Trafficop receives National award
Indian Express: Trafficop, the intelligent traffic management system implemented by the Pune traffic police has now received national acclaim. Prithviraj Chavan, Union minister for Science and Technology presented the national award for outstanding technology business incubators (TBI) and the Indian steps and business incubators association (ISBA) annual award on Monday to Manoj Patil, DCP, traffic police department at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
T.Ramasami, secretary, DST, Dr Samir Bramhachari, secretary DSIR & Director General CSIR, RMP Jawahar, president ISBA, Rajendra Jagdale, secretary general, ISBA, Arindam Dutta, vice president, ISBA, and Prof Arun Nigavekar, former chairman, UGC, were also present on the occasstion.
Pune traffic police and Omni-Bridge Systems, the technology firm which developed Trafficop were the joint winners of the award. Trafficop currently runs as a pilot project in Pune. Surrendranath Deshmukh, inspector, Pune traffic police, Amit Shitole, MD, and Pritam Hasabnis, CEO,
Omni-Bridge Systems, were also present.
Trafficop consists of a central server with details of all vehicles registered the city, which can been seen on blackberry handsets given to the traffic police staff. This helps the traffic police immdeatly identify the name, address of the owner of the vehicle once the registration number of a particular vehicle keyed in the blackberry. This has helped identify the owners of 320 vehicles lying abandoned at various police stations in the city. The traffic police department track the owners of the vehicles by keying in the vehicles registration, engine and chasis numbers. The traffic police have been able to identify owners of many stolen vehicles using the system by this scheme, which was launched it little over a month ago.
DCP Patil said that the central server also stores the data of how many times a motorist has broken a traffic police rule. So, the license of repeated offenders can be cancelled. Every time the traffic police stops a motorist, the traffic police can use the blackberry to find out if he has broken the rule on earlier occasions.
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