{"id":307677,"date":"2024-08-19T19:10:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T13:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=307677"},"modified":"2024-08-19T19:10:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T13:40:04","slug":"indian-railways-to-develop-master-clock-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-railways-to-develop-master-clock-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Railways to develop master clock system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source-<\/strong> This post on I<strong>ndian Railways to develop master clock system<\/strong> has been created based on the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/finding-mismatches-in-accident-probes-indian-railways-to-develop-master-clock-system-for-time-synchronisation\/article68539645.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cIn a first, Indian Railways to develop master clock system\u201d<\/a> published in \u201cThe Hindu<strong>\u201d<\/strong> on 19 August 2024.<\/p>\n<h2>Why in News?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indian Railways is introducing a master clock system to synchronise time across all its applications and systems. A prototype of this system will be demonstrated by October 2.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">What is Current System?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1. Currently, stationmasters manually set the time based on section controllers&#8217; instructions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2. Different Zonal Railways use various time sources, leading to inconsistencies.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Development of the Master Clock System<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1. The Railway Board has formed a committee to work with the Research Designs and Standards Organisation (RDSO) to develop the system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2. The master clock system will use time from reliable sources like NAVIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation) or the National Physical Laboratories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">3. The Director for Telecommunications of the Railway Board is leading the development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">4. The committee will finalise the design, ensuring it works seamlessly across all Zonal Railways, production units, workshops, and data centres.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Why is there need for Synchronisation?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1. Time discrepancies between stationmasters, crew, data loggers, and locomotive systems create confusion during accident investigations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2. Uniform time synchronisation is crucial for efficient train operations, management, and accurate post-accident analysis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>UPSC Syllabus: Governance<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source- This post on Indian Railways to develop master clock system has been created based on the article \u201cIn a first, Indian Railways to develop master clock system\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 19 August 2024. Why in News? Indian Railways is introducing a master clock system to synchronise time across all its applications and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-railways-to-develop-master-clock-system\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indian Railways to develop master clock system<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-307677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}