Webtra a Chennai based firm has come out with an effective solution in a bid to fight crime.
These include - before every pick up, the employee receives an sms about the cab number and the driver's name. After getting in, every successive member sends an ok message.
An absence of such confirmation at any scheduled point, automatically triggers a series of crisis alerts in just five minutes.
This prompts a range of people to act in succession from the transport desk, the top management, and even the police.
Thus it ensures that anything that is not routine or unusual - from a vehicle breakdown, a deviation or a kidnap is detected even without any frantic attempt by passengers to inform.
''When someone is in trouble he or she cannot communicate. The absence of communication becomes the alert in our system,'' said V M Sankaran Nampoothir, Adviser, Lattice Bridge Infotech.
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