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Although many smart video surveillance tools, inspired by the recent advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology and machine learning (ML) algorithms, enable object detection and identification, it is still challenging to predict the crowd mobility in real-time for preventing potential disasters. In this paper, we propose an intelligent crowd engineering platform using mobility characterization and analytics named ICE-MoCha. ICE-MoCha is to assist safety management for mobile crowd events by predicting and thus helping to prevent potential disasters through real-time radio frequency (RF) data characterization and analysis. The existing video surveillance based approaches lack scalability thus have limitations in its capability for wide open areas of crowd events. Via effectively integrating RF signal analysis, our approach can enhance safety management for mobile crowd. We particularly tackle the problems of identification, speed, and direction detection for the mobile group, among various crowd mobility characteristics. We then apply those group semantics to track the crowd status and predict any potential accidents and disasters. Taking the advantages of power-efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and ubiquitous availability, we specifically use and analyze a Bluetooth low energy (BLE) signal. We have conducted experiments of ICE-MoCha in a real crowd event as well as controlled indoor and outdoor lab environments. The results show the feasibility of ICE-MoCha detecting the mobile crowd characteristics in real-time, indicating it can effectively help the crowd management tasks to avoid potential crowd movement related incidents.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19051025","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,1]],"date-time":"2019-03-01T03:29:21Z","timestamp":1551410961000},"page":"1025","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["ICE-MoCha: Intelligent Crowd Engineering using Mobility Characterization and Analytics"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Abdoh","family":"Jabbari","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computing and Engineering, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA"},{"name":"College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Jazan University, Jazan 45142, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Khalid J.","family":"Almalki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computing and Engineering, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4449-2425","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Baek-Young","family":"Choi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computing and Engineering, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sejun","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computing and Engineering, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,2,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Service, E.N. 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