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Railways to roll out smart coaches
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Railways roll out smart coaches with black box and diagnostics
Important Facts:
Smart Coaches are equipped with:
- State-of-the-art sensors that can detect defect on bearings, wheels and the railway track
- Centralized computer to monitor the status of all sensors through a single window
- Black-box has a multi-dimensional communication interface to provide information on passengers and coach condition on real-time basis.
- Artificial intelligence CCTVs to keep a tab on untoward incidents and the behavior of on-board staff
- Internet of Things based system for wheel, coach and track monitoring
- Emergency talk-back system will enable communication between passengers
- Emergency Intercom for passengers
- Digital destination boards
- CCTV with remote monitoring, upgradable with smart video analytics
- Wifi-based infotainment system to locate the train in real-time
- Water-level indicator technology to indicate the water in the coach
