Hazaar Khwaishein - A million thoughts: October 2008

THAT WAS MY IDEA

well well well, what a day that was, 20th october 2008, when my wife was in the kitchen packing my lunch box and I was reading the news paper. As I turned to page #3 in MailToday, I saw this headline that really caught my eye (CAR THAT ENSURES YOU ONLY FACE THE GO SIGNAL).

Way back in May 2006 (when I used to work for Beehive Systems, Noida), Me, Nitin and Neha were sitting in a Mall nearby waiting for the movie to start when this thought came to my mind. I got so excited that I took a paper napkin and started drawing the architecture of the system that I named "Always Mobile".

The idea was to keep a vehicle mobile and avoid waiting at the traffic signal just by calculating the speed at which the vehicle should be moving. I thought this is a brilliant idea and decided to send it to someone who can implement it. I searched Google for Traffic Management System and found out that Siemens make these systems worldwide. As it was a very well known company, I decided to send to to Siemens.

I Googled for sometime to find the right person and got Lothar Belger's email address. Quickly made a document with some description and an image and sent it to him crossing my fingers and hoping to get a reply (Here is my original document).

I got the reply (:-), and Lothar said that he has forwarded the request to the concerned department and they will analyze it and get back to me with details. But here my luck got stuck !! and this is what I got...

Dear Mr. Abhimanyu Sirohi,

thank you for your email.

Our expert have reviewed your idea and do not see a need to share further details at this point in time.