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D John Samson, Municipal
Commissioner, Ramagundam Municipal
Corporation: “Ramagundam is an industrial
town but has a very erratic traffic. Till date,
we did not have any traffic management
were representing through Kinetic Hyundai Elevator & Escalator. or solution in the city. We came looking
Now, we have been independently marketing our products in other for solutions like automatic traffic signaling
places as well. We are not only supplying the products on our own systems, footpath and junction improvement
but we also manufacture the products for other companies. So, system, parking systems and solutions,
road geometric system, rumbling blocks
these parking systems, by and large, will generally be installed in whereby we can at least control the speed
the basement depending on the number of car parks. Most of of the vehicles and few safety systems for
our systems are working in hydraulic base systems and we have pedestrians. The Expo was an eye-opener
an independent parking system available with us. Apart from that, for Urban Planners and Urban Managers
where there is space constraint in a city like Mumbai, a tower because even though we want to provide
parking can be used which provides space for a 50-car or 60-car some traffic management solutions in cities
parking arrangement. We have participated for the first time in this or urban areas, we are not finding the right
expo, and had a great response from everyone”. partners. We are not familiar with the latest
ID Tech Solutions Pvt Ltd too exhibited for the solutions that are available in the market.
first time. Said Samarth Vig, its Senior Manager, So, an Expo like this is a good platform to
“ID Tech Solutions are leaders in RFID and I-O-T find variable solutions for the cities and also
based technologies especially in the field of toll identify partners to interact with them in the
management and road safety. Our solutions near future.
are being used by the biggest of the toll “We have made a decision to have
concessionaires in India. We are manufacturers few signaling systems, PMS (Parking
of readers under the Make-in-India initiative, Management System) and Parking
and are working on manufacturing and designing of RFID tags, Accessibility System. In consultation with our
specifically for the vehicles and the traffic management solutions. police department and their requirement,
The new tyre identification system, the first of its kind in India, is one we may go for few traffic accessories, tools
of our new launches. It is a complete system where the transporters and equipment which they would require
can manage the tyres and their fleet. So, if any of their tyres get for road safety and road geometrics.
compromised we get that information. It is an anti-theft solution “We will also have some consultation
which is being extensively used by a few PUCs already. Our other and data analysis for Ramagundam
initiative is the wagon tracking system which we are doing with the city. TrafficInfraTech Expo gave me an
Indian Railways. in-depth knowledge about the latest traffic
“We are exhibiting for the first time in this exhibition and have equipment and solutions from around the
received an overwhelming response. TrafficInfratech Expo has world. It gave us an insight on where does
provided us the audience to whom we can exhibit our solutions. our city stand and what needs to be done
It is a good experience and we are looking forward to participate to keep our people safe”.
next year too”.
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