Zurich/Lucknow – RTDT Laboratories has agreed with the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh to use its Aerosense technology to test the new Ganga Expressway. The road quality is assessed on 594 kilometers.
RTDT Laboratories AG, which specializes in the development of customized IT system software, has signed a commercial agreement with the government of Uttar Pradesh to use its Aerosense technology in a project to assess road quality on the Ganga Expressway, according to a statement. This newly built route is India's second-largest highway with a total length of 594 kilometers. The agreement was signed between the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Manoj Kumar Singh, and the co-founder of RTDT, Aris Mukherjee, at the government headquarters in Lucknow. It marks the beginning of a possible large-scale use of Aerosense in infrastructure projects in this federal state, according to the press release from the company, which was founded in 2002 as a spin-off of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH). In Uttar Pradesh, a joint pilot project is being conducted to assess the road quality and ride comfort on the Ganga Expressway. Originally developed for wind turbine blades, the areas of application for Aerosense technology are now wide-ranging and include areas such as aerospace, defense, civil infrastructure and maritime sectors as well as mobility, according to a report on startupticker.ch. "This is a great opportunity for us. India is a very large market with a rapidly growing infrastructure, and we see great potential for the use of our technology in various application areas in the future," Aris Mukherjee is quoted as saying in the report. RTDT hopes to "expand into many other Indian states, especially in the wind energy sector, which remains our main focus". ce/gba