Delhi Police Enhance Traffic Surveillance with ANPR Software

New Delhi: The Delhi Police Department has installed 535 units of Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) software at different places around the city in an effort to improve peace and order, traffic enforcement, and vehicle monitoring. Vehant Technologies’ cutting-edge systems are being installed in high-crime areas of Delhi, such as Patparganj PS, Kalyanpuri PS, Dwarka Sector 23 PS, and Sultanpuri PS. These police stations are responsible for maintaining order in these areas.

The ANPR technology is making traffic monitoring more streamlined by integrating with police station control rooms. It does this by parsing the video feeds in search of licence plates. The licence plates are sent to the police station’s server, where they are recorded. As part of the city’s monitoring system, the police and security forces check the cars against a list of those that have been flagged as “hot,” “stolen,” “suspected,” or “barred” by the PS authorities.

The ANPR software licences are being deployed on a total of 535 cameras by Vehant Technologies, a pioneer in the field of AI/ML security surveillance and an incubate of IIT Delhi. Fifty-three software licences are now in use at the four schools located in Patparganj, Kalyanpuri, Dwarka Sector 23, and Sultanpuri. Soon, we’ll roll out the remaining software licences.

Total software licenses deployed till now:

• Kalyanpuri PS – 27 no’s
• Dwarka Sector 23 PS- 16 no’s
• Patpargunj PS- 6 no’s
• Sultanpuri PS- 4 no’s

“The system is based on real-time optical character recognition technology and monitors the vehicles to track and identify them by automatically recognizing the number plate. It simplifies the task for security personnel in identifying stolen/ suspected/ hot-listed/ wanted vehicles”, said Mr. Shailendra Singh, Head- Smart & Safe City Business, Vehant Technologies.

The ANPR system encrypts and transfers captured data to the centralized server at the Police Stations’ control room, enabling effective surveillance and data management. The system operates 24×7 and stores the number plate information of all captured vehicles in its database. Using this database, the security personnel in the control room can easily identify the offending vehicles and can take swift action for law enforcement. This ANPR system can also be used in the future for traffic rule violations like wrong-way, triple riding, driving without a helmet, mobile phone usage while driving detection, etc.

The new ANPR system is connected to the control room at the Police Station, enabling round-the-clock monitoring.

Delhi Police is committed to enhancing public safety and ensuring smooth traffic flow through the implementation of advanced technologies. The installation of additional ANPR software marks a significant milestone in leveraging AI and ML-based solutions for traffic surveillance and law enforcement.