Oktoberfest opens in Munich as the city’s mayor taps the first keg of beer to start the 191st edition of the festival. The event begins Saturday and is expected to attract about 6 million visitors overall, making it one of the largest folk festivals in the world.
Alongside the opening celebrations, Munich authorities say they are deploying AI-powered cameras to help manage safety and crowd flows during the festival. The use of surveillance technology is aimed at improving monitoring as visitor numbers rise and venues operate at high capacity.
Outlets focus mainly on the opening ceremony and the scale of attendance, while highlighting the authorities’ technology measures. Coverage links the crowd-management approach to the pressures created by large throughput, though specific operational details about how the AI systems are used are not uniformly described across reports.
