Science & Tech · Big Tech & Internet · 14 hrs ago
Ochanomizu University students test sensors to show festival crowds
At Ochanomizu University in Tokyo, students tested a system to show festival crowd levels at the school’s 77th Kiinsai festival on November 7.
The trial was organized by the university’s Faculty of Co-Creation Engineering and the Next Generation Sensor Council.
Sensors under mats at three locations counted people entering buildings by detecting pressure as they walked over them.
Visitors could check crowd levels in real time on smartphones or computers.
The students planned the project over six months to address crowding at the university festival and help visitors move around campus more smoothly.
The trial shows how students applied what they learned in class to a practical problem.
The sources do not say whether the system will be used again or expanded.
Ochanomizu University students tested sensors at the university festival to measure crowd levels.
The trial took place on November 7 at the 77th Kiinsai festival in Bunkyo, Tokyo.
Sheet sensors under mats at three locations detected pressure as people walked over them and counted people inside buildings.
Visitors could check crowd conditions in real time on smartphones or computers to help them move around campus.
Students in the university’s Faculty of Co-Creation Engineering spent six months planning the project to ease festival congestion.
- Who
- Students from Ochanomizu University’s Faculty of Co-Creation Engineering organized the trial, with the Next-Generation Sensor Council and others.
- What
- They tested sensors under mats to measure crowd levels and count people inside buildings.
- When
- November 7.
- Where
- Ochanomizu University’s 77th Kiinsai festival in Bunkyo, Tokyo.
- Why
- To help visitors move around campus and address congestion at the festival.
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Faculty students planned the project to address congestion at the university festival.
Students tested the crowd-measuring sensors at the Kiinsai festival.
- University
- Ochanomizu University
- Festival
- 77th Kiinsai
- Trial date
- November 7
- Sensor locations
- Three points
- Sensor method
- Sheet sensors under mats detect pressure as people walk over them
What people are saying
Students find problems for themselves and use what they have learned in class to solve them. What matters in continuing to learn is to enjoy it. I hope they will remember the enjoyment they felt through this project as they enter society.