Kanyakumari: Kanyakumari district police have launched ‘Kaaval AI,’ an in-house, cost-effective traffic monitoring system that displays real-time vehicle violations on LED screens to improve enforcement and public awareness.The system is an improvement of the existing ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) cameras with displaying the registration number of violated vehicles on LED screens at the signals. District superintendent of police R Stalin launched the initiative on Tuesday and inaugurated the system at the roundabout near the district collectorate in Nagercoil. The system is developed in collaboration with students of Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai.Talking to TOI, Stalin said it was a cost-effective system in comparison to ANPR cameras, which can cost around ₹40,000 per piece. The new system will capture traffic violations using AI technology, and a dedicated team of police will monitor the violations using a mobile app. Further, scrutinizing the violation and issuance of a challan will be done by police, he said. “In the future, we will upgrade the system to detect violations such as overspeeding, not wearing a seatbelt, and rash driving. We are also working to automatically issue a challan for the detected violations,” he added.The system was developed by a team of four students with two mentors from the school of computer science of the college. Sajiv B I, one of the students, said the system can be integrated with any type of CCTV camera, whereas the existing ANPR technology works only with the specialised ANPR cameras. “We used pretrained models for vehicle detection, identifying violation and extracting the number of the vehicle.”The team proposed the idea during the ‘Kaval Hackathon,’ a competition conducted by Kanyakumari district police in Jan.