Overview
- The Intrusion Detection System uses Distributed Acoustic Sensing integrated with AI to identify elephant movement near tracks.
- Deployment is operational over 141 route kilometres on the Northeast Frontier Railway, with tenders awarded for another 981 RKms.
- Alerts are issued to loco pilots, station masters and control rooms to support timely preventive action.
- Pilot projects are testing AI-driven predictive maintenance for signalling to define standard failure-prediction and alert logics.
- Indian Railways has adopted OMRS and WILD and has MoUs for a machine-vision inspection system with DFCCIL and an automatic wheel profile system with DMRC.