Paléo Festival: when data and AI ensure the safety and experience of festival-goers

Each summer, the Paléo Festival in Nyon welcomes more than 50,000 festival-goers per day. Behind this meticulous organization is a control center worthy of a real supervisory tower. This year, for the first time, artificial intelligence and intelligent vision technologies from Technis joined the team to make the festival even safer, smoother and more pleasant to live in.

A control center enhanced by data

Away from the hustle and bustle of the concerts, the Paléo supervision center is the nerve center of the event. This is where the essential information converges: terrain reports, weather, weather, maps, visitor flows, or even camera images distributed throughout the site.

Traditionally run by volunteers with the profiles of engineers, meteorologists or geomaticians, this unit has reached a new level by integrating this year artificial intelligence tools developed by Technis.

Artificial intelligence at the service of the collective

Two major innovations were tested this year:

• An internal generative AI application, powered by more than fifteen years of Paleo archives and procedures, making it possible to provide rapid and contextualized responses to each situation encountered in the field.
• Smart cameras, capable of automatically identifying unusual elements — for example a vehicle in the middle of a crowd — and instantly alerting operators, without ever using facial recognition or individual tracking.

“It's not about watching the crowd, but about watching over them,” summarizes Pascal Viot, coordinator of the Paléo Festival Reception and Safety Department.

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Better understand crowd dynamics

Thanks to the analysis of data from Technis sensors and cameras, festival teams can now measure and understand the collective behavior of festivalgoers :

• attendance rate in real time,
• density in sensitive areas,
• optimizing access,
• fluidity of entries and exits.

This valuable information makes it possible to make instant decisions to improve safety, the movement of people, and the overall visitor experience.

An experiment that is set to last

If this first collaboration between Paléo and Technis proves successful, artificial intelligence will be an integral part of festival management in future editions. An initiative that perfectly illustrates Technis' mission: put data at the service of the collective, to make major events safer, more sustainable and more humane.