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25/09/22 10:11 AM IST

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

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  • 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 

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