Going for a film or an interview and need to safely preserve your purse or cameras for few hours at some place? Well, Delhi Metro commuters can do this now by renting digital lockers at 50 of its stations by way of a brand new cellular app launched on Wednesday.
The app — ‘Momentum 2.0’ — additionally permits commuters to do on-line buying from listed e-commerce firms by way of ‘digital shops’ situated at 20 metro stations, ship a courier through a wise field (digi-locker) and purchase QR code-based tickets. Delhi Metro is the primary mass speedy transit system in the nation to introduce such services for commuters, officers mentioned.Â
The cellular software seeks to boost expertise of metro riders past travelling. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) plans to broaden the ‘digital shops’ and ‘digi-lockers’ services to majority of its stations by June 2024.
Delhi Metro’s community span 393 kilometres with 288 stations, together with the Noida-Greater Noida hall and the Rapid Metro in Gurugram.
The app was formally launched by DMRC’s Managing Director, Vikas Kumar at the Shivaji Stadium metro station.
PTI in February 2022 had reported on this mission when it was in its infancy stage and the DMRC had employed a consulting agency to work on the plan.
Using ‘Momentum 2.0’, which will be downloaded on each Android and iOS telephones, a commuter can lease a ‘sensible field’ (digi-locker) at any of the 50 stations on Lines 1-7 and the Airport Line, on the go.
These stations embody, Rajiv Chowk, Millennium City Centre Gurugram, Dwarka Sector 10, Supreme Court, Pul Bangash, Netaji Subhash Place, Shaheed Sthal (New Bus Adda), Dilshad Garden, Noida City Centre, Anand Vihar, Tughlakabad, Sarita Vihar, Moolchand and IP Extension.
“Using this app, a person can rent a locker at any of these stations, from a minimum of one hour and up to six hours. Penal amount will be charged if the time limit exceeds beyond the period for which the digi-locker has been rented,” Anurag Bajpai, founding father of AutoPe Payment Solution, advised PTI.
The new app, a joint initiative of Delhi Metro and AutoPe Payment Solutions, seeks to supply seamless entry to metro rides whereas making the commute time rely.
“Think of these digi-lockers akin to the ‘cloak room’ facility provide at stations of the Indian Railways, but the metro facility is driven by an app powered by a cutting-edge digital platform, which enhances the experience of riders while allowing them an option to do more than travel all while on the go,” a senior official of the DMRC advised PTI.
These ‘sensible packing containers’ have been put in in a grid format and every station has a set of 83-90 digital lockers, with a console at the centre.
“For renting a digi-locker, a user will have to go to the interface of the app, which shows the option of ‘rent-a-locker’, and once it is pressed, it asks the user to select a metro station, date, time, and duration of renting in number of hours, and locker size – small (Rs. 20 per hour), medium (Rs. 30 per hour) or large (Rs. 40 per hour), and the available time slots,” Bajpai mentioned.
After cost, a PIN quantity can be generated which can be displayed on the app interface, and which can be legitimate for each drop and pick-up of a package deal.
For dropping a package deal, a person must select the ‘drop package deal’ tab from the house web page of the console, after which after coming into the authorised PIN, the digi-locker will open mechanically, with none guide intervention, Bajpai mentioned.
There is not any bodily lock or key in this technique, it’s all a digital platform-driven system, he mentioned.
For making on-line buy from a ‘digital retailer’, a person must scan a QR code displayed on a wall of the arrange at a metro station, after which it’s going to ask for the station at which the supply is to be made.
“After scanning the code, the item on sale will be displayed, and then payment can be done and the destination station needs to be mentioned where the item will be delivered. It will be kept in a digi-locker from which it can be picked up by the buyer later,” one other senior official of the AutoPe Payment Solutions mentioned.
For utilizing the courier service, a person can select the service from the app, and point out the deal with the place a courier must be despatched after which select the station the place it’s being deposited, Bajpai mentioned.
The courier will then by picked by the companion courier company, so a person will not need to go to a publish workplace or a courier company, and the package deal can be delivered at its vacation spot, he mentioned, including, “the future plan is to have a hyperlocal courier delivery, wherein a courier can be picked up by the recipient from a metro station only on the same day when it is delivered”.
The app additionally affords possibility to purchase QR code-based tickets for all metro strains, together with the Airport Line, eliminating the necessity of a number of apps in flip enhancing person expertise, the DMRC mentioned.
In addition, Delhi Metro sensible card’s recharging in addition to transaction particulars will also be seen in the app. There can be an possibility for commuters to offer standing directions in the app for ‘auto top-up’ in case the steadiness falls under a minimal outlined worth, it mentioned.
Users will even be capable to pay utility payments equivalent to electrical energy payments, fuel payments, cellular payments, DTH payments, FASTag cost, and many others simply, the DMRC added.
At a metro station, the app additionally offers station-related info, together with particulars of location of services, gates, lifts, escalators, platforms and first and final practice timings. As the time of arrival is predicated on the vacation spot, a motorbike or cab will be made able to obtain a passenger at the precise time in the designated space, officers mentioned.
Food shops or ATMs will also be situated with the app. Also, it affords info on outlets, shops, kiosks, and ATMs obtainable at metro stations, they mentioned.
