New Delhi: The Indian Institute of Expertise, Madras (IIT-M) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Renault-Nissan Expertise and Enterprise Centre, India (RNTBCI) for organising a one-year-long hackathon, underneath which two initiatives will search to make use of know-how to scale back street accidents. Known as ‘Hackcidents’, the programme will facilitate growth of low-cost applied sciences to stop fatalities attributable to public buses.
Beneath the hackathon, IIT-M’s Linked Clever City Transportation laboratory will construct data-driven applied sciences to make public transport services in Tamil Nadu safer. The primary undertaking underneath it should equip public buses in choose districts of Tamil Nadu with sensors, to gather knowledge on why deadly accidents happen.
The second undertaking will search to make use of this knowledge in creating “low-cost applied sciences”, which is able to then be utilized in public buses in areas resembling Chennai, Kanchipuram and Tiruvallur in Tamil Nadu.
A joint assertion by IIT-M and RNTBCI states that over 10% of all deadly accidents have been attributable to public buses in Chennai in 2019 — a determine that’s twice the typical of the remainder of India.
Kapil Saratkar, assistant commissioner of Chennai Metropolis Visitors Police, stated, “Round 4,500 site visitors police are deployed by Tamil Nadu Police to handle the site visitors within the metropolis. Nevertheless, there’s a manpower scarcity and these policemen should face a number of difficulties in managing the site visitors within the metropolis.”
To assist handle this, V. Kamakoti, director of IIT-M stated that the information generated from the initiative can’t simply assist carry forth quick time period outcomes, but additionally “improve entrepreneurship concepts.”
The outcomes of this whole programme can be launched in a 12 months’s time, and can be dealt with by IIT-M’s unbiased pupil physique ‘Centre For Innovation’ upon completion.
In October 2021, researchers at IIT Bombay and Guwahati initiated a analysis undertaking that sought to make use of publicly accessible street infrastructure knowledge and geographical data to present contextualised pace warnings in automobiles, so as to scale back overspeeding-related accidents.
Since July 2019, the Indian authorities has mandated pace warnings in all shopper automobiles within the nation, which the researchers on the above-mentioned IITs had deemed to be a low-efficiency, one-size-fits-all try to enhance street security.
Supply: Live Mint