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Just Imagine, how effectively significantly making the highway diversify the costs around safer
will the manual auditing and sector more profitable. highways and urban developments
reconciliation efforts will be along the highways.
replaced and optimized through The Changing Purpose of Stackfusion commits itself to the
the adoption of such a TMS. Edge Toll Plaza cause of user-friendly next generation
Computing and Cloud Computing The toll plazas were built for highways in India. We have been
are the other technology aspects the purpose of collecting cash. developing the Artificial Intelligence
that the Indian highway sector has Now that the cash is undesirable, based end-to-end TMS for the last
either been reluctant to adopt or yet why should there be toll plaza many years indigenously that are
to leverage well. infrastructure in the middle of the being used by stakeholders across
Edge computing ensures that highways? the country. We remain committed
the AI models and algorithms There are technology available to to the transformation to the highway
run locally -- eliminating any lags identify a vehicle travelling at 100 sector through the adoption of
because of connectivity issues. Data plus kmph and such technologies breakthrough technology that our
syncing between Edge devices on are getting better each passing team develops with its focussed
the toll plazas and the cloud could day. India can be at the forefront research.
be synchronous or asynchronous of having such highways that do
based on the connectivity situation not have toll plazas, instead users India Needs
at the respective toll plaza. The can travel at the optimal speeds Smart Parking Too
4G connectivity can also size up uninterrupted and the payment Unlike the highway sector, parking
for those locations with unreliable can be auto-debited from their is an unregulated and unorganized
broadband connectivity. respective wallets proportionate to sector where the scale is non-
Along with the workaround the distance travelled. uniform. That should not mean
solutions, the government could In case of non-payments, the that this sector should be allowed
undertake policy initiatives to make user can be issued challans or there to fall off the digital transformation
the toll plazas across the country could be easier ways of recovering roadmap.
well connected via broadband the money from user given the Parking users face issues like
so that cloud based TMS can be current levels of digital mapping for waiting time at entry & exit points,
implemented with uninterrupted a user. The savings on capital cost insufficient information on parking
cashless transactions. This would and operational cost on account of availability, parking guidance
ultimately reduce operational costs such implementations would help among other. Several startups have

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