IMPRESSIVE: Ghanaian University Students Build AI Traffic Light With Cameras To Help Tackle Crime

Some students of the Mechatronics and Cybersecurity Department of the Koforidua Technical University have successfully installed a locally manufactured traffic light with Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help boost security and mitigate against crime on campus.

This came to the fore when the Vice Chancellor of the University called on the government to pay more attention and invest in the country’s technical universities to help them develop modern technological tools to help security agencies in fighting against crime.

In an interview with Citinews, Professor David Kofi Essuman explained the technology and rationale behind the new innovation.

“As part of requirements for final year students in the university, they take on projects which are normally supervised by their lecturers and some of these students came out with this project which is a locally built traffic light with cameras which is able to monitor everything within its scope and transfers live signals to the cybersecurity room on campus. The traffic has successfully been installed on campus and it is currently being used to check our security on campus”.

He continued, “Already, we have installed CCTV cameras and yet still, the robberies are going on so it means that we need to do more and advance more on that, to be able to pick up individuals who are involved in all these kinds of activities.”

“So it is our mission that, we are going to work in that direction to reduce crime in this country, and so we have just begun, and hope that as we travel along, we want to accept challenges. As a country, we need to ask ourselves where we want to be in the next five years, and what do we want to do with artificial intelligence?”.

“Once we have those concepts clear, it will guide us into how our research should go and how we can reduce the problems in this country. Crime is an issue, so we are going to focus on crime research and see how we can all help together to reduce and minimize the armed robbery that is happening in this country,” he concluded.

Source: GhanaFeed.Com