The map and app allow the government to seamlessly monitor pilgrims and give a touch to the leader of their organization and make requests for special meals.
The point-of-sale map distributes non-public data of pilgrims, their health status, their apartment and other important points similar to hajj. In the future, al-Maddah said the maps will be provided with a location tool to track the individual movements of pilgrims. The tracker will be controlled through a room and can be used as a payment card instead of cash.
All this is a component of the special remedy that pilgrims are receiving this year. Other benefits: all meals, hotel accommodation, transportation and physical care are paid for through the Saudi government. As a general rule, hajj can charge thousands of dollars to lifelong-saving pilgrims for the journey.
This year marks the first time in almost a century of Saudi rule over Mecca that other people in the open air of the kingdom will not participate in the five-day hajj, which is an exclusive requirement of Muslims.
– Ministry of Hajj and Umrah (@MoHU_En) 27 August 2019
Al-Maddah, who is on the hajj planning committee, said allowing others to enter Saudi Arabia would have posed a threat to global health.
Two-thirds of this year’s pilgrims are foreigners who already live in Saudi Arabia among the other 160 nationalities who would have been represented in the hajj. The other third is the security body of workers in Saudi Arabia and the medical corps of the workers.
All pilgrims must be between 20 and 50 years old, without terminal illness and without symptoms of coronavirus.
Every year, hajj poses a massive logistical challenge for the Saudi authorities. As recently as in 2015, a stampede and a peso killed more than 2,400 people.
Measures against the crowds require the use of thousands of security cameras and guards to coordinate the movements of more than 2.5 million people densely crammed into the narrow streets, alleys and roads of Mecca and Mina.
The generation of facial popularity and other high-tech security systems will have to be complex enough to decipher them among pilgrims, dressed almost with the same white sponge.