Two of India’s most populated cities, Mumbai and Delhi, come to a standstill during the monsoon as water logged areas put a stop to traffic and drowning railroad tracks halt connectivity. But now, drones can help unplug these bottlenecks before they result in traffic jams and backed up emergency services.
Learning from past experiences, Western Railways has already started to use drones to monitor flood prone areas of the train tracks in and around Mumbai.
The Delhi High Court as also suggested that the police use drones to track traffic in water logged areas while setting up rainwater harvesting systems to solve Delhi’s water scarcity at the same time.