- Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been shaping the law and order situation of Chandigarh traffic.
- The Automatic Number Reading Recognition (ANRR) software in the cameras enables them to read the number plates of vehicles from the rear as well.
- The cameras are capable of catching all types of road violations.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has recently shaped the law and order situation in Chandigarh traffic, as well as providing a boost to law enforcement agencies, which are now able to detect not only vehicles involved in crimes but also those that are stolen.
At least 600 high-resolution CCTV cameras are monitored by the Police Command and Control Centre (PCCC), Sector 17, and are equipped with multiple sensors that can detect traffic violations as well as a video recording of vehicles during the day and night.
The cameras’ Automatic Number Reading Recognition (ANRR) software allows them to read vehicle license plates from the rear as well.
“These sensors were ‘taught’ about specific traffic violations more than three hundred times. The sensors were taught about the timing when traffic rush increases and then what to do. The feedback was fed into the sensors about particular issues and what to do when it happens. The sensors were installed in the CCTV cameras months before they start working in March this year,” a senior project officer with Smart City Limited, Chandigarh, requesting anonymity, said.
“So far, 600 CCTV cameras installed at 40 locations work 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” said a police officer at PCCC, Sector 17. Many people believe that cameras do not function at night. We are working to improve these cameras’ ability to detect violations in fog as well.”
The cameras can detect violations such as speeding, signal jumping, zebra crossing, wrong-side driving, riding without a helmet, driving without a seatbelt, and so on.
“More than 2.50 lakh challans have been issued through CCTVs since the day of inauguration March 27. More than 20,000 violations were caught during the night,” the traffic police officer said.
Where the cameras are installed
The 40 traffic junctions include the light points of Housing Board, Kalagram, Railway, Transport, and Press, apart from Sector 17, PGI roundabout, and 66 KV light point on Madhya marg; all light points from Zirakpur barrier to Sector 38-25 light point on Dakshin Marg, from village Faida barrier to St Kabir light point on Purv Marg, from village Faida Barrier to ISBT 43 on Vikas Marg, on Jan Marg covering cricket stadium roundabout, and Sector 16-17 light point.
The four junctions that witnessed the most traffic violations are the Housing Board light point (from Panchkula), airport light point (from Zirakpur); Hallo Majra light point (from Mohali), and 66 KV light point (from New Chandigarh).
