Kumbh Sahayak: AI Crowd Safety Platform

Kumbh Sahayak is a city-scale crowd intelligence and community safety platform for the Kumbh Mela, founded by Shivraj Pawar, a full-stack and systems expert, currently at the student/early-stage MVP level. It offers value through crowd intel, phased alerts, and community coordination for enhanced safety, with contact details provided.

Startup, Solution & AI Alignment

• Kumbh Sahayak: City-Scale Crowd Intelligence & Community Safety Platform
• Team: Kumbh Sahayak, Founder Shivraj Pawar (Full-Stack & Systems)
• Stage: Student / Early-Stage MVP
• Contact: [Email & Phone]
• Value Prop: Crowd intel, phased alerts, community coord for safer Kumbh Mela

Source: Kumbh Sahayak Pitch Deck

The slide highlights the overcrowding problem at Nashik–Trimbakeshwar Kumbh Mela, particularly on Shahi Snan days, which causes lost persons, panic, and safety risks for vulnerable groups like the elderly, women, and children. It contrasts this with AI's positive impact, promoting inclusion, social empowerment, human safety, well-being, and efficient crowd management resilience.

Kumbh Visitor Problem & Societal Impact

The slide presents an AI-driven mobile-first map app that displays crowd levels, predicts congestion with phased alerts, and facilitates family reunions through volunteer coordination for pilgrims. It leverages predictive analytics, location-based intelligence, real-time data aggregation, recommendation logic, and ensures responsible AI via temporary anonymized grouping without tracking.

AI-Driven Solution & Innovation

• Mobile-first map app shows crowd levels, predicts congestion, phased alerts.
• Facilitates family reunions via volunteer coordination for pilgrims.
• Leverages Predictive Analytics, Location-Based Intelligence, Recommendation Logic.
• Employs Real-Time Data Aggregation for city-scale intelligence.
• Ensures Responsible AI: temporary anonymized grouping, no tracking.

Source: Kumbh Sahayak Pitch Deck

The slide outlines a freemium commercial model featuring premium features, vendor insights, and SMS packs, enabling a self-sustaining business without government dependency. It emphasizes scalability to global mass events, particularly in Global South contexts.

Commercial Model & Scalability

• Freemium model: premium features, vendor insights, SMS packs
• Self-sustaining business, no government dependency
• Scalable to other mass events globally
• Highly relevant for Global South contexts

Source: Kumbh Sahayak Presentation

The slide outlines project readiness with a functional MVP featuring a web demo and simulated data, alongside smartphone-based deployment that's language-friendly and enables quick Kumbh onboarding. It highlights impacts like safer movement, reduced panics, faster reunions, and improved comfort, with a vision to evolve into a long-term AI public safety platform.

Readiness, Deployment & Impact

• Readiness: Functional MVP with web demo and simulated data.
• Deployment: Smartphone-based, language-friendly, quick Kumbh onboarding.
• Impact: Safer movement, fewer panics, faster reunions, better comfort.
• Vision: Evolve to long-term AI public safety platform.

Source: Kumbh Sahayak Presentation