The Gujarat Police Innovation Challenge 2026, also known as the Gujarat CCTV Hackathon 2026, stands as India's largest hackathon focused on CCTV integration and AI video analytics. This significant initiative, spearheaded by Gujarat Police (Government of Gujarat), is designed for India's innovators and builders to create solutions that protect what matters. Unlike simulations or proof-of-concept exercises, this challenge demands solutions built for real-world deployment.
The core challenge is to unify over 80,000 CCTV cameras across Gujarat into a single, intelligent surveillance network. Participants are tasked with developing advanced AI solutions for real-time suspicious activity detection, Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR), vehicle tracking, watchlist matching, and cross-camera search, all operating on live CCTV feeds—a pioneering effort in India.
Participants will collaborate directly with Gujarat Police to engineer intelligent CCTV solutions for the future of policing. This involves integrating diverse CCTV systems into a unified platform, cross-referencing live video feeds with Government databases, leveraging AI to identify persons, vehicles, and events of interest, and generating real-time alerts to support faster and smarter law enforcement operations. The technology stack spans feed integration, AI analytics, video intelligence, object and face detection, cybersecurity, and scalable architecture for live monitoring. Participants will work with genuine CCTV footage from active Government infrastructure across departments like Health, Police, GSRTC, Panchayat, and Municipal, within a proving ground of 30+ cameras and a live simulation environment to test production-readiness.
