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Yet it is from here that a quiet revolution in urban traffic management and planning has begun. Of Bangalore’s 380 traffic junctions, 180 are now fitted with 360-degree dome cameras. Each of these can be controlled remotely, has a line of sight of 1km, sports night vision, and is weatherproof. The cameras are hard-wired to the Ashok Nagar servers using fiber optic lines. A “cockpit” of LCD screens at the police station’s command centre shows junctions categorized into zones. Constables assigned to each of these zones can read number plates to assign penalty tickets to vehicles that violate rules. Back-end processes integrated with the transport department data print and mail violation letters with links to photographic evidence.
These remotely manoeuvrable cameras at major traffic junctions form one leg of a vast new information network. The second leg is a parsed cellphone tower information that generates a teledensity “heat-map” of traffic movement in the city. The third comes from city buses fitted with GPS devices that indicate speed and congestion on arterial roads. These three sources together create an integrated view of live traffic conditions in the city. Rs50 crore in traffic penalties generated in one year pays for the initial investment, and more.
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