Gurgaon: Every time a vehicle jumps a signal, someone at the city’s traffic command centre spots it on CCTV feed and a challan is issued to the violator. But now, the police has asked GMDA to make zebra crossings and stop lines at 20 important junctions, where cameras are installed, so that they can be used to automatically issue challans.
Maqsood Ahmed, DCP (headquarters) and CEO (mobility) at GMDA, said that while the cameras were installed at the spots, they could not be used to generate challans automatically. “While we do issue challans, it is after someone spots a violator at the integrated command and control centre. Once we have these markings, it will be fed into the cameras and the algorithm can generate automatic challans and send them to the violators through a message,” said Ahmed. A similar system is used in Delhi.
Some of the locations where the cameras have been installed include Bakhtavar chowk, Galleria market and Signature Tower. A request to make the markings has been sent to GMDA.
More than 800 CCTV cameras were installed in the city under the smart city initiative. A total of 1,200 cameras are to be installed in phase one of the project. These cameras are installed with automatic number plate recognition and traffic light violation detectors among other artificial intelligence software systems, which are used by the traffic police to identify the violators.
“The feed from these cameras are helping the police for city surveillance, traffic monitoring & control,” said a senior GMDA official from the smart city wing. He added that the authority hopes to increase the number of cameras soon. Other than policing and traffic surveillance, the cameras are also being used by other departments for monitoring streetlights, water, sewerage, garbage and property taxes. The feed from these cameras is displayed at the live monitors at the integrated command and control centre, which has been set up at the GMDA office in Sector 44. A team of traffic police monitors the feed round-the-clock.