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The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) in India is developing the Sangam Digital Twin initiative, a digital platform aimed at enabling cross-sector data flows..
The initiative aims to break data silos, allowing telecom companies, tech giants, and startups to share data, such as traffic movement, for collaborative planning and optimization..
The Sangam Digital Twin initiative, combining the capabilities of 5G, internet of things, artificial intelligence and augmented/virtual reality, would be a metaverse of real-world assets created as a simulation environment, a top official at the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) said..
If the city were to generate intelligence on how much traffic has been diverted and what other areas need to be decongested for cutting travel time, telecom companies or tech giants like Google can generate this data on a real-time basis, another top DoT official leading the project told ET..
Therefore, to demonstrate the usefulness of the digital twin in the event management space, at the PoC stage of Sangam, a major city of India will be selected to test what if scenarios such as how much traffic needs to be diverted if X roads are blocked for two hours.. Through real-time simulation of city roads, traffic movement, visitor mobility and other nuances, the project will demonstrate how an event management company can best plan a large-scale event while reducing costs, improving returns on investment and even promote tourism in the city...
