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‘Smart eye’ cameras to monitor Bengaluru roads

nder the ‘Suraksha Palike , the cameras will begin
Mitra’ plan, more than by learning how many people
U4,500 road junctions cross a particular street every
and main roads in Bengaluru day during a particular time.
will get 10,000 CCTV cameras. Eventually, if they find a
These cameras, called ‘Smart sudden increase in the number
Eyes’ will have Artificial of people passing on the same
Intelligence (AI) and will keep street at the same time, they
an eye on the streets 24x7. will register this as an anomaly,
The AI-powered cameras are and report it.
different from the normal The ‘Suraksha Mitra’
CCTVs. The cameras use a proposal also has a few more
recent module of AI developed guidelines to ensure women’s
by POLSEC—a Brazilian security safety. Surveillance at public some of the recommendations. the scheme and is also among
company—called Kinetic for places, placement of NGO Funds for the massive project the eight cities which have
Security (KFS). volunteers at police stations as will be generated through the been shortlisted for the ‘safe
According to the proposal by well as critical care response Nirbhaya Funds. Bengaluru has city’ plan.
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara units in major hospitals are been allocated Rs 667Cr under

Online Speed Radar at Chandigarh Refuge islands for pedestrian safety
in Kolkata
n a major development to approaching vehicles. It reads
aware the drivers on road ‘slow down’ when the speed olkata Traffic police have regulate the flow of traffic
Ito reign in their speed within crosses the prescribed speed decided to introduce at a junction. Pedestrians can
the prescribed speed limit, limit. The installed online speed Krefuge islands to put cross one flank of the road,
Chandigarh Traffic Police has radar is a 40-inch digital screen pedestrians at ease and wait on these islands and cross
installed online speed sensing that will tell the driver their increase their security. This is the second flank when the
radar. The main objective of the present speed. If the speed traffic clears. The islands are
installed radar on the dividing crosses the prescribed limit the another initiative at pedestrian designated spots surrounded
road near Sector 9 and 10 is to radar prefixed with night vision safety after the boom barriers by asphalt and common road
control over-speeding vehicles camera will automatically click that the traffic cops had furniture. They are often used
that lead to major collisions the image of the over-speeding installed at several places in when no traffic signal exists
resulting in fatal accidents. car and send it to the Traffic Kolkata. and pedestrians need to wait
The online speed radar is an Headquarters in Chandigarh. A refuge island or after managing one direction
interactive digital signboard Thus the violator will be liable a pedestrian refuge is of traffic before taking on the
which displays the speed of the for legal action as an e-challan constructed in the middle of next. Kolkata police plans to
will be sent to his residence. the roads, particularly those come up with 10 such islands
that do not have dividers, to in the first phase

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