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security through authentication Currently, anything
as there were financial between Rs.150 to 190Cr
transactions, onboarding of get collected on a daily
issuer entities, their devices basis, said Praveena Rai. She There are always multiple challenges
& their management. With highlighted the potential when any new idea is brought in. It
the increased network of benefits of GNSS in first goes through resistance, then
tolling, newer services and enhancing user experience perhaps timid acceptance, then
complexities on the same and the toll collection reform, transform and perform.
digital infrastructure would be system. – P.K. Banerjee
envisaged. Considering various In term of the genesis of
factors is needed to ensure the interoperability, it needs to
technology’s longevity. be seen how the OBU, toll

Bruno Coudoin, highlighted charger and issuer would
differences in system work together. How the It is not as if the panelists are
architecture between Europe OBU would get tightly linked meeting for the first time. We have
and India. In the EU, the to FASTag was very critical had pre-workshop meetings of each
manufacturer of the device to the reliability and identity
was the only one doing device of the OBU because, the panel discussion, and the points
management, firmware model envisaged in India have been jotted out. Maybe there
update, data extraction and was linked to the vehicle are some divergences, but there has
transfer to the toll charger. itself. Such identification been consensus as well.
He noted the challenges of played a role not only from – A.R. Chitranshi
distributed architecture and a regulatory compliance
security concerns related standpoint, but also from
to sharing device keys with law enforcement and
the dispute management
a central point. Moreover, process, she said.
there was not much clarity
on how the virtual Id would Joydeep Shome Participation from many global
be used to protect the privacy stressed the importance experts at the GNSS workshop is
of the VLT or OBU device. of data privacy in GNSS a testimony to the belief that the
implementation for
K.C. Sharma mentioned private vehicles. To that world has faith in India's growth
the proposed Conformity extent, AIS 140 and story. We are working to realize the
of Production (COP) other connected rules vison of a developed India by 2047.
mechanism to ensure device were being modified. He – Anurag Jain, Secretary, MoRTH
compliance with standards. noted the need for robust
Rule 47 of CMVR would security and enforcement
need to be amended to measures to deter system
accommodate GNSS. manipulation and ensure
Devices would be validated the system’s success. The
during vehicle registration existing system could be Over the past decade, road network
and fitness testing. At the implemented in commercial has expanded manifolds and
time of testing fitness for vehicles as proposed in a National Highways carries over 70%
commercial vehicles, which hybrid manner where only of country's freight along with the
was every two years up to two lanes would be allotted passenger traffic. Implementing
eight years and subsequently for GNSS. There would be GNSS will immensely contribute
every year, the device would an enforcement angle, so not only towards growth of our
also have to be checked and vehicles intentionally trying economy but will also make
along with this, when the to manipulate or bypass barrierless tolling a reality for our
ownership of the vehicle the system would face citizens.
changed, an NOC would be penalty, which would be a – Santosh Kumar Yadav, Chairman NHAI TT
required. deterring factor.

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