The traffic junctions and important government buildings in Chandigarh will now be monitored from a single unit i.e. Integrated Command and Control Center (ICCC), which was inaugurated on Monday.
Manoj Kumar Parida, Adviser to the Administrator inaugurated the centre, set up at Municipal Corporation building, Sector 17 here.
Elaborating about the ICCC, KK Yadav, MCC Commissioner said that this centre shall monitor the smart field elements like CCTV surveillance cameras via a video wall, wherein more than 20 cameras have been installed for real time surveillance of traffic junctions and other important buildings of Chandigarh like Municipal Corporation building etc.
The Commissioner said that the Intelligent Traffic Management System (ITMS) wherein traffic enforcement systems including red light violation detection, over speed violation, automatic number plate recognition has been initially installed on two locations of the city. This shall help the city in making roads safer and reduce traffic accidents. In addition to this, a public addressing system has also been installed to disseminate information to the citizens, Yadav said.
He said that Adaptive Traffic Control System with a variable message signage has also been installed on the traffic junction to adapt to the real time traffic condition of the junction and provide maximum green time to the vehicles.
The city owned optical fiber has been laid for the real time connectivity between the on-field devices and command center for live monitoring of the system. This system also includes an advanced video analytics system and generates automatic event alerts for events like abandoned baggage, illegal parking, crowd detection etc.
The surveillance cameras with analytics has been installed at the entry and exit of a parking lot which not only helps in effectively monitoring the operation of the parking lot but also provides vital inputs like color, make and model of the vehicle entering and exiting the parking area, which can be used to generate alarms for blacklisted vehicles and search vehicles based on the attributes. This surveillance system shall help in real time surveillance and shall generate alarms for specific incidents, Yadav added.