Bharti Airtel and Bangalore-based tech firm Mapunity Information Systems are joining hands with the Mumbai traffic police to help you reach on time.
BANGALORE: Tired of those long hours in traffic jams on your way to office and back? Your problems will soon be over. You could find out about roadblocks in advance and plan a different route to avoid delay.
Bharti Airtel and Bangalore-based tech firm Mapunity Information Systems are joining hands with the Mumbai traffic police to help you reach on time.
A project on traffic information system, which has been implemented successfully in Bangalore, could be implemented in Mumbai in six months. According to the India president of mobile technology services of Bharti Airtel Sanjay Kapoor, plans are on to expand the project to other cities in India including Mumbai.
Joint commissioner police (Traffic), Mumbai police, Vijay Kamble said, “We will think of it when either of the companies approaches the department.” Chief executive of Mapunity Information Systems, Ashwin Mahesh, said he has already visited Mumbai to study the traffic pattern.
The project, which took off in June in Bangalore, has gained popularity in Bangalore. Commuters who took at least three hours to cover a stretch of 15 kilometres now get traffic congestion update beforehand and take less congested routes.
Bangalore traffic police along with Mapunity Information Systems has developed geographical systems and Bharti Airtel have created a mobile technology to provide updates on traffic flow at every junction of the tech city.
“Airtel has set up over 200 micro towers to assess the density of traffic in a particular stretch or a junction from the number of transaction counts of cell phones and people within the tower’s range of detection. The number of people in a given location is correlated with congestion in that location,” explained Mahesh. “You will have check up for the traffic congestion at various junctions since the update provides you the data at that point of time,” Mahesh said.
The project, which was conceptualised by the Mapunity Information Systems a year ago, has attracted over 20,000 users in Bangalore in the two months since it has been operationalised. There are over 1,200 locations in the database, monitoring about 200 junctions using 200 Airtel micro-towers.
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