India Human Efficiency Tracking System sanitation worker surveillance

The Human Efficiency Tracking System (HETS) is used to monitor sanitation workers in the Indian city of Chandigarh and six other municipalities in India. 

Officials at the Command and Control Center of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (CMC) say the watches, which are equipped with GPS trackers, a microphone, a SIM embedded for calling workers, and a camera, enable them to validate proof of attendance, weed out fake, duplicate and false workers, and improve operational efficiencies.

Workers are forced to wear watches equipped with the system so that their movements can be monitored in real-time and pay deducted if they depart from algorithmically pre-determined set work schedules or routes.