GPS technology makes food & civil supplies distribution more efficient

GPS technology makes food & civil supplies distribution more efficient: MapmyIndia implements vehicle tracking & management solutions Removes inefficiencies in Public Distribution System of Food & Civil Supplies Department, Moradabad through interactive management of vehicle movement

New Delhi, June 2010: MapmyIndia, India’s leader in maps and GPS navigation solutions, is helping the Food & Civil Supplies Department, Moradabad (FCSDM) make their Public Distribution System (PDS) more efficient through the use of sophisticated GPS and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology. MapmyIndia is deploying a special interactive system through which FCSDM would be able to track their food and commodities distribution vehicles in real-time, thus cutting down inefficiencies in the food distribution channel. The system will help FCSDM keep a check on the distribution of food and commodities meant for the poor, without any diversion and pilferage. The project is being run in Aonla, Barielly, Moradabad, JP Nagar, Rampur and Bijnore districts of Uttar Pradesh. In order to ensure that the project is a success and to remove any inefficiency in the system, MapmyIndia undertook the following rigorous steps:

1. Mapping of the Fair Price Shops (FPS), the base godown and commodity specific routes the trucks would take. MapmyIndia’s field surveyors did a manual road survey to identify road ends, unpaved roads etc. This data was plotted on a digital vector map and routes charted out

2. A special robust GPS tracking device was installed in the trucks which would help the system keep a complete check on the whereabouts of the truck including over speeding/accidents etc

3. Customization of MapmyIndia’s highly accurate GIS VT1 Vehicle Tracking System to implement the following:

• Route deviations, undue stoppages, abnormal delays, over speeding in standard routes which were to be plotted using MMI’s Field surveyors

• Live tracking of all the trucks grouped according to commodities being carried and commodity specific routes

• SMS intimation to local FPS Owners when a truck left from a godown and when it when it entered a FPS

• SMS intimation to FPS Smartcard Subscribers when a truck was about to reach a FPS

• Setting of control rooms (one for each district) and operators for monitoring/handling day-to-day operations/incidents and MIS Reporting

• Completely managing the end-to-end solution starting from road survey, mapping, tracking, reporting, enhancements, management

According to Rakesh Verma, MD, MapmyIndia: “This is a prestigious project for the MapmyIndia team and at the same time it also recognizes MapmyIndia’s capabilities as a leader and pioneer in the GPS, digital mapping and Location Based Services (LBS) applications space. Our aim is to provide a complete and robust end-to-end managed solution to tackle some of the most primary issues that many public distribution systems departments face throughout India.”

MapmyIndia Vehicle Tracking Solution press release