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DoT Showcases Telecom-Powered Mobility Digital Twin for Smarter Transport Planning

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) showcased its Sangam Digital Twin with artificial intelligence (AI)-Driven Insights Initiative at India Mobile Congress 2025, highlighting how telecom, computation, and sensing convergence can transform infrastructure planning. Developed in collaboration with major telecom operators and OEMs, including RJIL, Bharti Airtel, and Nokia, the initiative demonstrated practical applications in urban mobility, tourism, and connected traffic management. By analysing telecom-derived mobility data, planners gained real-time insights into commute patterns, tourist flows, and traffic coordination, enabling evidence-based infrastructure investment and reducing project risks. The Digital Twin platform also emphasises privacy-preserving, AI-enabled foresight, marking a leap toward data-driven decision-making in public infrastructure.
DoT further hosted a Roundtable on ‘Planning That Thinks Ahead’, engaging policymakers, telecom experts, and technology leaders to discuss the economics of clarity in infrastructure planning. Key priorities identified included incentivising high-quality data contribution, creating policy certainty to integrate Digital Twin tools into national planning frameworks, and enabling cross-sector innovation through AI and analytics. As part of the Sangam Initiative, DoT is establishing a Regulatory-cum-Innovation Sandbox with industry, academia, and transport agencies to co-develop AI models and toolkits, ensuring interoperable and secure solutions. The IMC 2025 showcase marks a decisive step toward institutionalising telecom-powered Digital Twins as a core mechanism for agile, evidence-based, and citizen-centric infrastructure planning in India.

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