The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

Smart police "robots" will monitor illegal parking blackspots throughout the day

2022-03-08T01:21:07.362Z


Last year, more than 1 billion yuan of revenue from the warehouse came from the police copying license plates. Although the police have issued 3.3 million "beef jerky" a year, the problem of illegal parking is still serious. The police plan to strike again and install manned personnel at illegal parking black spots


Last year, more than 1 billion yuan of revenue from the warehouse came from the police copying license plates. Although the police have issued 3.3 million "beef jerky" a year, the problem of illegal parking is still serious.

The police plan to strike again and install robots equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) technology at illegal parking black spots to monitor the illegal parking situation 24 hours a day. Traffic police officers will report to the illegal parking owners according to the 70-second screen sent by the robot. For prosecution, the test results of the two robots are satisfactory. It is expected that after fine-tuning and sorting, they will be officially released on duty in September this year, and will be implemented first on Hong Kong Island.


Last year, Transport for Hong Kong Island installed "license copying robots" on two roads in Wan Chai and Sai Wan Ho respectively.

The picture above shows the Sai Wan River.

Last year, Transport for Hong Kong Island started installing "license copying robots" on two roads in Wan Chai and Sai Wan Ho respectively.

The robot is equipped with two portable systems, each with a high-definition camera lens, using 4G wireless transmission to image analysis software (artificial intelligence) to identify license plates and traffic crimes.

The robot will monitor the traffic situation and record the vehicles that violate the traffic rules, including illegal parking on the single yellow line, double yellow line and bus stop, and automatically lock the vehicle that has parked illegally for 10 seconds. If the vehicle does not leave, the robot will stop the vehicle for 10 seconds. The 30-second video clips, that is, a total of 70 seconds of video clips, are transmitted to the server of the Hong Kong Island Traffic Headquarters in Sai Wan Ho. The police inspect the vehicle on the screen to see if the vehicle is illegally parked, and then prosecute it, so there is no need to waste too many field personnel on copying the license plate. .

Transport Hong Kong Island installed "robots" on two roads for testing last year.

(provided by the police)

Since the robot can be monitored 24 hours a day, there is no window period at all, which has a certain deterrent effect on some illegal parking drivers who like to "steal chickens", which is beneficial to improve traffic congestion.

It is understood that the robot can automatically identify the bus burial station and will not take pictures.

However, emergency vehicles and vehicles with restricted area parking permits (such as demolition vehicles) are exempted as before.

It is understood that the Police Traffic Department started road tests in June last year. The robots were installed at the junction of Shau Kei Wan Road and Tai Hong Street, as well as at the junction of Hennessy Road and Tin Lok Lane and Marsh Road for field tests. The tests were conducted once or twice a week. Not used for law enforcement.

The test results are satisfactory. With the assistance of the Hong Kong Productivity Council, the system will be fine-tuned and improved, and the system will be launched as soon as September.

Police tested intelligent traffic enforcement robots in Wan Chai and Shau Kei Wan last year.

(provided by the police)

Last year, the police issued a total of 3.3 million pieces of "beef jerky", an increase of more than one-fifth from about 2.7 million in the previous year, and a fine of 320 yuan per piece brought a total of more than 1 billion yuan in revenue to the warehouse.

Hong Kong illegal parking is serious, last year the police issued 3.3 million "beef jerky".

(provided by the police)

01 News

Source: hk1

All news articles on 2022-03-08

You may like

Life/Entertain 2024-02-25T12:33:43.132Z

Trends 24h

News/Politics 2024-03-27T16:45:54.081Z
News/Politics 2024-03-28T06:04:53.137Z

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.