DIMAPUR: To ensure safe and speedy operation of trains, the Northeast Frontier Railway has provided Internet Protocol Multiprotocol Label Switching (IPMPLS) with Network Management System (NMS) facility at 156 stations under Katihar, Alipurduar, Rangiya and Lumding divisions.
Apart from this, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), UTS/ PRS railnet circuits are migrated from Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) to IPMPLS, informed the chief PRO of NF Railways, Sabyasachi De.
SCADA is used for providing effective monitoring control of the railway system. He informed that IPMPLS has a great advantage in any-to-any connectivity environment presently, an essential requirement for Indian Railways for communication needs modernisation.
[bsa_pro_ad_space id=1]He added that System Monitoring & Predictive Maintenance Centre (SMPMC) and Network Control and Data Analytic Centre (NCDAC) have been established for artificial intelligence-based predictive maintenance of assets, real-time data acquisition and allocation of resources from centralised locations. This would improve man-power deployment to the critical assets on priority and reduction in overall maintenance cost, he added.
In addition, the chief PRO stated that Wi-Fi dashboards have been provided for real time monitoring of Wi-Fi at all 382 stations provided with Wi-Fi. Also CCTV dashboards have been provided for real time monitoring of CCTV at 11 stations. Besides, he informed that Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) based train control communication system has been commissioned at 26 stations. VOIP is a technology that allows making voice calls using a broadband internet connection instead of a regular phone line.
He has attributed those achievements to sustained and concerted efforts of NF Railway workforce.