Four-Day Exhibit Highlights Live Use Cases in Mobility, Tourism, and Green Corridors

Roundtable Emphasizes Data Activation and Incentive Frameworks for Value Contributors

Sangam Initiative Launches Innovation Sandbox for AI-Driven Insights

DoT and MoHUA Form Joint Working Group to Advance Urban Mobility

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) recently showcased its groundbreaking Digital Twin with AI-Driven Insights Initiative at the India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2025. This demonstration highlighted how the integration of telecom, computation, and sensing technologies can revolutionize infrastructure planning and management in India. The initiative empowers planners to gain clear visibility into current conditions, simulate future scenarios, and shape optimal outcomes, allowing for confident evaluations of utility and impact before finalizing plans.

Roundtable Chief Guest and Panelists

From Left to Right: Shri Sagar Mathur, Bharti Airtel; Shri Rahul Joshi, RJIL; Shri Asit Kadayan, DDG (Digital Twin Unit), DoT; Shri R. N. Palai, Member (Technology) DoT; Shri Sunil Bajpai (former Additional Member, Railway Board; ex-Principal Advisor, TRAI); Shri S. T. Abbas, Sr. DDG (TEC); Dr. Amit Kumar Jain, DMRC; Dr. Simone Redana, Nokia, Germany; Dr. Jaijit Bhattacharya, C-DEP.

Digital Twin Exhibit Attracts Strong Engagement

The DoT’s Digital Twin exhibit, featured throughout the four-day IMC 2025 event, drew significant interest from policymakers, planners, AI/ML experts, and innovators. Developed in partnership with leading telecom operators and OEMs including RJIL, Bharti Airtel, and Nokia, the exhibit presented three key use cases:

• Urban Mobility Insights from Telecom Data: Live demonstrations showed how telecom mobility data provides high-quality, near real-time origination-destination (OD) insights for urban transport planning. Analyses of corridors like Vasant Kunj and Central Vista in New Delhi uncovered authentic commute patterns and dwelling hotspots, enabling metro and transport agencies to better understand travel behaviors, assess station catchment areas, and plan investments with precision and confidence.
• Tourism Insights from Mobility Data: Using Ayodhya as a case study, the exhibit leveraged telecom-derived mobility statistics to generate hourly and daily insights on tourist flows, travel modes, and stay preferences. These insights revealed movement patterns across various transport modes—whether direct visits to pilgrimage sites or part of broader tourism circuits—helping planners enhance tourism infrastructure and services at destinations and along connecting corridors.
• Connected Traffic and Green Corridor Coordination: In collaboration with a telecom OEM partner, this demonstration illustrated how edge computing and computer vision analytics enable telecom networks to sense, compute, and act for coordinated traffic management. It showcased the dynamic creation of green corridors for priority vehicles, minimizing delays while reducing disruptions to regular traffic, and highlighting the potential of telecom-powered systems for real-time, intelligent coordination.

These demonstrations captured the essence of DoT’s Sangam Digital Twin Initiative: unlocking planning intelligence by activating existing data at the source in a privacy-preserving, AI-enabled way. By leveraging telecom’s ubiquity, the initiative supports continuous, data-driven foresight, starting with the transport sector to de-risk major infrastructure projects.

Shri Tarun Kapoor, Advisor to the Prime Minister, along with Dr. Neeraj Mittal, Secretary (Telecom), interacts with the DoT team at IMC 2025 while exploring live demonstrations of the Mobility Digital Twin.

Roundtable on “Planning That Thinks Ahead”

DoT hosted a high-level roundtable titled “Planning That Thinks Ahead” to discuss the economics of clarity in public infrastructure. Chaired by Shri R. N. Palai, Member (Technology), Digital Communications Commission, and graced by Shri S. T. Abbas, Sr. DDG (TEC), the session was moderated by Shri Sunil Bajpai (former Additional Member, Railway Board; ex-Principal Advisor, TRAI).

Panelists included Dr. Simone Redana (Nokia, Germany), Dr. Jaijit Bhattacharya (C-DEP), Dr. Amit Kumar Jain (DMRC), Mr. Rahul Joshi (RJIL), Mr. Sagar Mathur (Bharti Airtel), and Mr. Asit Kadayan (DoT).

Key discussions emphasized that the necessary technology and data are already available—the focus must now shift to action. Panelists highlighted the immense potential of telecom infrastructure and mobility insights to enhance evidence-based, agile, and continuous planning. Three key priorities emerged: <!–