In what is perceived as a major breakthrough for rail and road safety, an IIT-led consortium of academic institutions, companies, and R&D outfits have developed the satellite imaging for rail navigation system.
It has been developed as part of the Railway Safety Technology Mission, under N S Vyas, faculty member of IIT, Kanpur.
E-logistics, Chennai, and the Research Designs and Standards Organisation, Lucknow, a railways outfit, besides the IIT, were the other participants. TCS too will join in to upscale the system.
This technology can be used not only by the railways but also a number of other transport modes where tracking is involved.
SIMRAN, as the system has been named, is a train-tracking
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