{"id":1010022,"date":"2026-05-26T09:24:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010022"},"modified":"2026-05-26T09:37:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:07:50","slug":"the-tech-trap-inside-indias-ambitious-6000-km-smart-border-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/26\/the-tech-trap-inside-indias-ambitious-6000-km-smart-border-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The tech trap: Inside India\u2019s ambitious 6,000-km smart border project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smart borders promise perfect visibility. The problem is that visibility and controllability are not the same thing. India\u2019s new \u201cSmart Border\u201d project put a global belief: that sensors, software, and AI can compensate for geography, manpower, and uncertainty. The ambition behind the initiative, officially announced by Union Home Minister Amit Shah at the Border Security Force (BSF) Rustamji Memorial Lecture, is sweeping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart borders promise perfect visibility. The problem is that visibility and controllability are not the same thing. India\u2019s new \u201cSmart Border\u201d project put a global belief: that sensors, software, and AI can compensate for geography, manpower, and uncertainty. The ambition behind the initiative, officially announced by Union Home Minister Amit Shah at the Border Security Force (BSF) Rustamji Memorial Lecture, is sweeping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010023,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010022\/revisions\/1010023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}