Indian Oil Corporation has decided to keep a close watch with technology on drivers of trucks that move bulk liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and Indane cylinders for the company across the country to ensure they stay alert on the wheels and drive safely.
Monitoring of the drivers will join its earlier efforts at tracking the movement of trucks that remain crucial to maintaining supplies, from over 35 loading locations, to the more than 100 bottling plants and nearly 13,000 distributors of the company. Keen on having in place an integrated approach, the company is proposing a Centralised Vehicle Tracking and Management System (CVTMS) as well as a Driver Status Monitoring (DSM) system.
From observing the driver’s eye movements and other behaviour using advanced computer vision algorithms and machine learning models, sending out alerts, geo-fencing, determination of Geo-RTD (round trip distance) routes to creating geo-spatial database, there will be several aspects to the proposed mechanism for which the company is inviting bids from firms. It has estimated the value of the work, for five years, to be nearly ₹221 crore.
