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Innovation and Digital Transformation for a Sustainable World

proved most IT companies can function successfully from auxiliary code to their apps to improve their Corporate Social
home and boost economic growth. India, a startup Responsibility (CSR) efforts. This will greatly increase the
powerhouse, has a strong IT sector built on ICT, industry, amount and variety of data samples for our model.
and infrastructure. Equitable digital connectivity will 7) NTV applications can be installed in vehicles, especially
provide Delhi and Dimapur employees an equal chance [31]. public service vehicles that run on long routes from one state
to another, like buses, allowing them to act as participants in
7.2. LIMITATIONS OF THE PROPOSED MODEL carrying out mobile crowd-sensing tasks [36].
1) The machine learning model of this study lacks 8) It is crucial to implement security measures and regularly
information on the BTS to which the mobile user was monitor the data collected to ensure the authenticity of the
connected, also highlighted in the study by Alimpertis, E. system is not compromised [36] through fake sensing attacks.
[17]. 9) After government clearance, certification, and testing,
2) Public crowdsourcing systems to collect signal data Android and iOS platforms may grant unique rights to the
primarily focus on prominent transit routes, hence excluding mobile app NTV like accessing the phone's state without user
communities situated beyond these regions [32], [33]. authorization, enabling automatic data collection.
3) In addition to antenna design, device materials can affect
radio signal absorption in mobile phones. Receiver circuitry 8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
noise, nonlinearity, and frequency band support affect We would like to express gratitude to our employer
performance. M.-R. Fida and others [12] and T. K. Sarkar Department of Telecommunications for approving our
[28] found that user mobility, device orientation, humidity, research work for developing the tool and collecting the data
and temperature affect signal variation. from volunteers. Further, our heartfelt thanks to all the
4) External factors that could affect mobile internet QoS volunteers who have installed our NTV app displaying full
must be carefully examined like data from big crowds in trust. We also thank ISRO for providing us with terrain data
limited locations like sports events, concerts, and street of millions of locations. We express profound appreciation
protests is useful, can be added to machine learning to our families for their steadfast support and appreciation of
algorithms to improve signal strength forecasts [20]. our aspirations and inclinations. Above all, thanks to the
5) For network-based services, QoS depends on throughput, almighty for providing us with all privileges, and for
delay, packet loss, and error rate rather than just RSRP. becoming what we are today.
Numerous other network factors affect service quality. High
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