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Kavach - An indigenous Automatic Train Protection System
Date : 05 Mar 2022

Kavach - An indigenous Automatic Train Protection System

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Why in News?
  • Union Minister of Railways, Communication and Electronics & Information Technology inspected the trial of ‘Kavach’ working system between Gullaguda-Chitgidda Railway stations on Lingampalli-Vikarabad section in Secunderabad Division of South Central Railway.
About KAVACH
  • The KAVACH is an indigenously developed ATP system by Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) in collaboration with Indian industry and trials facilitated by South Central Railway to achieve the corporate objective of safety in train operations across Indian Railways.
  • It is a state of the art electronic system of Safety Integrity Level - 4 (SIL-4) standards.
  • ‘Kavach’ is one of the cheapest, SIL-4 certified technologies with the probability of error is 1 in 10,000 years. Also, it opens avenues of export of this indigenous technology for Railways.
  • KAVACH is meant to provide protection by preventing trains to pass the signal at Danger (Red) and avoid collision.
  • It activates the train braking system automatically if the driver fails to control the train as per the speed restrictions.
  • In addition, it prevents collision between two Locomotives equipped with functional KAVACH system.
Features of KAVACH
  1. Prevention of Signal Passing at Danger (SPAD)
  2. Continuous update of Movement Authority with display of signal aspects in Driver Machine Interface (DMI) / Loco Pilot operation cum Indication Panel (LPOCIP)
  3. Automatic Braking for Prevention of Over Speeding
  4. Auto Whistling while approaching Level Crossing Gates
  5. Prevention of collision between two Locomotives equipped with functional KAVACH
  6. SoS Messages during emergency situations
  7. Centralized live monitoring of Train movements through Network Monitor System.
 
 


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