The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has launched the Artificial Intelligence and Facial Recognition powered Solution for Telecom SIM Subscriber Verification (ASTR) tool.
It aims to detect and block fraudulent mobile connections.
The ASTR project was developed by the DoT's unit in Haryana between April 2021 and July 2021.
It is capable of detecting all SIMs against a suspected face in less than 10 seconds from a database of 1 crore images.