As India has completed its 14 th Population Enumeration and the data generated
by the Census of India 2001 will provide benchmark statistics.
Data mining of census data (‘Where and How people live?) along with the nation
wise/state/city wise spatial data, such as street level details, property hold and
tagging the address data can be used for assessing the impact of the changing
human behavior pattern (from cable network), living conditions, and area wise
developmental programs and identify areas which confront a wide variety of
threats including natural disasters, terrorist attacks, sabotage and other similar
crises.
Conditional access system (CAS) and Address data:
Applications of Geographical information system (GIS) can be used for laying
cables and monitoring of distribution network. This not only reduces wastage of
cables, but also helps in Cable Network layout and planning, zoning of the areas
to minimize the distribution drop and approachability.