Pravāha
प्रवाहthe flow · the current — Crowd Density, Flow & Safety Intelligence
What if a control room could see a deadly crush forming ten minutes before it happened — on the cameras it already has?
At a mela or a station, the signs of a crush are on CCTV minutes early, but no one can watch fifty feeds at once.
The situation
A festival control room
Tens of thousands move through a few narrow lanes. Pravāha watches every CCTV feed at once on the control room's own servers, turning the crowd into a live density map — and when pressure spikes at one gate, it raises the alarm while there is still time to open another route.
How it plays out
Step by step
- 01
The cameras already exist
Pravāha runs on the venue's own CCTV — nothing new to install, nothing sent to a cloud.
- 02
It reads the crowd
It estimates how dense each area is and which way the flow is moving, across every feed at once.
- 03
It sees pressure build
A surge, a bottleneck or a reversal at a gate is flagged before it becomes a crush.
- 04
Police act in time
The control room opens a route or holds the flow — moving people, not recovering them.
The system itself
Under the bonnet
Turns the cameras a city already has into a live read of how many people are where, which way they are moving, and where pressure is building — flagging the choke points and sudden surges that precede a crush, so police can move people, not bodies.
What it means for you
The bottom line
- ▸Turns existing CCTV into a live crowd-safety map
- ▸Early-warns on crush risk
- ▸Runs on-premise — footage stays in the control room
- ▸No new cameras, no cloud bill