Individuals may be divided about expert system. However making use of AI cameras and cautioning systems at zebra crossings in Bangkok has actually currently won the hearts of pedestrians. The issue is the rate of the associated innovation ought to have been less expensive.
Considering That May, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has actually set up numerous cams fitted with sensing units at 2 significant traffic junctions in Bangkok: the Wong Sawang and Arun Amarin crossways.
Another 18 will be set up at crossways with high mishaps. These 20 sets cost 100 million baht in overall. Each set consists of 4 CCTV cams and a system to tape-record all video and relay it to a main database, plus a sensing unit system and noise to identify when automobiles pass over zebra crossings throughout a traffic signal.
The task was started by previous Bangkok guv Aswin Kwanmuang.
The system is smarter than numerous security CCTVs the BMA and authorities have actually set up to tape-record other misbehavior.
As quickly as a car stops at a set of traffic signal, a loud alarm goes off, followed by a pre-recorded statement in Thai stating, “Please do not block the zebra crossing. Thank you.” The alarm and statement will keep shrieking till all drivers who are awaiting the traffic signal to turn green move their lorries from the pedestrian crossing. These cams take an image of both the offense and the culprit’s image. The BMA in future strategies to send out the associated information to traffic authorities so lawbreakers can be fined.
Pedestrians have actually invited the innovation. The loud caution sound can assist inform motorists to follow traffic guidelines. The innovation is likewise assisting authorities to conserve time and curb corruption.
Needless to state, the general public and the media have actually offered the brand-new innovation radiant evaluations, and lots of people have actually asked the BMA to broaden the service to more zebra crossings in the capital.
Yet with such a large price, can the BMA manage such a growth? The larger concern that requires a more instant response is whether the 5 million baht expense per set is logical.
Bangkok homeowners have actually had some experiences that have actually left them mistrusting the nationwide and city government when it pertains to the procurement of CCTVs.
One scandal that drew much criticism was the BMA’s choice to invest 22 million baht to obtain 19 CCTVs in 2015.
In 2012, the Department of Unique Examination (DSI) was asked to penetrate another procurement case of CCTVs by the BMA. Regardless of the company being not able to discover any trace of corruption, the probe revealed some abnormalities.
The DSI apparently discovered that the BMA’s fibre-optic cable televisions were acquired at 400 baht a metre, consisting of setup costs. This was numerous times greater than the cable televisions in Pattaya’s monitoring video camera system, which cost simply 103 baht a metre– plus a setup cost of 25 baht a metre.
Ideally, guv Chadchart Sittipunt will check out the existing AI cameras and associated procurements to clarify. Make no error, both the previous and existing guvs should have appreciation for explore ingenious innovation to enhance the metropolitan environment, and ideally, the BMA will continue down this course.
However being an early innovation adopter is insufficient. The BMA requires to make certain these metropolitan management developments are likewise carried out transparently.
