MANAGING CITY SMARTLY
There is good news coming for the people of Jammu City with the Intelligent Traffic Management and City Surveillance System along with Integrated Command and Control Centre being installed before the end of November 2022. This will be the ultimate solution for all the worries of city dwellers as state of the art monitoring system will manage the traffic and also keep surveillance over what is going on at the vital spots in Jammu which initially will be 38 in numbers but sooner than later 28 more junctions will be added to make city secure and hassle-free. The work on aforesaid 28 junctions without traffic signals will begin within next few months as requirement of general surveillance through hi-tech cameras has been projected by the Jammu and Kashmir Police Headquarters to keep a watch on general law and order situation. Reportedly, first floor of JMC’s Town Hall
building will house Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) with installation of video walls and networking. Jammu ICCC has been envisaged to be the brain for city operations which will act as a decision support system for city administration by consuming data feeds from edge devices and different departments such as Municipal Corporation, Police, Transport, Water, Fire and Emergency Services etc and empowering the officials to make quick and informed decision based upon the real time events. A few years ago, such changes were not in anyone’s mind but it was Modi Government which took the pain and has come up with the initiative called Smart Cities Project give new ray of hope to people of the many cities in the country to have all the modern facilities. The main purpose of the aforesaid project to be completed before the end of November include traffic monitoring and enforcement, route optimisation, green corridor, reduction in pollution levels and traffic jams, accident detection, etc through usage of high resolution fixed box camera to capture the live events. The salient features of this system include automatic number plate recognition, traffic violation detection system and enforcement, red right violation, no helmet, triple riding, no seat belt, mobile usage while driving and wrong parking. Moreover, this system will help the Traffic Police in automated e-challan generation. It is now time for the commuters to become law abiding as the days of free for all situation have gone and now everyone has to follow rules.