The AI camera installation in Mahim’s GVP is a part of BMC’s plan to eliminate GVPs through ward-based action plan that entailed installing CCTV cameras, additional collection services and behavioural change campaign. (File)

In a pilot project launched to deter littering in public spaces, unauthorised garbage dumping will set off alarms in the city through a blaring loudspeaker and attract heavy penalties.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has installed an AI camera equipped with a live warning loudspeaker in Mahim’s Gajanan Vatika, a garbage vulnerable point (GVP) which records chronic waste dumping.

The pilot project entails an AI camera which will detect an individual’s movement approaching to dump garbage.…