The CORFOU Project

New technologies are now being considered to monitor crowds in order to avoid incidents during mass events and to facilitate day-to-day mobility in cities. ULB's wireless communications group has developed a crowd density sensor, MUFINS, which is now being exploited economically by the company Macq.

The aim of the project "Design of a radar for monitoring crowd dynamics" is to design a complementary sensor based on radar technology to support the analysis of crowd dynamics, in particular the flow of people. This would enable longer-term density predictions and the detection of specific group movements.

A prototype will be used throughout the project to acquire data on two reference sites. The crowd will be analysed using classification techniques applied to the micro-Doppler analysis of the radar signals.

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