Artificial Intelligence cameras catch traffic violators and send challans in Bengaluru

The Bengaluru traffic police have introduced an Intelligent Traffic Management System (ITMS), where artificial intelligence-enabled cameras will detect traffic violations and issue challans through SMSes to mobile phones.

Special commissioner of police (traffic) M A Saleem said the ITMS’s objective was to automatically detect traffic violations in a contactless manner and send auto-generated challans to the violators with minimum human intervention. The ITMS employs artificial intelligence and machine learning to automatically detect traffic violations, he said.

The ITMS has been implemented at 50 important traffic junctions across the Karnataka capital; these cameras will book cases of violations of speed limit, red lights and stop lanes as well as offences such as helmet-less travel, triple-riding, use of mobile phones while driving and driving without seatbelts.