How we deployed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution quickly during Circuit Breaker

At the start of the Circuit Breaker, NParks enforced safe distancing measures at all its parks, gardens and nature reserves, including Park Connectors, Pulau Ubin and parks managed by town councils. This includes crowd estimation and park patrols at these green spaces, which can be laborious and tedious, especially for large public spaces. And this work is very much limited by manpower constraints. To address this problem, NParks rapidly developed a Safe Distance @ Parks website within a short span of 3.5 days for the public to access the park visitorship status. Further to that, the team partnered with GovTech's Data Science and AI Division (DSAID) which set up a squad of 1 AI Engineer, 1 DevOps Engineer and 1 Engagement manager to work out a solution to extract the visitor count from CCTV snapshots and automatically update the Safe Distance @ Parks portal in less than two weeks.