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iRAD Software Application – Training Manual

RBG Labs, IIT Madras

NICSI had multiple knowledge transfer sessions and took the source codes of

application developed at IITM by January of 2020. This application was to be used for
alignment at the time of orientation of the States. Parallelly, NICSI was to develop the

detailed application as per the architecture and integrate existing applications used by
stakeholder Departments, deployment of servers and manpower in districts, and

continue to work on improvements based on customer feedback.

1.2 Development of iRAD

The Integrated Road Accident Database (iRAD) was designed (Appendix 1) by

IIT Madras and when fully implemented will be India’s first National road accident

database integrating the important stakeholder Departments of Police, Health,
Transport and Highways. This creates an ecosystem for quality accident investigation

and primary data collection by the domain experts of each of the stakeholder
Departments in the State.

The iRAD development is divided into three critical activities. The first activity

is to have a comprehensive software development. Second is to build robust IT
infrastructure by procuring hardware for deploying the iRAD system pan-India. Lastly

and most importantly, convince and train the stakeholders pan-India to adopt a

data-driven system approach to road safety.

1.3 Software Development

iRAD software, as designed by IIT Madras has three critical parts (Figure 1)
which are as follows:

1. A field application to record the GIS information of the accident, collect/

support first responder observation of the accident scene. Collect necessary
evidence of the accident scene by recording photos, videos and audio

recording, and leverage information collection by the public (citizens) from

the accident scene. This field application should be platform agonistic or
available at least in Android, iOS and Windows mobile platforms.

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