simple tech solution to prevent human stampedes during the Kumbh Mela, one of the world's largest crowd gatherings, in India. Now 17 years old, he is the co-founder and chief technical officer of Ashioto Analytics.
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