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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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