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Summon Auntie
10 February 2025
Automating the detection of vehicle-related offences
Problem
Current enforcement efforts rely heavily on in-person patrols (e.g. routine checks, responding to complaints, or targeted operations at potential hotspots). This means that violations could go undetected or face delayed detection.
While there are some permanent and temporary camera deployments, these systems are typically single-purpose – designed to detect only one type of violation.
🚘 How might we detect vehicle-related offences more rapidly and comprehensively, to create safer and smoother roads for all?
Product Goals
We want to create an enforcement system that is:
Accurate: Meets or exceeds the accuracy of current manual enforcement efforts and camera deployments.
Cost-efficient: Results in manpower and cost savings for agencies.
Scaleable: Able to detect different types of offences and be deployed to different geographical areas.
Summon Auntie leverages the automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras that are currently being trialed by ERP X (HfPG, 2024) and the team's experience with Roadbuster (HfPG, 2024). More information about the cameras can be found here.
Our Approach
Understand: the landscape of traffic and vehicle-related offences in Singapore, how enforcement is currently done, what is important to the relevant agencies, and what our existing ANPR cameras can/cannot do.
Scope down: to what offences we think are most impactful to focus on and what we can do in 1 month.
Key Features of our Prototype:
Real-time processing of camera data
Our ANPR cameras are cloud-connected so vehicle detections are streamed directly to secure servers for immediate analysis.

Location of cameras we used for our prototype
Detection of off-peak vehicles during restricted hours and lorries with inadequate safety measures
Admin portal to verify and export the details of verified violations
Our assumption is that any follow-up actions are done in a separate system.

What's Next?
🚍 Expand our prototype to cover other offences (what offences do you think we should cover next? )
💬 Get feedback from relevant agencies.