 "Photo: Kamlesh Pednekar")
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 response, this was also seen as a means to give the authorities
