IIT Madras alliances with Renault Nissan Technology, RNTBCI

IIT Madras has collaborated with Renault Nissan Technology and Business Centre India Pvt Ltd. (RNTBCI) to reduce road accidents fatalities in Chennai and neighbouring districts through two projects.

In line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has collaborated with Renault Nissan Technology and Business Centre India Pvt Ltd (RNTBCI) to reduce road accidents fatalities in Chennai and neighbouring districts through two projects.

The first project is to focus on improving public safety with a particular focus on reducing fatal accidents involving public transit buses through state-of-the-art sensors and data collection techniques.

Prof V Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras, said, “This initiative will surely reap benefits in terms of road safety and other technological interventions for the transportation sector at large. This project will lead to generate data which will help to enhance road safety. The findings from this project will pave way for new technologies that will further enhance entrepreneurship ideas.”

A year-long hackathon named ‘Hackcidents’ will be conducted and the best ideas on Road Safety and Accident Prevention will be implemented. Centre For Innovation, a voluntary student body at IIT Madras, will conduct the hackathon.

IIT Madras' lab to develop solutions for improving road safety

The Connected Intelligent Urban Transportation lab at IIT Madras will develop innovative, technology and data-driven solutions to improve road safety. 

RNTBCI has contributed to IIT Madras as part of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The MoU for the same was signed today, April 2, 2022, by Prof Mahesh Panchagnula, Dean (Alumni and Corporate Relations), IIT Madras and Mr Debashis Neogi, Managing Director, Renault Nissan Technology and Business Centre India Pvt Ltd (RNTBCI) in the presence of Mr Natarajasundaram Balasubramanian, Vice president, RNTBCI.

Kapil Saratkar, IPS, Additional Commissioner of Police, Chennai City Traffic Police, said, “Around 4,500 traffic police are deployed by Tamil Nadu Police to manage the traffic in the city. However, there is a manpower shortage and these policemen have to face several difficulties in managing the traffic in the city. The Police Department requests the students of IIT Madras to provide simple and innovative solutions to address the problems faced by the department in managing the traffic in the city."

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