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TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

Powering the AI Revolution

on Indian roads

VTRAC Worldwide becomes the latest force in Traffic

management field following its strategic partnerships
with RCE Systems and All Traffic Solutions.

angalore based VTRAC is all set to push the an intersection. DatafromSky can be deployed for a short term
envelope of traffic management in India. The to gather high-precision traffic flow data.
firm is an onsite and offshore provider of traffic While the concept seems simple enough, it’s a highly
surveys and transportation data analytics globally. complex task that requires sophisticated image processing
BIts reports have been the backbone of multiple and spatiotemporal techniques. The challenges in such an
planning and infrastructure initiatives driven by the public and undertaking stem from detecting the object from the aerial
private entities around the world. The company has gradually video and tracking it with accuracy. Extracting trajectory data
expanded its operations in India to introduce and establish is hindered by camera movement, objects in the background,
Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things for smarter, more lens aberrations etc. Yet mathematically, the aerial images are
effective traffic infrastructure design and maintenance. most suitable for detection and trajectory prediction of moving
The company has recently collaborated with RCE Systems, a objects. The fact that it can decode meaningful information
Czech firm that has its niche in robotics, computer vision and from such images is what makes it a promising and one-of-a-
embedded systems. Its research and development projects kind approach in traffic safety management.
yielded a unique traffic solution christened DataFromSky. DataFromSky is tailored for the unsystematic Indian traffic
This is a software that automatically detects and tracks scenario. It is also cost-effective as a single UAV can cover more
moving objects from aerial video captured by drones or other than 100,000m2 area. It’s easy to install the sensor for this
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). The video is then processed system and get the drones in flight. The aerial video is always a
to detect every traffic participant and derive data such as backup to verify the reports. The bulk of the data processing is
speed, acceleration, vehicle category, headways and travel carried out offline which means analytics systems don’t need
time. It then collates all the data for automated evaluation of to be online continuously. With this technology, VTRAC can
any dangerous situations detected and safety assessment of
now access mathematically suitable data that produces highly
accurate results and offers scope for advanced analysis and
interpretation.
VTRAC is also leveraging their Parking Detection system,
a smart parking system. Using AI, it defies the constraints of
traditional parking management systems that use in-ground
or overhead sensors. The data about the type of car, duration
of parking and real-time occupancy are stored on the cloud
for easy access from an internet connection anywhere. This
system is packaged with mobile applications for both the
drivers and car park managers. These enable online payments,
routing to nearest parking lot, remote monitoring of cars and
parking violation management.

DataFromSky vehicle detection and categorization

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