Rescue for Bangalore City Using Cellphone Technology

Have you ever been to Bangalore? If yes, you must be well aware of traffic situation there. To alleviate people's traffic problems, Bangalore Traffic Police, Mapunity (developer of geographic information systems and services) and Airtel have come up with an urban traffic information system known as Bangalore Transport Information System (BTIS) using cell phone technology.

With BTIS (lunched last June), real-time traffic information is generated from the cell phone tower logs of Airtel's city-wide network, and made available to commuters to see live congestion hotspots, find directions and plan their travel routes. The entire information system is available through SMS to Airtel customers using a shortcode and to others by dialing a ten-digit number. This live traffic information system is the first of its kind in India. It addresses the growing need of traffic administrators for centralized traffic monitoring and control infrastructure.

Source: Cellphone Digest