Last week marked the tenth anniversary of the Love Parade disaster in Duisburg. Misdirected crowds left 21 people dead and at least 652 others injured, some seriously. Accurate aims to help prevent such situations from happening in the first place through software simulation of crowds. Munich startup offers its software to operators of event halls, festivals and sports stadiums, among others.
Accurate: “We thought there would be no large events for a long time”
With the coronavirus pandemic, the startup's focus suddenly disappeared: Without crowds, there would be no orders. Founder and CEO Angelika Kneidl says in #CoronaUpdate:
“We thought there wouldn’t be any large events for a long time.”
After an “initial shock”, as the Founder However, as he describes, Accurate has recognized that distancing rules during the pandemic represent an optimal use case for its software: Instead of simulating crowds, Accurate now calculates how people can keep their distance from one another in different locations. The crowd simulation has become a social distancing simulation. Kneidl cites new application areas such as Bundesliga clubs, which can use the software to calculate how many visitors they can safely allow into the stadium. Accurate is also suitable for calculating the capacity of train stations in times of social distancing. According to Kneidl, the simulation software can also assist in the safe reopening of schools.
Here, Angelika Kneidl and Sophia Simon from Accurate report on the situation of the startup in the #CoronaUpdate:
