Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) designed Control Office Application (COA) system has begun real-time monitoring of over 700 trains, fitted with GPS (Global Positioning System). The system will facilitate tracking movement of trains even between two stations.
Indian railways collaborated with ISRO designed this COA system for monitoring of passenger as well as freight trains, making it easy to track them and automatically provide the control room about their movement.
Not only the real-time monitoring of passenger trains, but also it helps avoiding theft of coal, oil and other materials ferried by freight trains.
,Director-General of RPF, Arun Kumar said, “Now it will not be easy to stop freight train between stations. Anybody who attempts to commit theft or steal goods will be caught red-handed.”
A major share of Indian Railways revenue comes from freight services. The continued theft and pilferage were a cause of apprehension. The new technology will help out railways to modernise control room, rail network for efficient train movement across the network.
