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In a bid to motivate the local governments to speed up the smart city projects, the Centre will give about Rs 3,700Cr as incentive to states for faster completion of the projects. The chief secretaries of states will closely monitor the progress of smart city projects for early completion. The Centre has already selected 90 cities under the ambitious smart ...

Dahua Technology, a leading solution provider in video surveillance, recently  won ‘The Best Security & Surveillance Vendor of 2017’ award at the ‘Gates India ICT Excellence Awards 2017.’ Gates awards ceremony recognizes and celebrates channel excellence in delivery, performance, and commitment to the Indian sub-continent in the fast-growing market for ICT products and solutions. About 40 brands in 15 categories ...

Honeywell Home and Building Technologies has announced its project with Rajkot Municipal Corporation and Rajkot Police to implement a smart city command- and-control center along with a citywide surveillance system. The project for Gujarat’s fourth-largest city includes more than 450 integrated closed-circuit televisions (CCTVs) and Wi-Fi at 13 key public places, supported by software and servers across 107 strategic locations ...

Deepak Kumar, Chairman of National Highways Authority of India launched a new multilingual website of the organization. The general public would be able to rate the National Highways through this website within two months. The chairman also launched a Project Monitoring Information System (PMIS) Mobile App that will facilitate close, in-house monitoring of NHAI projects on a mobile phone. NHAI ...

The first-of-its-kind Intelligent Traffic Management System (ITMS), initiated by the Hyderabad Traffic Police, is set to go live in November. ITMS is expected to offer a range of benefits including traffic junction management, detection of violations as well as intelligent traffic routing and regulation  through automated alerts . To identify potential emergencies without loss of time, police have acquired sound ...

Delhi’s traffic signals would be soon equipped with radar-based cameras to detect speeding, stop-line violations and obstructive parking. Footage from these cameras would be scanned at a control room and challans would be sent to the registered address of a violator along with a photograph of the violation. The systems are equipped with 3D vision and non-intrusive sensors that can ...

Traffic Police in collaboration with Municipal Corporation of Gurugram will be installing a high-resolution camera along the MG Road and NH-8 to identify traffic violations such as speeding and road accidents. The system will be equipped with software that recognises number plates and will also record a photo for cross checks. Since font and indentation of number plates in the ...

Starting from today, toll plazas across country will have one dedicated FASTag lane. The FASTag, an RFID tag, will be available both online and offline through banks and Common Service Centres. Two mobile applications were also launched by NHAI in the month of August for ease of obtaining FASTags. The government has also mandated that new vehicles being sold with ...

The city police of Pune recently inaugurated the newly constructed building of the Central Traffic Management Centre in the premises of the Pune police commissionerate. The ultra-modern traffic management centre has been constructed at a cost of Rs 50 lakh which has a giant screen on a wall with multiple monitoring systems. Live feed of 1,230 CCTV cameras located on ...

National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) set to roll out an ‘incident management system’. Under the system, ambulances will be positioned every 50kms to be able to respond to any accident within 15 minutes of it being informed on a national accident helpline. The first phase will be rolled out in December this year, which will target the national highways ...