India looks to launch aircraft-like \'black box\' system for public transport

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India looks to launch aircraft-like 'black box' system for public transport

Govt is learnt to have asked all state tranpsort corps to install the IoT-enabled system in public buses by Apri1, 2019; centralised control units in various zones will monitor data, run analytics

Yuvraj Malik  |  Bengaluru 

If all goes well, India may soon have sensor-based tracking devices, akin to the 'black bixes' installed in aircraft, in all public vehicles across the country. The central government is learnt to be actively looking at introducing an IoT (Internet of Things)-based technology to improve public transportation systems, especially state-run buses.

Two years ago, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways had put forth a white paper on introducing an IoT solution that would digitalise rides data and feed it real-time to a central monitoring system. Other than the emergency ...

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First Published: Tue, October 16 2018. 07:01 IST