Northeast Frontier Railway-IIT Guwahati ink MoU to enhance rail safety

Guwahati: The Northeast Frontier Railway has signed an MoU with IIT-Guwahati to deploy an advanced camera system for enhanced security and allow persistent monitoring of track conditions.

A release from the Northeast Frontier Railway said the system uses advanced Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors along with GPS technology to continuously monitor track conditions with high accuracy.

The plug-and-play fleet-wide onboard vibration IMU-GPS event camera system allows easy installation across locomotives and coaches without major modifications, it said.


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The system also incorporates event-based camera technology to detect and analyse track abnormalities in real time, which will enable continuous mapping of track defects across the railway network and generate real-time alerts, allowing immediate response to potential safety risks.

The collaboration aims to leverage the research expertise of the Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati to develop a scalable and cost-effective solution, the release said.

It will facilitate predictive and condition-based maintenance, reducing dependence on manual inspections and helping prevent failures before they occur.

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The initiative will improve operational efficiency, reliability and passenger safety, while supporting the broader vision of data-driven and technology-enabled infrastructure management, the release added.