July 16, 2021
published at 5:28 AMReuters
A drone is operated to monitor the capacity to prevent overcrowding at beaches in Sitges, Spain, July 15, 2021.
Reuters
SITGES, Spain, July 15 - With a summer heatwave sending hordes of people to the beach, authorities in the northeastern Spanish seaside town of Sitges are trialling the use of drones to monitor crowds in real-time and counter a rapid rise in Covid-19 contagion. It s a pioneering system, said Ricardo Monje, a drone operator with the project s developer Annunzia ES. We can take photos, pass them through some software and with the software we can count how many people are on the beach.
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