IV.B.1 Indian Automobile Scenario:
India is placed as sixth largest motor vehicle/ car manufacturer in the world in 2013. In terms of consumption (excluding exports), it lags behind China (around 18 million), USA (12 million), Japan, Brazil. In terms of per capita consumption of vehicles, it holds lowly position of around 129th in the world. Latest available data for registered vehicles RTO as per Government of India records
(Ref: http://data.gov.in/catalog/total-number-registered-motor-vehicles-india#web_catalog_tabs_block_10)
Year (As on
2012 15949100 11541900 2156800 167700 765800 1316900
** Tractors/Trailers etc. not classified into the above categories
Currently, it is estimated that India is home to more than 100 million vehicles. Huge market space of vehicles provides a tremendous opportunity for introduction of M2M devices and services in the sector. M2M enabled transportation system include telematics and all types of communications in vehicles, between vehicle and citizens/ Authorities (car to application), between vehicles (e.g. car-to-car), and between vehicles and fixed locations (e.g. car-to-infrastructure). M2M Applications in transport sector can enable:
1. Enhanced convenience and safety to use public transport connected Para transit and mass transit modes.
2. Optimized emergency Services.
3. Road Safety to commuters and driver.
4. Vehicle tracking including monitoring and regulating driving behavior.
5. Management of traffic optimized route and reduction in commutation time.
6. Monitoring and reduction in traffic violation including online challans.
7. Productivity enhancement 8. In vehicle entertainment 9. Automated Toll collection
GPS devices, one of the core items in telemetry, have been made mandatory in several countries in several segments of vehicles to prevent theft and accidents. For Fleet Management most of the establishments make use of specific high end devices.
IV.B.2
Enabling Factors for adoption of Domestic Connected Vehicle Market:In domestic Indian market, a large number of commercial vehicles are connected and using
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1. Fast adoption of technology, gadgets and increasing disposable income.
2. Growing use of software in vehicles to control complex electronics.
3. Exponential increase in private cars and first time drivers.
4. Increasing complexities of Driving: Performance maintenance, theft, Navigation, breakdowns and accidents.
5. Severe traffic congestion and poor quality roads of India 6. Wide spread coverage of telecom service providers
7. Vehicle market in India is dominated by entry level cars with basic features.
8. Government & Regulatory bodies exploring possibilities for enhancing Public security, convenience and optimizing field operational efficiency.
9. Companies getting active for employee safety and managing their commutation
10. Logistics and fleet management companies looking for optimizing the operational efficiency and improving the productivity.
IV.B.3
Possible M2M Applications in Indian Automobile Sector:There are numerous M2M applications in Telematics around the world. The Indian stake holders and entrepreneurs can get advantage of them and bring lot of innovative applications around them listed as below:
1. eCall - (Emergency and public Security): The end user can make emergency calls using his location (100 or other declared emergency number) and the emergency response teams can support the request generated.
2. Intelligent Transport System (ITS): It involves utilizing technology connecting People with Vehicles with Infrastructure with an objective to provide convenience, safety and entertainment. ITS enabled efficient public transport system can motivate public to use public transport instead of private cars. On an average two cars take the space of one bus and 90% of cars have 1-2 occupants.
3. Fleet Management: Vehicles which are part of a fleet can be monitored by deploying a telematics device in them along with a GPS module. The service is most used scenario in India in Logistics companies, Perishable Food product transportation, high value items movements. It has further scope in municipality vehicle fleet for garbage collection and processing, passenger vehicles safety etc.
4. School bus tracking and attendance system: The school buses can be fitted with a GPS and telematics unit. The children may be issued RFID badges. Child taps his/ her badge when entering/ leaving buses. Information is maintained in a central server keeping complete trace for the child. The real time information may be made available to parents as well as school authorities.
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is widely deployed by private and a few state governments. The ambulances are fitted with tracking systems and dispatch to the nearest call is made. Telemedicine support can be provided in the ambulance e.g. Initial heart readings, ECG etc and sending the data to hospital utilizing the travel time and saving the life of patient.
6. Accidents and theft prevention of commercial vehicles: Using telematics units in vehicles, information such as location, speeding, rash driving can be computed. If a vehicle is stolen, the same can be recovered by the finding the vehicle on the map.
7. Automatic Road tolling: Using RFID tags and related communication channels via telematics box on vehicles, automated road toll collection can be enabled.
8. Emergency Response system against major natural happenings: Once telematics units are fitted on a reasonable number of vehicles, it can be deduced which roads are open and which are closed based on GPS tracks in emergency situations. This is extensively used in Japan during earthquakes/ tsunamis.
9. Pay as you drive insurance: Using telematics units, User Based Insurance (UBI) can be deduced, i.e. if someone drives smaller distances and in a safe manner, insurance premium may be reduced compared to someone who drives a lot or drives in risky manner. The data from vehicle will be made available via telematics units.
10. In Car Infotainment: Touch screen systems available in car can be connected to high speed internet via telematics units for entertainment. Additional information such as traffic, live data feeds, parking etc. can be sent to the car on these connected screens.
11. Electronic parking assistance & payments: Using telematics units, parking can be monitored at respective places and this information can be made available on phones/
connected cars. It is popular in congested cities such as New York, Tokyo.
12. Tracking of moveable assets like DG sets: Gensets / DG sets can be tracked and their fuel consumption can be calculated using telematics units. These DG sets may be deployed in far off places for construction etc. any centralized monitoring is possible.
13. Vehicle to Vehicle & Vehicle to infrastructure: Vehicles can share their details such as speed, acceleration, and many other information pieces to other vehicles. This will help in automated driverless vehicles or in simpler situation like informing another vehicle about raining down the road, nearby obstacles, congestion etc.
IV.B.4
Approach Forward:M2M adoption in vehicles is fast growing. Many countries have made telemetric mandates i.e. Brazil- Contran 245, EU- eCall (2015), Russia- ERA-GLONASS, Germany- LKW-Maut Toll Collect, France- HGV Eco-tax, US- electronic onboard recorder (EOBR)(2015). In India mandates are there from government to install GPS/ GRPS device in all public transport with video camera and panic button with connectivity to police stations. Further mandate for installation of RFID tags on the medium and heavy motor vehicles for toll collection, M2M devices for automatic detection of valid Pollution Certificate for fuelling will give a boost to M2M telemetry sector. Domestic manufacturing ecosystem can get impetus through this.
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