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several locations around the world.
The company also provides Traffic
Intelligence Module.
TIM is a compact programmable
hardware platform designed for
use with traffic signal controllers. It
ndia has a massive road network good ITS. There is a requirement
and is arguably the nation with of both- institutional expertise and comprises a processor card and an
the largest road network in the processes to make sure we are I/O card. Users can load their own
world. At 1.70 km of roads per deriving maximum possible value traffic control logic scripts written
Isquare kilometer of land, the out of these investments. I am sure in Perl onto the processor. These
quantitative density of India’s road that the govt has thought about scripts can access data from the
network is higher than that of Japan that, however it has not taken traffic controller and detectors and
and the United States and far higher place yet. We need to build that drive outputs or send commands via
than that of China, Brazil or Russia. ecosystem to derive the value out of the TIM I/O card. TIM can also be
Rapid vehicular growth partnered the implemented system. Another used as a local data logger to capture
with ever increasing population, rural positive factor is that till date traffic data to its microSD card.
to urban migration and economic smart city tenders are coming in. I The last few years brought
upsurge has put immense amount hope that the trend will continue,” dramatic advances in technology
of pressure on transportation expresses Dr. Rajesh Krishnan, and revolutionized the expectations
infrastructure, especially on traffic Director, ITS Planners and Engineers as citizens and clients. To compete
management practices in urban Pvt. Ltd. in this environment, CIO’s, IT
India. ITS Planners has implemented managers and Government
Managing Traffic has always been an Intelligent Transport system in need an innovative partner who
a mammoth task in India. With the Allahabad recently, and is currently anticipates technology changes
and can integrate generations
exponential growth of the cities, working on improving its products of technology with flexibility and
there seems to be no end to the and offerings to make sure that the quality. Supporting his views on the
problems. Indian cities are facing a company can deliver the maximum role of technology, Krishnan adds,
possible value to the Indian
multitude of issues such as severe market. This is a collaboration “This calls for a fundamentally
congestion; deteriorating air quality; with the central government and different way of delivering services,
increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) the OEMs. Area Traffic Control application software and systems
emissions from the transport sector; (ATC) solution by ITS is built on the integration. With a talented
increasing road accidents; and an company’s ITS products the Traffic workforce leveraging Analytics, Big
exploding growth in the number of Intelligence Module (TIM) and the Data, Cloud, Security, IoT and Bots,
private vehicles. Traffic Intelligence Server (TIS). we are geared to help our clients
“In terms of where we are as a TIM and TIS have been extensively and the Government transform
country, we are putting in place tested and successfully deployed at themselves to do digital business.”

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