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MASAR
Saudi Arabia, currently offers MASAR a real-time tracking system, to create more space between the streets of Mecca and Medina, the most holy cities of ISLAM (Shia and Suni) during the days of Hadji. For this reason, the house AL Saud has created a Smart city research centre for Crowd Control (one of the biggest of the world). The researchers developed MASAR a tracking platform for guests and citizens to help them by planning their root towards the Kaaba
Type of content:
Assets
Type of asset:
Platform
Big data potential
Yes
Policy domains:
Urban Planning & Transport
Phase in the policy cycle:
Policy Design and Analysis
TRL
8
Implementation/customisation cost
Low
Open license availability
Yes
Ease of use
High
Tags:
Smart City
Smart Government
Process and resource optimisation
Real time information
Strategic planning
Serves:
Addresses:
| SWOT Analysis for MASAR |
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|---|---|---|
| Helpful | Harmful | |
Internal |
Strengths• Transportation analysis and visualisation which helps people to analyse road traffic and crowded area using different visualisation techniques. • Provide solution to government organisation for transportation and crowd management |
Weaknesses• GPS: The mobile application and wearable sensors are constrained by the system interface to the GPS navigation system within the device. Since there are multiple system and multiple GPS manufacturers, the interface will most likely not be the same for every one of them. • Need for intermittent connectivity • The Internet connection is also a constraint for the mobile application, car counting device, intersections cameras, wearable devices and Masar web portal. Since all those data collection sensor devices send data to the database over the internet and Masar web portal fetches data from the database over the Internet, it is crucial that there is an Internet connection for the platform to function. • Database capacity Both the web portal and the sensor devices will be constrained by the Capacity of the database. Since the database is shared between all sensor devices it may be forced to queue incoming requests and therefor increase the time it takes to post/fetch data |
External |
Opportunities• Cooperation with Transportation companies, big event management companies, buildings and areas where crowd management is required | Threats• Multiple GPS interfaces: The mobile application and wearable sensors are constrained by the system interface to the GPS navigation system within the device. Since there are multiple system and multiple GPS manufacturers, the interface will most likely not be the same for every one of them. • Need for intermittent connectivity • The Internet connection is a constraint for the mobile application, car counting device, intersections cameras, wearable devices and Masar web portal. Since all those data collection sensor devices send data to the database over the internet and Masar web portal fetches data from the database over the Internet, it is crucial that there is an Internet connection for the platform to function. • Database capacity: both the web portal and the sensor devices will be constrained by the Capacity of the database. Since the database is shared between all sensor devices it may be forced to queue incoming requests and therefor increase the time it takes to post/fetch data |
