230 high-tech cameras for monitoring traffic violations in Mangaluru to be commissioned soon

Mangaluru city police install 230 high tech traffic surveillance cameras to monitor and enforce traffic violations effectively.

Traffic violations namely signal jumping, driving without helmet, over-speeding, triple riding, driving without wearing seatbelt on major roads like M.G. Road and Mangaladevi Temple Road and 32 other locations in the city henceforth will not go unnoticed as Mangaluru city police are all set to commission 230 high-tech traffic surveillance cameras newly installed.

The new cameras will capture photographs and take video of each violation and send the same to the Integrated Command Control Centre at the Lalbagh. The police officer sitting at the Centre will authenticate the visuals, which will lead to issuing e-challan to owner of vehicle registered in the country.

These new cameras were installed as part of the phase two of Intelligent Traffic Management System Project under Mangaluru Smart City Mission. Home Minister G. Parameshwara is expected to commission the operations of the cameras soon.

As many as 15 cameras were installed in phase one of the project. The feeds of 15 cameras have multiple purposes, like for monitoring air pollution, in addition to traffic surveillance.

An official from Mangaluru Smart City Ltd. said all the 230 cameras will be used for traffic enforcement and monitoring. Among these 230 cameras include ‘Automated Number Plate Recognition’ (ANPR) cameras, evidence cameras and ‘Bullet’ cameras.

The official said each of the two poles placed at every location will have two ANPR cameras and a evidence camera to record movement of vehicles. While ANPR cameras will capture images of all offences, the evidence cameras are used specifically to register ‘no seat belt’ cases. The bullet cameras are used for traffic monitoring.

A 10-second video and about 30 images of each violation captured by the cameras get transferred into the system maintained at MSCL’s Integrated Command Control Centre. A police official looks at the images and saves them after verification. Then the feed is transferred to another system that is connected with the vehicle database ‘Parivahan’ of Union Transport Department, which is maintained by the National Informatics Centre. After verification of vehicle details displayed, the e-chalan gets generated for collecting penalty.