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The Hindu
15-07-2025
- The Hindu
Police, ‘Uyir' to integrate AI-based smart solutions to improve road safety in Coimbatore
The Coimbatore City Police and non-governmental organisation 'Uyir' are joining hands to integrate artificial intelligence (AI)-based smart solutions to improve road safety in the city. The solutions, which are going to be implemented on a pilot basis, are from the projects that were shortlisted in the Uyir Road Safety Hackathon 2025 held earlier this year. One of the pilot projects involves the use of an AI-based technology that will enhance safety of people at pedestrian crossings. The police and Uyir have decided to test the project on a pedestrian crossing in front of PSGR Krishnammal College for Women on Avinashi Road at Peelamedu. A pelican signal is functional at the place at present, which allows pedestrians to operate the red signal for 30 seconds to cross the busy road. Once activated, the red light signal can be activated again after a gap of three minutes. 'The idea is to integrate AI into the existing arrangement so that the system will detect the number of people waiting to cross the road and operate the signal on its own. If proved successful, it can be integrated in traffic signals for automated operation,' said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) S. Ashok Kumar. The second pilot project the police and Uyir aim to launch is an AI-powered intelligent driver monitoring system that can be used for real-time driver behaviour analysis. This system will be fixed on an omni bus on a trial basis. The AI-based system will monitor the behaviour of the driver and detect if he or she falls asleep while driving, uses mobile phone at the wheel or lacks focus, said Mr. Kumar. An automated road hazard reporting and management system fitted on buses, which detects potholes or debris, and a real-time accident detection system that detects accidents and notify relevant emergency services are among other shortlisted projects from Uyir Road Safety Hackathon 2025, which the police plans to test in a phased manner.
The Hindu
12-06-2025
- General
- The Hindu
Road safety awareness workbooks for students, manuals for teachers released under Uyir Kutty Cops
Minister for School Education Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi said in Coimbatore on Thursday said that contents on road safety will be part of the assembly sessions in schools and a circular on the same will be issued soon. Explanation of road safety signs will be made a part of morning assembly sessions in schools, similar to explanation of a Thirukkural or a proverbs or current affairs, said the Minister, after releasing road safety workbooks for students and faculty manuals for teachers brought out by non-governmental organisation Uyir under its 'Kutty Cops' initiative. The Minister's announcement came after Uyir's managing trustee S. Rajasekaran and his team recommended bringing road safety education under the annual curriculum of school students. Mr. Poyyamozhi released four sets of road safety workbooks developed by Uyir for Class III, Classes IV and V, Class VI, and Classes VII and VIII. He also released faculty manuals for teachers for these standards. District Collector Pavankumar G. Giriyappanavar said Uyir Trust and the district administration will jointly undertake various initiatives to reduce road traffic accidents in the coming months. According to City Police Commissioner A. Saravana Sundar, members of Uyir clubs in colleges and the city police are conducting various awareness programmes, including a mega helmet awareness campaign, which created significant impacts among motorists. He said the best tech-based solutions and recommendations from 'Uyir Road Safety Hackathon 2025' held in February this year are being rolled out in the city. Virtual reality and augmented reality-based road safety education, artificial intelligence-based traffic monitoring, smart pedestrian alert system, etc., are among the concepts that are being introduced, he said. The workbooks and faculty guides, which have come out in Tamil and English, will be given to three lakh students and teachers in 2,000 schools in the district, a release from Uyir stated. Ahead of the release of the books on Thursday afternoon, 812 school teachers underwent an orientation workshop on the Uyir Kutty Cops Road Safety Curriculum at Corporation Kalai Arangam at R.S. Puram. Pollachi MP K. Eswarasamy; Coimbatore Mayor R. Ranganayaki, Uyir trustees R. Nandini, S. Malarvizhi, Ramesh Kumar Tibrewal, and S. Chandrasekar, and Coimbatore District Chief Education Officer R. Balamurali were present. A minute of silence was observed for the victims of the Air India crash in Ahmedabad.
