more-in The Motor Vehicles Department (MVD) is gearing up to roll out a comprehensive and fully automated Traffic Violation Monitoring and Management System (TVMS) with Third Eye, a traffic violation reporting system by the public, with the technical support of Keltron. The department is awaiting administrative sanction from the government to go ahead with the project proposed by Keltron. “The idea is to centralise the Third Eye operations for speedy and prompt follow-up action. Two control rooms will be set up as part of the project. While the existing control room in Kochi will undergo capacity enhancement, a new one will be set up in Kozhikode,” Transport Commissioner K. Padmakumar told The Hindu. Additional features Keltron proposes to build on the existing software being used by the MVD, predominantly for payment of fine for traffic violations, through the TVMS so that additional functionalities can be included to the benefit of both the department and the public. The TVMS proposes to achieve this through web and mobile application-based solutions. While web-based software application would provide new features over and above the existing software, the proposed mobile application will have two interfaces for reporting traffic violations by department officials and members of the public. Provision will also be made for transfer of data between mobile applications and the back-end server. The Android version of the mobile app will be made available on Google Play Store and the iOS version in Apple store for free installation. GPS coordinates The app will automatically capture the GPS coordinates of the location when an image or video of a traffic violation is captured, which are then automatically sent to the central server depending on the mobile signal. Once the data is stored in the database of the server, a notification will be sent back to the mobile app with an ID of the data, which can be used by the sender to check the action taken on the violation he or she reported. On the other hand, the back-end web application will assign the matter to the Regional Transport Office (RTO) or Sub RTO concerned based on the GPS coordinates. The officer concerned will be able to log on to the application and verify whether the violation reported is chargeable or not. While chargeable ones are sent to a second account, non-chargeable ones would get automatically deleted after a period. The registration number of vehicles involved in chargeable violations will be extracted using optical character recognition software, which will then be fed into the central database of vehicles to extract the details of the vehicle and the owner. “Multiple-level discussions will be held for fine-tuning the system and adding more innovative features ensuring full automation, leaving no room for any kind of intervention under influence,” sources said.

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