Staff at Sydney Olympic Park and Transport for NSW will be working hard behind the scenes on each of the four nights, acting as eyes in the sky to support crowd control at the stadium’s high-tech Coordination Centre.
The AI program combines features such as de-identified CCTV footage, weather data and social media to accurately predict crowd movements and mood around the stadium.
This allows teams to prevent problems before they occur and implement a range of measures like opening more exits, redirecting people, giving live updates, deploying more staff or playing music to keep the mood up.
This will be the biggest test yet for the trial, which kicked off in 2023 as part of the NSW Government’s $45 million Smart Places Acceleration Program.
The technology has been successfully used for other events including the recent Laneway Festival and Big Bash League cricket.
