Solutions

Use cases and applications for optimal civil safety

Ways to use antavi — picked by job, not by feature.

Every solution runs on the same template-based cockpit — either as a single use case or in mixed-mode from one central console (e.g. medical and security on one map). More on the template system →

Insights

Stories from individual projects

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Luzerner Fasnacht 2026 — 280,000 visitors, one safety plan

Omnisafe GmbH on the safety planning for the Lozärner Fasnacht — antavi was part of the solution as the mobile operations centre.

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Stress test antavi 360°

What happens when 100+ responders work on antavi 360° at the same time — and how we hardened performance, scalability and UX where it matters most.

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Festival weekend

Heitere Open Air Zofingen, Fantastical Kreuzlingen and Street Parade Zürich — three stages, one operational cockpit.

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Traditions that move crowds

Maienzug in Aarau and Zapfenstreich in Lenzburg — crowd management at two events where tradition and the flow of people meet.

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Three events, one system

Albanifest Winterthur, Stadtfest Luzern, Zurich City Triathlon — antavi 360° in action at three very different events on the same weekend.

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Jublasarium 2025 — three years of safety planning

Dominic Beck looks back at one of the largest children's and youth camps in Switzerland — and at antavi as a partner of the Safety & Legal department.

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Zurich Pride Festival 2025

'Together for health' — how antavi 360° supported Pride operationally as a mission assistant on app and web.

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GP Bern 2025 — we were there

DOCS GmbH on providing medical care at the Grand Prix von Bern — with antavi 360° as the operational cockpit in the background.

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Crowd Insights

How anonymised location data turns into a live picture of the crowd — and helps crowd managers respond faster.

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NZZ Format @ Züri Fäscht 2023

What others in the public media say about our solutions — NZZ Format on crowd management at Züri Fäscht 2023.

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An app at Züri Fäscht

An 'app' for safety? How ten years of app data have shaped crowd management at Switzerland's largest public festival.

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Staying agile — from acute phase to vaccination campaign

From monitoring critical infrastructure to live tracking of the vaccination roll-out: how antaviOps moved with the canton of Vaud through every phase of the crisis.

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KPI monitoring for crisis response

How distributed teams build a shared operating picture in a crisis — faster, more consistent and more intuitive than classic situation reports.

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Situational awareness for the canton of Vaud

How antaviOps condensed 320 parameters from 98 locations into a shared operating picture during the acute phase of the Covid-19 crisis.

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Red Bull Switzerland: Portrait of antavi

Red Bull Switzerland portrays antavi and shows how ETH research on wearables and crowd sensing turned into an operational platform for event safety.

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Sunshine Radio: Digitalising crowd management with antavi

Sunshine Radio in conversation with antavi about the digitalisation of crowd management at major Swiss events.

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startupticker @ Fête des Vignerons 2019

How Swiss startups helped shape safety for one million visitors at the Fête des Vignerons in Vevey — together with Parquery, Securiton and Swisstraffic.

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RTS «19:30» on safety at Fête des Vignerons 2019

Romandy public broadcaster RTS reports on the safety and crowd management setup at the Fête des Vignerons in Vevey, where antavi contributed the live operating picture.

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SRF: More safety thanks to an app — crowd management at Züri Fäscht

SRF reports on app-based crowd management at Züri Fäscht 2019 and the ETH Zürich research from which antavi emerged.

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NZZ: How Züri Fäscht aims to prevent dangerous crowding

NZZ explains how crowd management at Züri Fäscht 2019 uses app data and ETH-derived operating pictures to detect risks in advance.

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VentureBeat on TwoSense and the US Department of Defense

VentureBeat reports on TwoSense — a spin-off rooted in the same ETH wearable computing environment from which antavi also emerged.

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SRF Gesundheit heute: Parkinson's

The SRF programme «Gesundheit heute» features a segment on Parkinson's — including ETH research into smartphone-based symptom detection, in which the future antavi team was involved.

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SRF: Fighting Parkinson's with the smartphone

SRF reports on ETH research into the detection of Parkinson's symptoms using smartphones — methodological groundwork for antavi's crowd sensing.

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SRF: Robot vacuum cleaners survey the home

SRF shows how robot vacuum cleaners survey homes — contextualised by ETH research into sensor technology and activity recognition, from which antavi emerged.

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SRF: Donating data for a good cause (Züri Fäscht app)

SRF reports on the data-donation initiative of the Züri Fäscht app — ETH research from which antavi's crowd sensing methodology emerged.

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Vontobel derinews: Wearables in sport and health

Vontobel derinews assesses the long-term potential of wearables in sport and health — with voices from the ETH research from which antavi emerged.

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Inside IT: App against mass panic — take two

Inside IT reports on the second edition of the ETH app against mass panic at Züri Fäscht — the methodological foundation of today's antavi operating picture.

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Startup Ticker: «SRF bewegt» with a Swiss startup's app

Startup Ticker reports on the «SRF bewegt» campaign, powered by a Swiss startup with roots in ETH research — the same line from which antavi emerged.

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Computerworld: Self-tracking for Swiss research

Computerworld reports on self-tracking as a contribution to Swiss research — contextualised by the ETH wearable computing environment from which antavi emerged.

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Netzwoche: App records daily movement

Netzwoche presents an app for recording daily movement — methodologically tied to the ETH research from which antavi emerged.

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Merlin Institute: Interview with Dr Ulf Blanke

The Merlin Institute speaks with Dr Ulf Blanke about wearable computing at ETH Zürich and the research lines from which antavi emerged.

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Tages-Anzeiger: Organisers want to expand Züri Fäscht

Tages-Anzeiger reports on plans to expand Züri Fäscht spatially — pointing to data-based crowd management of the kind antavi delivers today.

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Limmattaler Zeitung: Bahnhofstrasse to be part of festival site in 2016

Limmattaler Zeitung reports on plans to add Bahnhofstrasse to the Züri Fäscht site in 2016 — an expansion that requires sound crowd management.

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Finanz und Wirtschaft: New technologies open up investment opportunities

Finanz und Wirtschaft examines wearables and sensor technology as investment themes — contextualised by the ETH research environment from which antavi emerged.

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Tages-Anzeiger Media Planet: Wearable technology

The Media Planet supplement of Tages-Anzeiger explores wearable technology and its applications — with reference to the ETH research from which antavi emerged.

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Berner Zeitung: Sensors on your feet, on the lens and in your pocket

Berner Zeitung explores ETH research into wearable sensors — early work that informs today's antavi crowd sensing platform.

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Zeit.de: WLAN signals reveal what people are doing

Zeit.de reports on ETH research into passive person detection using WLAN signals — early work that informs antavi's crowd sensing today.

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20 Minuten: Google's assault on the smartphone

20 Minuten contextualises Google's wearables strategy — with voices from the ETH wearable computing environment from which antavi emerged.

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BBC: Where tech and fashion come together

The BBC explores the meeting of fashion and wearable technology — with context from the ETH research environment from which antavi later emerged.

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BBC: Expert assessments of Samsung's Galaxy Gear

The BBC gathers expert views on the Galaxy Gear smartwatch — with voices from the ETH wearable computing environment from which antavi emerged.

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20 Minuten: Where the crowding was particularly intense

20 Minuten visualises, based on ETH Zürich app data, where the crowding at Züri Fäscht was particularly heavy — early work that informs today's antavi operating picture.

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Tages-Anzeiger: Making Züri Fäscht safer with predictions

Tages-Anzeiger reports on ETH research that aims to make Züri Fäscht safer with forecasts — early work that informs today's antavi platform.

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PCtipp: ETH releases app for Züri Fäscht

PCtipp reports on the ETH research app for Züri Fäscht 2013 — early work that informs today's antavi crowd sensing platform.

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NZZ: Züri Fäscht becomes a research subject

NZZ reports on how Züri Fäscht 2013 became a research subject for ETH crowd sensing — the seedbed of today's antavi platform.

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NZZ: A successful Züri Fäscht app

NZZ takes stock of the ETH Zürich Züri Fäscht app 2013 — the research foundation from which today's antavi platform emerged.

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Luzerner Zeitung: Züri Fäscht is open

Luzerner Zeitung covers the opening of Züri Fäscht 2013 — and with it the first large-scale deployment of the ETH research app from which antavi emerged.

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Blick: Did the organisers underestimate the crowds?

Blick asks about the panic situation at Züri Fäscht 2013 — a debate that demonstrated the need for data-based crowd management of the kind antavi delivers today.

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20 Minuten: «We are prepared for a storm»

20 Minuten follows the preparations at Züri Fäscht — with a look at the ETH-supported crowd management from which antavi emerged.

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