<p>Called ‘raksha kavach’, the device is undergoing its final trial on the Chennai-Arnacunam 32-km track in Southern Railway from last Saturday, and it will be completed in the last week of January, 2011.<br /><br />The trial is being conducted to examine the efficacy of the device on multiple and electrified tracks. <br /><br />It has shown zero error on non-electrified and single track systems.<br /><br />Anti-collision device<br /><br />The ‘raksha kavach’ can detect and prevent head-on, rear-end and side collisions. <br />It can detect and stop approaching trains. The device not only warns the drivers of approaching trains but sends messages to guards and station masters.<br /><br />The ACD is capable of averting accidents at manned and unmanned level crossings, as it warns road users while passing through a level crossing.<br /><br />In a ‘raksha kavach’ network, the devices are installed on locomotives, guard-vans, track-side, station and loco-sheds.<br /><br />The entire network is electronically controlled and works on distributed control systems.<br />The ACD is independent of any signaling system and does not interfere with normal working of train operations.<br /><br />On board computers use data of Global Positioning System (GPS).<br /><br />All ACDs within the networked ‘raksha kavach’ communicate through radio communication when they are within a radial range of at least 300 metres.<br /><br />The Train Collision Prevention System (TCPS) is a flagship product of the Konkan Railway and has already been installed in North Eastern Frontier Railway and Konkan Railway on 2700 kilometres of Indian Railway network.<br /><br />More than 2,000 systems have been deployed on the track.<br /><br />“But without installing ACDs on the entire network, we cannot have complete immunity from collisions because these systems can work only in a situation where both the trains have the facility,” admits Project Director of ‘raksha kavach’, Ajay Bhatt.<br /><br />“ After the final trial of the device, the Railway ministry would go for its nationwide installation,” Bhatt says. The Konkan Railway is optimistic of a good export market for the anti-collision device, as foreign railway networks like the South African Railways have shown interest in the ACD systems.</p>
<p>Called ‘raksha kavach’, the device is undergoing its final trial on the Chennai-Arnacunam 32-km track in Southern Railway from last Saturday, and it will be completed in the last week of January, 2011.<br /><br />The trial is being conducted to examine the efficacy of the device on multiple and electrified tracks. <br /><br />It has shown zero error on non-electrified and single track systems.<br /><br />Anti-collision device<br /><br />The ‘raksha kavach’ can detect and prevent head-on, rear-end and side collisions. <br />It can detect and stop approaching trains. The device not only warns the drivers of approaching trains but sends messages to guards and station masters.<br /><br />The ACD is capable of averting accidents at manned and unmanned level crossings, as it warns road users while passing through a level crossing.<br /><br />In a ‘raksha kavach’ network, the devices are installed on locomotives, guard-vans, track-side, station and loco-sheds.<br /><br />The entire network is electronically controlled and works on distributed control systems.<br />The ACD is independent of any signaling system and does not interfere with normal working of train operations.<br /><br />On board computers use data of Global Positioning System (GPS).<br /><br />All ACDs within the networked ‘raksha kavach’ communicate through radio communication when they are within a radial range of at least 300 metres.<br /><br />The Train Collision Prevention System (TCPS) is a flagship product of the Konkan Railway and has already been installed in North Eastern Frontier Railway and Konkan Railway on 2700 kilometres of Indian Railway network.<br /><br />More than 2,000 systems have been deployed on the track.<br /><br />“But without installing ACDs on the entire network, we cannot have complete immunity from collisions because these systems can work only in a situation where both the trains have the facility,” admits Project Director of ‘raksha kavach’, Ajay Bhatt.<br /><br />“ After the final trial of the device, the Railway ministry would go for its nationwide installation,” Bhatt says. The Konkan Railway is optimistic of a good export market for the anti-collision device, as foreign railway networks like the South African Railways have shown interest in the ACD systems.</p>