Anomaly Detection of Pedestrian Flow: A Machine Learning Method for Monitoring-Data of Visitors to a Building

Abstract

Many public facilities such as community halls and gymnasiums are supposed to be evacuation sites when disasters occur. From the viewpoint of managing such facilities, it is necessary to monitor the usage and to respond immediately when an anomaly occurs. In this study, an integrated system of IoT sensors and machine learning for anomaly detection of pedestrian flow was proposed for buildings that are expected to be used as emergency evacuation sites in the event of a disaster. For trial practice of the system, infrared sensors were installed in a research building of a university, and data of visitors to the fourth floor of the building was collected as a time series data of pedestrian flow. As a result, it was shown that anomalies of pedestrian flow at an arbitrary time of a day with an occurrence probability of 5 % or less can be detected properly using the data collected.