• Bengaluru has introduced an Intelligent Traffic Management System (ITMS) that will detect traffic violations and issue challans.
Bengaluru Traffic Police is coming up with a new system to deal with traffic violations in the city. According to a Hindustan Times report, the city's traffic police has introduced an Intelligent Traffic Management System (ITMS) in Bengaluru to detect traffic violations and issue challans.
The ITMS system will detect violations like speed limit, signal jumping, triple riding, talking on phone while driving, driving without seat belt and riding without helmet.
According to the daily, the ITMS system is an artificial intelligence (AI) based system, equipped with cameras that will detect traffic violations.
Special Commissioner of Police (Traffic) MA Saleem told the daily that the objective of ITMS was to automatically detect traffic violations in a contactless manner and send auto-generated challans to violators with minimum human intervention.
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommi inaugurated the ITMS system in the state capital this week. Presently, the advanced technological system has been implemented at 50 major traffic junctions in the IT capital of the country.
The ITMS system comprises 250 Automatic Number-Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras and 80 Red-Light Violation Detection (RLVD) cameras.
As soon as the camera detects a traffic violation, a challan will automatically be generated and sent through SMS to the violator.
The ITMS is manufactured by Matrix Security & Surveillance Pvt Ltd, a private company, and the software is developed by Videonetics Technology Pvt Ltd.
However, Bengaluru commissioner CH Prathap Reddy has clarified that the purpose of the new system was "not to collect fines", but to inculcate "better road behavior and compliance".
"Make no mistake, the objective is not to collect fines. It is contactless, AI-enabled and 24×7. The objective is to inculcate better road behavior and compliance," he tweeted.
Additionally, Bommai announced the approval of five more new traffic police stations in the next few days.
"Five new traffic police stations will come up in dark areas (traffic black spots) and Intelligent Traffic Management System (ITMS) technology will be used here. It will identify any traffic violation and stop stopping vehicle riders." Harassment, corruption and other problems for the riding public," said CM Bommai.
He also said that ITMS will also levy tolls and will come with provision for traffic synchronization. "Traffic synchronization has already been done from Minerva Circle to Town Hall," he said.
Meanwhile, the Karnataka CM further said that a new traffic regime has also come into existence as he has now created the post of Special Commissioner for Traffic, for which the government has appointed traffic management expert MA Saleem.
"Traffic management expert and PhD holder M.A. Saleem has been appointed for the newly created post. He has already brought many changes in traffic management," Bommai said.
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