The National Highways Authorities of India (NHAI) has deployed artificial intelligence (AI) based Face Recognition System to monitor attendance of the field staff at different project locations. This move has been undertaken by the NHAI as a step to increase transparency and accountability. 

The AI will also have the feature of real-time location tracking of personnel at project sites including key personnel, engineers and consultants. Further, the NHAI's system which is cloud-enabled as well as powered by the data analytics platform - Data Lake which will enable the system to tag each personnel with unique identification and monitoring which will help check unauthorised absenteeism as well as improve the quality of construction and project management. 

This system will enable employees to log on using their mobile phones via an app and will capture employee details, date, time and location of the employees when they log in for the day and will prevent Impersonation of employees/ consultants/ engineers.