Development
In this video link, developers Jigar Savla and Viraj Motivaras describe the different components and their functions within the toolkit:
Quicktime Phase 1 prototype 
phase#1 konark is a basic gps-gsm toolkit that is self-produced and uses open- source software. Its first objective is to connect a vehicle using gps and gsm to a remote server – thereafter possibilities emerge through a potential range of onboard sensors and through the web and cellular mobiles linking the vehicle to the global information highway.
The basic toolkit may retrofitted onto a vehicle so changing the nature of its interaction with potential users and with the environment of chaotic roadways typical of the megacities like Mumbai.
konark is a street-level autonomous eye carried onbroad the moving vehicle. Its basic architecture is a first step to the construction of an information loop for the vehicle to connect the different environments that need to come together to model an integrated ecology of mobility: the territorial, the energy and the virtual environments.
Mobility requires 3 things:
energy, information, and territory.
In themselves each is modeled as self-renewing loops that interconnect and overlap with each other.
Contemporary megacities like Mumbai, Lagos and Sao Paulo exponentially multiply and accelerate the processes that put unconnected social actors together; the megacity is the real world mirror of the virtual world’s Moore’s Law whereby computer processing power and scale of information production may double with each year. The megacity is based on the way its inhabitants can interact, the fluidity of communication and movement - more so than its modern physical hardware or its enduring social structures.
At the heart of it is human mobility.
The ecology of mobility can not be reduced simply to energy equations or the carbon footprint of physical mobility. New social formations require an ecology of mobility with multiple dimensions.
konark is a development process that converges several forms of cellular technology with dense urban mobility in emerging economies: the gps [global positioning system], the gsm cellular phone networks and the internet. The project is about human density and mobility.
konark draws its name from the temple to Surya, the sun god at Konark in Orissa, India; the 13th century temple now mired and sinking under its weight, still shows the 24 wheels of the sungod's chariot. Today the phenomena of mass mobility places as heavy a burden on the earth and on society as the polluted log-jammed arteries of our cities testify.
konark
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