SMART HIGHWAYS
Smart living through smart products and services is today a worldwide trend being promoted by IT companies. These companies are putting lot of efforts and resources to create useful digital solutions for promoting business, trade and commerce. Digital solutions including the Internet of Things (IoT) have become a game changer for industries such as utilities, manufacturing, automotive, transportation, logistics and even infrastructure development. In the light of these developments, Union transport and highways minister’s unveiling his concept of” smart highways” is very relevant and important, wherein the new emerging new technologies could play a pivotal role in improving and strengthening highways and making them smart. Impact of application of new generation technology is clearly visible in some of important ongoing infra projects across the country. As at work place, the scope and application of new technologies and processes expands, it has the potential for automating a number of time consuming, repetitive and less value-added tasks to improve productivity and efficiency, thus freeing up employee’s time to pursue more challenging jobs awaiting them.