People density prediction

Risk management in high-density urban areas.

Your job is to protect the public. We use mobility data to identify large gatherings of people in small geographic areas, allowing you to create data-driven safety measures.

For civil protection, events and drone operators

Using mobile phone data and other parameters, we calculate the number of people to be expected in a particular place at a particular time. This makes it possible to prepare security measures and plan operations and events in advance. Drone operators use the information to perform drone flight risk analyses.

A beta version of Swisscom Broadcast’s People Density Prediction Service is now available.

Behörden machen Risikoanalyse und ergreifen Schutzmassnahmen

Behörden machen Risikoanalyse mittels personenbasierter Datenanalyse

Grosse Menschenansammlung – hohe Personendichte

People Density Prediction

Data-driven prediction

The algorithm combines Swisscom mobile data with weather forecasts

People density measurement

Calculation of people density in populated areas

Current data

View daily reports in hourly increments at the touch of a button

Crowd Management

Relevant events can be integrated into the algorithm independently

Use Cases

Public protection

Data-driven safety concepts

The visually processed data is updated every hour and permits the targeted planning of measures and interventions. The influence of the weather on people’s behaviour is also taken into account. Major events can be individually entered and integrated into the heatmap.

This means, for example, that if an NBC incident occurs close to a city, the threat to the population can be determined. Our service enables safety concepts to be swiftly developed based on verifiable, real-world data.

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Drone traffic management

Ground risk assessment

Switzerland adopted the European drone regulations on 1 January 2023. Since then, a specific operations risk assessment (SORA) has been required to obtain an operating licence. This requires drone operators to carry out a ground risk assessment, among other things, as drone flights are only permitted above sparsely populated areas.

(Commercial) drone flight operators can use our service to provide evidence of the in-depth risk assessment to the authorities. They can check the expected density of people in a particular area within the desired time window and selected corridor at the touch of a button, taking into account the weather as an influencing factor on people’s behaviour. Local events can be individually entered in the system in advance and integrated into the report.

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Why Swisscom Broadcast

Precision

Swisscom has a high market share in mobile communications, which results in a small margin of error when extrapolating the data to all mobile subscribers.

Experience

We have many years’ experience in data-driven solutions and the analysis of mobility data.

Data protection

We use highly anonymised and aggregated data from the Swisscom mobile network. The service complies with the Swiss Data Protection Act. Privacy is assured.

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FAQ

Which data do the services use?

What is the legal basis for the services?

What data must be processed for the services to provide the information requested by the customer?

Is it possible for the reports provided on the services to be used to identify or perhaps monitor the holders of SIM cards?

Is it possible to opt out of location data reporting for your own SIM card?

Your contact persons

Philipp Eder

Head of Drones & Robots for The Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA)

Philipp.Eder@swisscom.com
Tel. +41 58 223 34 80

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