A montreal company wants to help you avoid tickets

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The montreal entrepreneur Salim Djati has big ambitions for its application TicketAlert.me.

Axel Marchand-Lamothe

Saturday, 17 February, 2018 22:14

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A montreal entrepreneur wants to avoid motorists parking tickets unnecessary with an application that will notify them if they are in violation.

Still in development, TicketAlert.me currently allows users to report a vehicle that is in breach of its registration. If it belongs to a registered user, you will be immediately notified by SMS.

“We want to generalize the concept of the good neighbor,” says Salim Djati, founder of CITweb.ca, based in Montreal. It relies on the power of the crowd. We want people to be able to comply with the rules. “

Mr. Djati has decided to embark on this adventure by noting the astounding number of traffic tickets issued annually in canada’s major cities.

“As a citizen, I could see some form of injustice, since regulations are not always clear, or they have no sense “, argues the computer scientist of 43 years.

Operation

By reporting a vehicle in violation, the application users receive points which allow them then to receive the alerts.

This collaborative approach between the motorists combined with the use of artificial intelligence is at the heart of the development of his project.

“It is the economy of sharing. It takes a minute to help someone who help us maybe tomorrow “, image one who works in the computer field for the last twenty years.

Unlike other similar applications, TicketAlert.me also brings together open data from cities such as Toronto or New York. The artificial intelligence thus determines the “risk score” of a street, depending on the number of tickets issued.

“Unfortunately, for the moment, the statistics of Montreal we are not available, but we retain the hope that, with time, it will be possible to include them,” said Djati.

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The application TicketAlert.allows me to report a vehicle parked illegally with its licence plate. If the owner is registered, they will receive a notification by SMS.

Data

The future development of the application goes through the reports of users who garniront the bank information.

Eventually, Salim Djati think that deep learning (deep learning) software will help you understand the habits of parking users and will notify them automatically if they are found in violation.

“I don’t think people would like to receive findings, a joke Mr. Djati. Often, it is ignorance or just an oversight. “

The small team of developers to gradually improve the functionality of the application, as the system of recognition of license plates, according to the needs of the users.

► Currently free on the platform Android (in English only), it will see the update on iOS also.