IoT for Smart Transportation- A case study by NASSCOM

Transportation sector- Overview

The transportation sector is a broad category that includes industries such as shipping,
airlines, parcel delivery and railroads. Transportation businesses operate in every economy,
and sector revenues are primarily dictated by economic activity. Global transportation
industry revenues reached $4.7 trillion in 2016, which is 6% of global GDP.1

In 2015, Asia-Pacific region was the highest contributor to global transportation, with 39% of
total sales. The Americas and Europe added 32.9% and 23.6%, respectively. Developed nations
accounted for 71.5% of sector sales, while emerging economies contributed 23.8%, leaving
only a small amount for underdeveloped frontier economies.

High-GDP countries notably absent from the top eight of transportation revenue contributors
include India.

Recent advances are in the field of:

1. Power train: battery and electric vehicles

2. Material: light and stronger
3. Mobility preferences: pay per use rather than ownership
4. Connected vehicles: Vehicle to infrastructure, Vehicle to vehicle, and communication
technologies
5. Autonomous cars: Also known as a driverless car, self-driving car or robotic car, it’s a
vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and navigating without human
input. Many such vehicles are being developed, but as of May 2017 automated cars
permitted on public roads are not yet fully autonomous. They all require a human
driver at the wheel who is ready at a moment's notice to take control of the vehicle.

(Autonomous cars use a variety of techniques to detect their surroundings, such as radar,
LIDAR (laser scan), Cameras, Ultrasound radar, laser light, GPS, odometer, and computer
vision, almost all of them requiring development in transport sector. Modern self-driving cars
generally use Bayesian Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms, which
fuse data from multiple sensors and an off-line map into current location estimates and map
updates. SLAM with detection and tracking of other moving objects (DATMO), which also
handles things such as cars and pedestrians, is a new variant. The classification is done based
on level of automation and driver assistance requirements. 2004-2013 DAPRA challenge, 2015

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https://www.plunkettresearch.com/statistics/Industry-Statistics-Transportation-Industry-Statistics-and-
Market-Size-Overview/

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Tesla autopilot, Univ. of Michigan’s MCity are some historical developments that have taken
place in this space.)

Figure 1 Autonomous Car Sales by 2035

India case

According to Mckinsey, the country’s cities are expected to grow from 340 million people in
2008 to a whopping 590 million in 2030. Meeting demand for urban services in these cities will
require US $1.1 trillion in capital investment over the next 20 years. Without the right design
and planning, this massive urban growth could exacerbate existing problems of congestion,
pollution, and traffic safety.

Figure 2 Top 5 Indian Cities by population

India has the potential to unlock many new growth markets in its cities, many of them not
traditionally associated with India, including infrastructure, transportation, healthcare,
education, and recreation. In transportation, India needs to build 350 to 400 kilometers of
metros and subways every year, more than 20 times the capacity-building of this type that
India has achieved in the past decade. In addition, between 19,000 and 25,000 kilometers of
road lanes would need to be built every year (including lanes for bus-based rapid transit
systems), nearly equal to the road lanes constructed over the past decade.

The Government of India has recently pledged to create 100 new Smart Cities in the country.
It has a sense of urgency — the first 20 cities were selected for funding with development
beginning in 2015-16. The smart city project in India is part of a $1.5tn global market
opportunity. Mass population migration to cities and urban transformation through the
application of new information and communications technology, ‘ICT’ are creating several
challenges and immense opportunities, respectively. In 2014, more than half of the world

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(54%) became urban although it is only around 31% in India today. Globally, one million
people are moving into cities every week.

In India alone, every minute, 30 country dwellers move permanently to a city. This has led to
an active demand for ‘smart city’ approaches to solve challenges of urbanization, which, if not
met threatens to strangle city life. The limitations include choking traffic, slowing waste
removal, generating pollution, and smothering the social responses of government, education
and business.

With rising air pollution and increase of cars in cities, local bodies are under constant pressure
to fix these issues and are looking towards technology to help them solve these issues.
National Urban Transport Policy 2014 and Smart Cities Mission of Government of India,
suggests usage of innovative solutions to tackle urban problems. Intelligent Transportation
Systems (ITS) is one of the increasingly used technologies to manage transportation networks
by several agencies around the world for the past decade. There has been a rise in
implementations of these technologies within Indian public transport agencies in Delhi,
Bangalore, Hyderabad and several other cities through the smart cities program. Apart from
public transportation, local administrations are also focusing on tools to help them manage
traffic, parking with increased focus towards connected cities through Urban Infrastructure.

NASSCOM Center of Excellence - IoT

NASSCOM Center of Excellence – IoT, a deep-tech IoT start-up accelerator at its core, is a joint
initiative by MEITY, ERNET and NASSCOM to build a collaborative IoT ecosystem in India.
NASSCOM Center of Excellence – IoT connects various entities such as startups, enterprises,
venture capitalists, government, and academia in the areas of IoT, Big Data, AR/VR, AI, and
Robotics.

 Co-Creation: Creation of Innovative Solutions to Real World Problems

 Accelerator: Technology and Mentorship Access to Innovators
 Enterprise: Activities tailored to the interest of enterprise partners

Solution areas for students

Students are expected to share a comprehensive solution for any of the areas mentioned below
and a marketing plan for the solution with a clearly defined roadmap and annual marketing
budget and vehicles. Use of IoT and other deep tech areas is expected to be used.

1. National Common Mobility Card (NCMC)/ E Toll - The NCMC is to enable

seamless travel by different metros and other transport systems across the country
(along with Interoperability for passenger between bus, train, metro, parking etc.
in the urban area) besides retail shopping and purchases. The approved model is
EMV Open Loop Card with stored value based.
2. Parking systems using Fast-Tag standards to park and deliver vehicles
autonomously or connected parking lots which reduce time of operations in
entering and exiting a parking lot.
3. Emergency management of allowing ambulances, police and VIP movement
across cities using connected and integrated signalling with IoT.

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 4. Traffic management platform for monitoring and alerts across city using various
sensors like cameras, GPS data from transport vehicles and other IoT based
sensors.

The solution document has to be in word/pdf within 1000 words (excluding exhibits and
excel sheets) in Book Antiqua font 11.