At least 50 traffic intersections in Bengaluru will soon be outfitted with artificial intelligence-enabled Red Light Violation Detection (RLVD) cameras capable of detecting the following eight violations in addition to identifying vehicles with outstanding fines. The violations are below:
- Seatbelt
- Overspeeding
- Triple riding
- One-way riding
- Using mobile
- Signal jumping
- Stopping or crossing stop lines, and
- Not wearing helmet
Santoshkumar RB reported that people wearing “half-helmets” (the ones not protecting the whole head) will be considered as not wearing helmets or helmetless by the camera. The cameras will be installed at 50 major intersections beginning in August, according to police.
According to BR Ravikanthe Gowda – Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic), there will be an installation of RLVD cameras at 50 major junctions across the city beginning in August and will be expanded to all junctions in the future.
These cameras, which are equipped with Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology, will assist in decreasing the physical deployment of traffic police at intersections, freeing them up to perform traffic-management duties.
Gowda stated that ANPR enables the cameras to recognize vehicles with pending fines and added that RLVD cameras will consider half-helmet or cap-like helmets as helmetless. Riders wearing these types of helmets will be ticketed for not wearing a helmet. The public should wear ISI-marked helmets for their own safety, not to avert fines.
Currently, traffic cops rely on enforcement cameras installed at intersections to identify violators, according to the department. Traffic Management Centre staff can zoom and pan the camera and take photos of vehicles that run red lights, cross stop lines, and cases can be booked.
The department has already completed a pilot program to evaluate the effectiveness of RLVD cameras. As part of this, the department temporarily installed RLVD cameras in Kodigehalli (near Hebbal), MG Road, and Hosur Road.
During the trial period, jurisdictional traffic officers rode two-wheelers and drove four-wheelers in violation of traffic rules at those intersections to see if the RLVD could detect it. The results were positive, according to the department, prompting it to decide to install the cameras at 50 intersections at first.
We drove two-wheelers and cars on one-way streets while using mobile phones, jumping signals, riding without helmets, and driving without a seatbelt. We recorded the timings and type of violation we committed intentionally in order to verify the camera’s authenticity. We later checked the data that the camera had recorded and saved. It went perfectly with our notes, a traffic officer said.
