'IT vision-2020' focuses on Indian railways

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Allahabad, Aug 13: Indian Railways network, the world's largest would witness a sea change through information technology which was destined to play a bigger role in the next ten years.

Speaking on the '' role of information technology in engineering design-- a case study of Indian Railways'' in a national seminar on '' IT vision-- 2020'' Prof S G Dhande, Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur here at it's foundation day celebration last evening said a technology mission on railways has been launched by IIT Kanpur and RDSO to initiate and incubate design and development projects of significant national importance and technology issues on railway safety and economy related to multitude of engineering disciplines.

Prof Dhande said that the mission's objective was to develop and adopt state-of-the-art safety, control and design technologies defined by needs related to Indian conditions. The mission would formulate and implement projects aimed towards achieving higher output, lower cost of transmission per unit and safer train movement.

Explaining one of the projects, he said that most derailments can be traced to either the failure of wheel bearings or brake binding.

Both the conditions lead to overheating followed by seizure which in turn can cause wheel flats, track damage and derailment. A hot axle and box detection system has been developed and tested.

Industry partners were identified and a prototype system is under fabrication. The system uses state of the art technology throughout.

Data will also be available for integration into the signaling network of the Indian Railways, he added.

He also called upon the students of IIT to come forward in development of instrumentation for improving the visibility during foggy weather, at night and bad weather conditions by developing a fog vision system.


UNI

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