The Paléo Festival integrates this year for the first time for the first time artificial intelligence at its control center. This should make it possible to analyze the collective behavior of festivals and festival-goers. Experience could be perpetuated in case of success.
It is a confidential place of the Paléo Festival, prohibited from the public and usually also to journalists: the power station, located away from the tumult, in the permanent buildings of the festival, ensures the smooth running of the event. The atmosphere is studious, rocked by the sound of keyboards, mice and talkie-talkies.
In computers and phones, the walls wear screens relaying images from the cameras scattered in the festival as well as weather statements, statistics and plans.
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Volunteers, but professional
The central receives the incidents, reports and repair requests that come from the field, details at the morning of the RTS Pascal Viot, coordinator of the reception and security department of the Paléo.
All the people who work in this “control tower” are volunteers, but computer engineers, weather forecasts or geomaticians and geomaticians by profession.
An application and cameras
This year, for the first time, they can count on the support of artificial intelligence tools (AI) developed by the Technis start-up of the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (EPFL).
Among these tools, a generative AI application – of a chatgpt type, but internal -, fueled by more than fifteen years of documents and procedures archived by Paleo, to optimize the operational response in the event of a problem.
“Intelligent” cameras are also being experienced, “for the recognition of incongruous elements, like a vehicle in the middle of a crowd, which will generate a signal to attract the attention of the operators of the power station,” specifies Pascal Viot. According to the manager, “it is not a question of monitoring the crowd, but of watching over it”.
The collective analyzed
The data collected by AI will be used for an analysis of the “collective behavior of festival -goers, to allow us to better understand what is of the order of attendance, counting, but also of the optimization of access and the fluidity of the entry”, explains Pascal Viot.
For six days, the Paléo welcomes 50,000 festivals and festival -goers daily. If the artificial intelligence tested on this 48th edition is effective, the event will integrate it permanently in the coming years.
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