GUWAHATI: The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has successfully installed a machine based on radar technology at Saraighat Rail-cum-Road Bridge in Assam capital town Guwahati, which can alert the railway men relating to ordinary upward thrust in water stage of major rivers.
The machine will automatically and steadily track the water stage in Brahmaputra river and send SMS to pre-determined cell phones at common durations, mentioned NFR Chief Public Relation Officer P.J. Sharma on Monday.
"This automated system is an improvement over manual mode of recording in use so far. Soon it will be integrated with the railways Track Management System (TMS). Similar system will be installed in total 10 bridges within NFR soon," he mentioned.
The transfer is part of a national programme to undertake fashionable technology to alert the railways relating to ordinary upward thrust in water stage of major rivers, he aded.
"Railway men looking after the system will get alert signals as soon as the water level in the river crosses danger level, so that train services can be suitably regulated to obviate any danger. In this system, electro-magnetic waves generated in the instrument passes through the air and reaches water surface and comes back to the sensor," Sharma mentioned.
"The distance between the instrument and water surface is calculated from travel time of waves. Thus, a very accurate and reliable level of water is found. From site, the data goes directly to the Master System through GPRS. Alert signals are automatically sent to cell phones and TMS through an Internet-based system," he added.
The machine will automatically and steadily track the water stage in Brahmaputra river and send SMS to pre-determined cell phones at common durations, mentioned NFR Chief Public Relation Officer P.J. Sharma on Monday.
"This automated system is an improvement over manual mode of recording in use so far. Soon it will be integrated with the railways Track Management System (TMS). Similar system will be installed in total 10 bridges within NFR soon," he mentioned.
The transfer is part of a national programme to undertake fashionable technology to alert the railways relating to ordinary upward thrust in water stage of major rivers, he aded.
"Railway men looking after the system will get alert signals as soon as the water level in the river crosses danger level, so that train services can be suitably regulated to obviate any danger. In this system, electro-magnetic waves generated in the instrument passes through the air and reaches water surface and comes back to the sensor," Sharma mentioned.
"The distance between the instrument and water surface is calculated from travel time of waves. Thus, a very accurate and reliable level of water is found. From site, the data goes directly to the Master System through GPRS. Alert signals are automatically sent to cell phones and TMS through an Internet-based system," he added.
North Frontier Railway installs technology for alerts on water level rise
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