With over 6,000 AI-enabled cameras, the NRI-funded center‘s system processes 360,000 payloads each minute, 518 million events, and produces 2.5 billion conclusions per day in real time.
On September 25, the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) opened the first AI-integrated command center for a pilgrimage environment in India, the Integrated Command & Control Centre (ICCC), which would improve safety, expedite lines, and anticipate crowds in real time around the holy hill town of Tirumala.
N Chandrababu Naidu, the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, officially opened the facility, which was constructed as a public-private partnership with assistance from NRI donors.
The state administration claimed that this is the first temple ecosystem in India to scale methods often seen at important transportation hubs to the religious setting of Tirumala, combining physical and cyber surveillance in a single AI-driven command center.
According to the statement, it ensures accountability and transparency in real time by coordinating quick, coordinated reactions and combining many departmental feeds on a massive video display.
Advanced cameras, 3-D situational maps, and live dashboards under the watchful eye of a committed technical staff are all integrated into the ICCC at “Vaikuntham Queue Complex–I.”
What is the role of ICCC?
The AI-powered center is helpful for safety and security, crowd prediction, queuing analytics, and giving information to combat cyberthreats, among other things.
The ICCC offers information for sarva darshanam flow optimization, wait-time estimate starting with Alipiri, and real-time crowd density. According to the authorities, it is helpful for automatic notifications for distress signals, face recognition-assisted identification for missing individuals, and guided evacuation routes using 3D graphics.
The AI center offers interactive 3D maps that show the status of accommodations, waiting compartments, and red-zone congestion.
In order to safeguard TTD’s operations and reputation, it also keeps an eye out for assaults against temple digital assets, false information, and defamatory material, according to the statement.
AI/ML and NVIDIA-supported infrastructure power the ICCC.
A concept inspired by Silicon Valley
The October visit to Silicon Valley by IT Minister Nara Lokesh serves as a motivation for the ICCC. He met a number of start-ups focused on AI, cyber security, digital twins, and smart cities.
According to the statement, “under his direction, discussions with like-minded NRIs started to develop an agenda to use frontier technologies at Tirumala for scale, safety, and service excellence.”
According to the statement, diaspora leaders gathered knowledge and assistance to turn this idea into a functional command center that coincided with the busiest festival times.
The ICCC processes multi-stream video and event data for real-time insights and action by using sophisticated AI, facial analytics, and 3D visualization with the support of high-performance computing. Kloudspot, a Silicon Valley-based business, powers the center’s software.
To keep an eye on and safeguard Tirumala, the ICC has more than 6,000 AI cameras. The system handles 518 million events per day and 360,000 payloads per minute. Every day, it produces 2.5 billion inferences in real time.
Tirumala, located in Andhra’s Tirupati district, is well-known for the Sri Venkateswara Swamy Temple, also called the Tirupati Balaji Temple. According to TTD, a record 2.55 crore visitors visited the temple in 2024, making it one of the wealthiest in the world. The number of visitors may vary from 50,000 to over 100,000 every day, with weekends and special events seeing much larger numbers.