Sign In
Learn bits
Science & Tech.
Mahesh

25/09/22 10:11 AM IST

Indian railways develops real-time train tracking system in collaboration with ISRO

In News 
  • Indian Railways is installing a Real-Time Train Information System (RTIS), developed in collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), on locomotives "for automatic acquisition of train movement timing at the stations, including that of arrival and departure or run-through".
RTIS 
  • Developed in collaboration with ISRO, RTIS will help in the automatic acquisition of train movement timing at the stations, including that of arrival and departure or run-through.
  • It will help track train’s movement information as current as 30 seconds to railway passengers.
  • They get automatically plotted on the control chart of those trains in the Control Office Application (COA) system.
  • The Train Control can now track the location and speed of RTIS enabled locomotives /train more closely, without any manual intervention.
  • RTIS devices have been installed for 2700 locomotives in 21 electric loco sheds.
  • As part of Phase-II roll out, 6000 more locomotives across 50 loco sheds shall be covered by utilizing ISRO's Satcom hub.
  • The  technology is powered by CoRover, a conversational AI Platform which is being used by more than 1 billion users.
  • The improved Virtual Assistant, AskDISHA 2.0 has many features like booking tickets, checking PNR status, cancelling tickets, changing boarding station, checking refund status and answering queries like Tatkal timings.
Source- Live Mint 

More Related Current Affairs View All

10 Jan

Rural landowners in Delhi want repeal of Sections 33 and 81 of Delhi Land Reforms Act

'Both sections dealing with the use and sale of agricultural land have come under the spotlight ahead of the Delhi Assembly elections.' This can only be done by the Central gove

Read More

10 Jan

Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas

'Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 18th edition of the Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas  in Bhubaneswar.' The event is held once every two years to “honour the cont

Read More

10 Jan

Deciphering the Indus script

'Recently, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin announced a $1-million prize for experts or organisations in the event of their success in deciphering the scripts of the Indus Val

Read More

India’s First Ai-Driven Magazine Generator

Generate Your Custom Current Affairs Magazine using our AI in just 3 steps