The DoT invites interested parties to pre-register before March 15, 2024 and actively participate in Sangam’s outreach programs.
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has launched the ‘Sangam: Digital Twin’ initiative, inviting expressions of interest (EoI) from industry leaders, startups, MSMEs, academia, innovators, and forward-thinkers. This initiative aims to leverage Digital Twin technology, which creates virtual replicas of physical assets for real-time monitoring, simulation, and analysis. This technology enables experimental iterations and feedback loops to adapt to changes for optimal outcomes.
‘Sangam: Digital Twin’ is structured as a proof of concept (PoC) distributed in two stages to be conducted in a major Indian city. The first stage is exploratory, focusing on clarity of horizon and creative exploration to unleash potential. The second stage involves practical demonstration of specific use cases, generating a future blueprint that may serve as a roadmap for scaling and replicating successful strategies in future infrastructure projects through collaboration.
Sangam aims to transform innovative ideas into tangible solutions, bridging the gap between conceptualization and realisation, and ultimately paving the way for groundbreaking infrastructure advancements. It champions a holistic approach to innovation, urging stakeholders to transcend traditional boundaries and harness unified data and collective intelligence.
The DoT invites interested parties to pre-register and actively participate in Sangam’s outreach programs, explore, create, and commit to transforming the future of infrastructure planning and design. The platform offers a blog for pre-registered participants to connect, share insights, and engage in meaningful discussions. The deadline for submission of the EoI response is March 15, 2024.
This initiative is set against the backdrop of the past decade’s breakthroughs in communication, computation, and sensing in the era of the ‘techade,’ striving for the vision of India in 2047. It symbolises a collaborative leap towards reshaping infrastructure planning and design, combining the prowess of 5G, IoT, AI, AR/VR, AI-native 6G, Digital Twin, and next-gen computational technologies with the collective intelligence of public entities, infrastructure planners, tech giants, startups, and academia.
Supported by India’s geospatial leapfrog, Sangam positions India as a leader in digital infrastructure and innovation, echoing global movements towards smart infrastructure. It aims to demonstrate practical implementation of innovative infrastructure planning solutions, develop a model framework for facilitating collaboration, and provide a future blueprint for scaling and replicating successful strategies.
