City's first smart bus stop

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: The first Smart bus stop (Electronics City Airport Bus Terminus) was inaugurated by Satyavathi G, Managing Director of the Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) and Dr M Abdulla Saleem, Special Commissioner of Police (Traffic) on Monday in the city.

A bus was also flagged off from the bus stop. The smart bus stop has a vending machine for snacks and sanitary napkins, charging points for phones and laptops, and smart dustbins that send alerts when it is 70 per cent full.

It also has displays for real-time information about bus timings, one that shows the route map. To ensure the safety of all, the bus stop is installed with two CCTV cameras and a two-way SOS system. Besides being "smart", the bus stop is also "green"— a smart garden is set up.