Chennai: 500 MTC buses to get CCTV cameras

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin on Saturday launched an Artificial Intelligence based panic button and CCTV surveillance system in 500 Chennai buses for the safety of women and child passengers.
According to a statement, set up under the Nirbhaya Safe City Project, the state transport department has planned to provide this facility in about 2,500 buses and in the first phase, 500 buses in the city have been provided with four panic buttons, AI-enabled Mobile Network Video Recorder (MNVR) and three cameras each, respectively.
The MNVR will be connected to a cloud-based control centre via a 4G SIM card. “In case of any inconvenience, discomfort or threat caused by fellow passengers while travelling, the women passengers could press the panic button to record the incident,” the statement said. When pressed, an alarm bell will be raised at the control centre along with a video recording of the incident. With this alarm, the operator at the control centre will monitor the situation and facilitate and action will be taken. tnn