Industrial Automation Magazine India

E-NEXCO INDIA launches E-NEXCO Eye for road network survey

Published on : Monday 25-04-2022

E-NEXCO Eye is the joint product, survey devices of which are made using Japans state-of-the-art technologies and then assembled in India.

New Delhi, April 2022 – E-NEXCO INDIA Pvt Ltd (ENI), has launched road network survey business utilising owned specific vehicle, viz., the E-NEXCO Eye for the Indian markets to  measure road surface conditions safely, quickly and accurately.

ENI was established in November 2019 as the Indian subsidiary of East Nippon Expressway Company Ltd (NEXCO EAST), which is a Japanese government owned company engaging in development, management, operation and maintenance of expressways in eastern part of Japan, and is now operating 4,000km Expressway network and 4million vehicles are using on the network every day.

"In order to provide safe and comfortable driving circumstances on roads for the users of our customers, the most important thing is to keep its pavement condition in a desirable service level. We have launched E-NEXCO Eye, which measures pavement conditions such as cracks, rutting and international roughness index (IRI) with the speed at any speed up to 100km per hour at night. E-NEXCO Eye is an output of the collaboration activities with India and NEXCO EAST," Mr Tetsuo Miyairi, President, ENI & Director General of NEXCOEAST.

E-NEXCO Eye is the joint product, survey devices of which are made using Japan's state-of-the-art technologies and then assembled in India. The inauguration ceremony was conducted on 21st April, 2022, at the Toll Plaza of Delhi Agra Toll Road owned by Cube Highways, which helped the development and introduction of E-NEXCO Eye.

"It took 5 years since I first visited Japan and Mr Miyairi and other NEXCO members showed us Japan's expressways around. We are so much impressed by the good expressways that is very well maintained, and I thought we want this machine with high technologies that has been used in Japan to improve the quality of road and achieve the efficient maintenance of the road surface in India", Dr Reddy, CEO of Cube Highways and Transportation Assets Advisors Pvt Ltd celebrated the launch of E-NEXCO Eye.

"I am quite confident that E-NEXCO Eye will make significant changes to the road maintenance procedure. I strongly believe, as a result, that E-NEXCO Eye will contribute to upgrade the quality of life, economy, and society in India,” said Mr Miyairi, emphasising the goal and dreams of ENI.