
π Religious & Spiritual Organisations Β· Data Flow
How daily rituals and festival ceremonies are streamed live to devotees worldwide, with recordings kept for on-demand viewing.
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Live streaming data flow: cameras in the sanctum and hall feed a video mixer operated by staff. The mixed stream is encoded and sent to a streaming service that transcodes it into several qualities and delivers through a CDN to the temple app, website and YouTube. Recordings are stored and published as videos on demand with a festival calendar.
flowchart LR C1[Sanctum Camera] -->|Video| MIX[Video Mixer] C2[Hall Camera] -->|Video| MIX MIC[Audio Mixer] -->|Chants and music| MIX MIX -->|Program feed| ENC[Encoder] ENC -->|RTMP stream| STR[Streaming Service] STR -->|Adaptive streams| CDN[CDN] CDN -->|Live video| APP[Temple App and Website] STR -->|Restream| YT[YouTube] STR -->|Recording| VOD[(Video Library)] VOD -->|On-demand videos| APP
A digital platform for a large temple trust: darshan and seva bookings, online donations with tax receipts, prasad orders, accommodation and crowd information.
How a devotee books a special darshan slot online: choosing a date, ID verification, holding the slot during payment and getting a QR ticket for entry.
How an online donation to a religious trust is processed, from choosing a cause to issuing an 80G tax receipt and filing donor details with the tax department.
The systems used to manage crowds during a big festival or yatra: cameras, turnstiles and sensors in the field, a command centre, and alerts to police and volunteers.
Tables for a religious trust: devotees, donations to causes, receipts, seva bookings and volunteer shifts.
The states of a prasad order sent by post to a devotee, from payment to delivery, including returns for wrong addresses.