Hyderabad: An Acoustic cameras uses its inbuilt sound sensors and find the source, where unnecessary honking is coming.
The Hyderabad traffic police conducted a trial run of the acoustic cameras to detect honking at the main Police Control Room junction. The joint commissioner of Police (Traffic) AV Ranganath, with other senior officials joined the trial run.
The Hyderabad Traffic police is planning to introduce acoustic cameras to have a check on unnecessary honking. Moreover, to detect vehicles honking beyond permissible limits.
According to Telangana Today, the Joint Commissioner learnt about the legal and technological integration aspects to use the acoustic camera in enforcing honking violation.
ACOEM Group, a German company, demonstrated how honking vehicles can be identified with the help of acoustic cameras.
The traffic police intends to use this technology to control sound pollution. Especially pollution caused by motorists at various busy junctions and roads across the city. However, fines will be generated electronically to the motorists as per the law.
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