Hi-tech centre to monitor city traffic
City traffic will be monitored from the hi-tech Traffic Management Centre from New Year.
Bangalore: Come the New Year and city traffic will be monitored from the hi-tech Traffic Management Centre (TMC), which opens on December 30 on Infantry Road.
Equipped with a gigantic 11 ft tall and 83 ft wide video wall fitted with an integrated circuit of 64 cube LED backlit screens, the centre is expected to help the traffic police man the city more efficiently in future.
Bengaluru will be divided into 20 corridors for the sake of surveillance and cameras monitoring each of them will have even display on the video wall manned by 20 staff members working in three shifts round- the- clock.
“As many as 175 surveillance cameras and five enforcement cameras will feed visuals to this video wall to begin with. Later a 100 more cameras will be added.
“All the feed from the surveillance cameras will go into storage and be routed to workstations via the server,” explained a technical staffer of the centre, which will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in the presence of state home minister, K.J. George.
The event will be relayed live to the Banquet hall in Vidhana Soudha where several dignitaries including transport minister, Ramalinga Reddy and food and civil supplies minister, Dinesh Gundu Rao will be present to witness it. Besides marking the opening of the TMC , the event will also see the Chief Minister launching the golden jubilee celebrations of the City Police Commissionerate, according to Mr Dayananda B, additional commissioner of police( traffic), Bengaluru.