Crowd Detection: How AI Predicts Busy Areas
Duncan Bandojo2025-10-26T15:10:10+00:00You might use Google Maps in your daily commute, but have you ever wondered how it provides real-time traffic data? Or how it highlights the busiest areas and even the popular times for a business? To achieve this, Google powers these features with large-scale analysis and crowdsourcing from our smartphone location data. Subsequently, an artificial intelligence (AI) application is used to also predict crowd levels in the coming hours and days, instead of being limited to real-time situations. Google Maps' features for live busyness, popular times, and traffic are a suite of AI-powered systems. Specifically, they are built on crowdsourcing [...]
