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                  Indian cities are                      W              e envisage our   the launch of an integrated traffic
                                                                        smart cities to
                                                                                         management system.” The project
                  trying to be Smart and                                be places where   being implemented by the state
                  Safe with the use of                                  everything  is   home department will eventually see
                                                                        automated
                                                                                         10,342 cameras.
                  Video Surveillance                     through technologies such as     Further, the government had
                  and advanced traffic                   artificial intelligence (AI), cloud, Big   launched last year the Mumbai
                                                         Data and analytics. However, one of
                  management systems.                    the key components is surveillance —   Police Information System, which
                                                                                         allows the police to share all internal
                  Preeti Swaminathan                     24/7 round the clock monitoring of   communication on a secure internal
                                                         citizens and traffic.
                  spoke to Traffic Police                                                server reducing the use of paper. The
                                                                                         Automated Biometric Information
                  officials of various                   Integrated Traffic              System stores biometric data of all
                  states to find out the                 Management System in            the arrested accused in a digital
                                                         Maharashtra
                                                                                         format.
                  systems being put in                    The Maharashtra government,     The key features of the ITMS
                  place for enforcement                  in a serious bid to improve traffic   project include non-intrusive traffic
                  of speed and safety                    movement and crime detection    detection technology with 4D
                                                         has worked out a bouquet of     radars, signal synchronization based
                                                         initiatives including integrated traffic   on speed and density of vehicles,
                                                         management system attached to   and origin-destination analysis of
                                                         CCTVs which will be subsequently   vehicles for better traffic planning.
                                                         integrated to e-challan. The state   Speaking on the project details,
                                                         government has proposed 5,000   Korgaonkar said, “An intelligent
                                                         CCTV surveillance cameras to curb   traffic management system will be
                                                         street crimes and traffic offences.   an amalgamation of technologies
                                                         The  government  will  upgrade  the   like sensors, CCTVs, and 4D
                                                         existing network of 4,717 cameras   radars, which may be deployed.
                                                         and  integrate  it  with  the  Mumbai   The  project  will  ensure  that  the
                                                         Police’s ‘Dial 100’ project to lower the   signals in a corridor will be aware
                                                         present response time of 12 minutes.  of the traffic situation at each
                                                         Vinay  Korgaonkar,  Additional   junction and optimize time through
                                                         Director General of Police (Traffic),   synchronization  for  smoother
                                                         Maharashtra, said, “The objective of   vehicular flow.”
                                                         the project is to reduce the human   There will be a signal and sensor
                                                         interface to curb traffic violation with
                                                                                         at junctions. The sensors will detect
                                                                                         movement, measure the density of
                                                                                         vehicles, and use software to make
                                                                                         a decision on signal synchronization.
                                                                                         Entire Mumbai will be treated as
                                                                                         one unit for smoother traffic flow,
                                                                                         adding that based on work orders
                                                                                         being issued, the project could go
                                                                                         live in around two years.
                                                                                          The ITMS will reduce the need
                                                                                         for manual policing and traffic
                                                                                         regulation, and include an automatic
                                                                                         number plate recognition capability
                                                                                         and license plate number detection.




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