SmartCrowd AI: Intelligent Crowd Management System for Sporting Venues

krithikgokuls — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:36:20 +0000

This is a submission for the DEV April Fools Challenge

What I Built

I built SmartCrowd AI, a cloud-based system that tracks crowd density, predicts congestion, and suggests better routes in large venues, making events smoother and safer.

Demo

https://smartcrowd-145365073250.asia-south1.run.app/predict?zone=Food Court
https://smartcrowd-145365073250.asia-south1.run.app/crowd
https://smartcrowd-145365073250.asia-south1.run.app/predict?zone=Gate A

Code

https://github.com/krithikgokuls/SmartCrowd-AI-System-using-Cloud-Run

How I Built It

I built SmartCrowd AI using Python with Flask for the backend API, containerized the application using Docker, and deployed it on Google Cloud Run for scalability. The system provides real-time crowd data and predictions through REST APIs, which can be accessed by a web or mobile interface.

Prize Category

Best Google AI Usage

This project uses Google Cloud services like Cloud Run to build a scalable, real-time system and demonstrates how AI-based predictions can improve crowd management and user experience in large venues.

Experience On Hacktoberfest

krithikgokuls — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 14:37:44 +0000

Introduction to Hacktoberfest:
Hactoberfest is one of the most popular, well - attended annual global Contributions of Open Source.Every October , people from a variety of expertise backgrounds , and experience levels from all over the world come together and use their skills to help maintain open source projects.
Open Source Contributor:
Contributing to open source software is not only a way to share your skills in a particular language or tech stack , it can be rewarding practice to share your engineering knowledge and collaborate with the developer community.
Host of Hactoberfest and Years of Experience:
Hactoberfest is Digital Ocean's annual event that encourages people to contribute to open sourcer throughout october.This month marks the 11th year of hactoberfest , a month long virtual event that encourages developers to contribute to the open source projects that so many of us rely on.

My Experience on Hactoberfest 2024:-

I recently made my first open-source contributions through Hacktoberfest, submitting accepted PRs/MRs with the "hacktoberfest" or "hacktoberfest-accepted" label across five repositories. My contributions involved coding in languages like Python and Java. This experience helped me understand the process of contributing to projects, from creating repositories to working with project maintainers and awaiting the seven-day review period on GitHub and GitLab. Overall, it was an engaging introduction to open source, thanks to Hacktoberfest and DigitalOcean’s support.

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KRITHIK GOKUL S
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