Microsoft delegates visit Road Construction Department Control and Command Centre

Road Construction Department Control and Command Centre and Rodic consultants welcomed the Microsoft team delegates PK Jain, Amit Das and Anand. Rodic Consultants operating as a project management unit at RCD Control and Command Centre is responsible for managing and guiding 13,000 kilometres of road in real time using web and mobile applications designed, built and implemented by them.

The delegates were briefed on the concept of performance-based road maintenance contract (OPRMC-Bihar) by the RCD and RODIC civil service team and how this concept also includes standard operating procedures and it deviates from traditional road maintenance and also does not overlook the benefits it offers to citizens and departments.

Rodic’s aim is to transform Bihar’s OPRMC into a people- and technology-driven road maintenance ecosystem. The delegates were briefly elucidated with the RCD’s Road Maintenance application on how the engineers of the department will discover the defects on the road and how the mobile app will help in reporting with geotagged photos and videos of the particular place. The communication flow of single source truth data from engineers to contractor, executive engineer, and command and control centre was also illustrated.

The RCD control and command centre demonstrated how they are using the web-based application to monitor and view the defects reported from Bihar’s 44 divisions. Business intelligence dashboards which were derived from data, i.e. (analytics and advisory) was also illustrated by the key experts of Rodic Consultants. This intelligence dashboards are highly equipped which will report and tackle all the key data insights like division performance, engineer performance, contractors closing on defects, state wide defect analysis, Inspection trend analysis, and time trend on defect closing whether within or beyond response time.