GURUGRAM: The Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) is installing over 300 cameras to detect commuters jumping traffic signals. As many as 60 cameras have already been installed at several locations, including Bakhtawar Chowk, Wazirabad, Galleria Market, IFFCO Chowk metro station, Jharsa and Captain Rajesh Pilot Marg.
According to GMDA officials, the project is being executed by the metropolitan authority along with a Noida-based technology firm as a part of the Smart City project. “Many of these cameras are installed with artificial intelligence software for to detect jumping of traffic signals and these are being monitored in the GMDA’s Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC),” said a senior official from the authority’s Smart City wing.
The system is entirely camera-based, as opposed to the radar-based systems used in other countries. Kapil Bardeja, chief executive officer and co-founder of Vehant Technologies, the private firm involved in the project, told TOI that four cameras have been set up at every junction — three lane cameras and an overview camera.
He added that once the traffic signal has turned red, the sensors placed at the junction will activate the camera for capturing images of the vehicles jumping the signal. The automatic numberplate recognition software installed in the camera will read the numberplate of the offending vehicle. The feed will be sent to the ICCC, where it will be matched with the government’s Vahan database, and the system will automatically encrypt and transfer the data of violation to the centralised server at the traffic police headquarters. The system also facilitates e-challan generation along with photo/video evidence, which will then be sent to the violators’ mobile phone via SMS.