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43,000 City Autos to get GPS Meters with Panic buttons
Posted on: 03/May/2018 3:43:10 PM
The talks and decisions by the government in considering the installation of Digital Meters in the City Auto-Rickshaws were pending for past five years. The failure in distributing the mandatory meters and also the drivers resisting to implement the rule for several financial reasons added up to the delay for these five long years.
Now the Government is all set to install the GPS-enabled digital meters in 43,000 autos running inside the city for public use in various spots and Auto-stands. This digital meter will have an in-built printer and panic buttons.
The purpose of a panic button is for assuring safety for the people hiring the Autos for transportation. When the panic button is pressed the nearest Police station will get the signal and then through GPS the vehicle will be monitored and rounded up for further verification.
A live demo was done from Anna Nagar by the Transport Department testing the device with vehicle for both tracking and estimation of readings like distance, fare and also for generating bill. The printer imposed along with the meter is programmed to calculate the basic fare and the travelled distance to give the total amount of fare as a manual output. In this way all transactions and fare price for Autos can be normalized and made generalized for public.
The announcement about this update had a very warm welcome from the people who were literally tired of getting charged highly from the City Autos. This system works like a model similar to app-based transportations adopted in Ola, Uber etc said a Transportation Official from the State Government.
This project was estimated around 109 crore for the installation of these 43,000 City Autos, then carried on for rest of the vehicles and new Autos registered for public transportation. Rosmerta Technologies Limited, a New-Delhi based Company obtained this government contract to produce the Digital meters and also to monitor the operational process.
