Parades Aiding System (PAR.AID.S): Intelligent Management of Carnival Parades

Social events like carnival parades are major activities for modern urban life. However, public authorities should tackle a series of challenges in order to successfully manage such spectacles that take place in specific time periods and urban areas inside a city. Such challenges mainly concern crowd management and resource planning operations. Local public authorities should be able to take fast and efficient decisions prior, during and after the carnival parade. Decisions taken prior to the event are non-dynamic by nature, while during the event officials should make decisions in real-time based on instant data collected on the spot. Smartphone technology provides the appropriate critical infrastructure that facilitates the efficient collection and distribution of collected data. In this work, we present a specific architecture that aspires to help public authorities in managing carnival parades efficiently. Proposed architecture supports the establishment of an intelligent environment providing specific services which promote crowd management in terms of safety, cost effectiveness concerning better personnel management and spectator perceived usefulness and entertainment.