Srikalahasti MLA requests Google official for AI-based services at temple to reduce waiting time for devotees
Srikalahasti MLA Bojjala Venkata Sudheer Reddy has requested Google to consider providing Artificial Intelligence-based services to the devotees visiting Srikalahastheeswara Swamy temple at Srikalahasti town of Tirupati district.
The appeal was made to Google vice-president Chandu Thota, who visited the famous temple here on Wednesday to offer prayers. The temple is revered as 'Dakshina Kashi' and is famous for the 'Rahu Ketu Puja', a ritual meant to ward off the evil effects of the mythological serpents that is believed to bring fortune.
The request appears similar to the proposal contemplated by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) to provide AI-based services at Tirumala Sri Venkateswara temple to manage the huge inflow of devotees by reducing the waiting time.
The idea is to deploy special cameras and use AI tools to recognise the visiting devotees to reduce their waiting time by factoring in various parameters. The system will calculate the darshan time based on the various queue lines running parallel, the point where they merge into one etc., to arrive at the revised darshan time.
Mr. Sudheer Reddy appealed to Mr. Chandu Thota to work out a system to implement the same first at Srikalahasti on a pilot basis, so as to replicate it in other temples.
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