A Vehicle Actuated Speed Display camera with an LED screen, installed by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on the newly widened four-lane B.C. Road-Addahole stretch of National Highway 75 at Melkar in Dakshina Kannada district.

| Photo Credit: ANIL KUMAR SASTRY

When you drive through the newly completed 63-km four-lane stretch of National Highway 75 between B.C. Road and Addahole, you will be under the constant watch of as many cameras, with one installed at roughly 1-km intervals.The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has been installing different categories of artificial intelligence-enabled cameras at intervals of about 1 km along the four-lane stretch — 15 on the Addahole-Periyashanthi Package 1 stretch, measuring 15.13 km and 49 on the Periyashanthi-B.C. Road Package 2 stretch, measuring 48.48 km. These cameras will automatically detect safety violations and road hazards, including wrong-way driving, accidents, stalled vehicles, pedestrians, animals, and other obstacles, warranting immediate intervention by the NHAI.

An AI-based surveillance camera installed by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to detect traffic rule violations on the newly widened four-lane B.C. Road-Addahole stretch of National Highway 75, on the Kalladka flyover in Dakshina Kannada district.