TCS Launches AI Centre For Real-Time Monitoring Of Exams

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has set up an Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven command centre for real-time monitoring of more than 6,000 entrance examination centres and 8 lakh candidates to check exam related malpractices.

The IT services firm uses the data generated after exams to detect malpractices on a real-time basis and find patterns such as a centre’s readiness to conduct an exam or to detect anomalies in answers by candidates, said Venguswamy Ramaswamy, Global head, TCS iON, a strategic unit of TCS.

TCS iON helps education boards and recruitment bodies conduct large scale and high stakes examinations such as the Railways, Institute of Banking Personnel Selection, and entrance tests for IIMs, IITs and AIIMS through its digital zones.

“Right from the time the candidate enters and puts in biometrics, to the exam time itself, every exam provides us with data. Even recently, the news of the NEET malpractices in Chennai, where one candidate appears and the test is written by someone else…Incidents of this nature can be avoided with image processing algorithms, which will change the game,” said Mr Ramaswamy.

TCS iON has 12 command centres, of which two are now “intelligent command centres. The other 10 centres will be turned into “intelligent command centre” with an investment of more than Rs 5 crore per centre, the Economic Times reported.