Jumped signal, hammered the roads at breakneck speed, weaved in and out of traffic and still managed to escape the policeman's clutches? Beware , in future, you will without fail get a ticket home-delivered with graphic details of your escapade. Soon, all the signals in the city will be fitted with automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras that will stream live videos to a control room. The footage will be analysed by software that can detect violations like stoplight jumping, overspeeding and helmetless driving. Though cameras will be streaming videos non-stop , the detection rates would be the highest when the signal is red and the vehicles are idle. The software can also identify congestions and emergency situations at junctions.And the software is pretty good at maths. "It can calculate the time you took to cross two junctions and work out the speed and book you for overspeeding ," said the additional commissioner of police (traffic), Sanjay Arora. To spot stopline violations, the camera has a virtual line. It will memorise the registration numbers of vehicles that don't respect the line and tickets will be generated automatically, and delivered home by post or by police officer.Police have also thought up an ingenious way to ferret out the fine defaulters . "At every signal, a police officer will randomly punch in the registration numbers of vehicles idling at a stopline into a separate gadget. The system will tell from its memory if any of them have skipped paying fines," said Arora. "The cameras will be like a big brother watching all of us," he said.The signal may also have a separate call box for citizens to phone the control room about any emergencies or complaints. "Of course, prank calls will be a cause of worry," said Arora.The automation will not only jack up the revenue of traffic police but also help constables be more productive . "Our roads are carrying way more vehicles than their capacity and there are at least three accidents every hour in our city," said Arora. "So half the time, our people are manually controlling the signal while they could be doing other things. Soon, they can be spread out to monitor interior roads."The traffic police will also be armed with more digital cameras to snap violations. "As of now, there are just some 20 cameras, we will get more of these," said Arora.The tender for the proposed integrated traffic management system will be floated in a month's time and will be implemented in six months from the time of confirmation of a vendor. In the first phase, 100 of the 270 signals will be fitted with cameras. The vendor will put up the system under a build, operate and transfer basis, which is expected to cost Rs 100 crore over the next five years. "But we will pay the vendor based on the outcome," said Arora.