India's Road Ministry Rolls Out 1 Centralized Highway Lighting System for Real-Time Monitoring
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Updated · The New Indian Express · Jun 8
India's Road Ministry Rolls Out 1 Centralized Highway Lighting System for Real-Time Monitoring
2 articles · Updated · The New Indian Express · Jun 8
Summary
MoRTH has issued a standard operating procedure and implementation framework for a cloud-based centralized control and monitoring system covering highway lighting on stretches managed by the ministry, NHAI and NHIDCL.
The platform is designed to improve safety, maintenance and energy efficiency through real-time monitoring, automatic switching, early fault detection, energy-use verification and performance analytics.
Pilot deployments in Varanasi and Hyderabad have already been completed, and officials have been directed to apply the SOP to existing, under-construction and future highway projects.
Dashboards will show working and non-working lights across states, districts and corridors, while user feedback will be routed to project authorities under a three-tier escalation mechanism.
The move creates a unified monitoring framework for lighting assets that are installed only at selected highway points such as toll plazas, interchanges, flyovers and underpasses under IRC guidelines.