Indian Railways to Use Drones Developed By IIT-Roorkee
Indian Railways is very soon starting deployment of drones to monitor rail tracks, a step that will help national transporter focus on the safety aspect.
According to the reports, under an initiative of the telecom industry and the railways, IIT Roorkee has developed drones which are currently being tested on the tracks around the Uttarakhand town.
Anurag Vibhuti, deputy director of TCOE India said, The Indian Railways is in the advanced stages of considering deploying unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor rail tracks using the technology developed by IIT-Roorkee.
Notably, Telecom Centres of Excellence abbreviated as TCOE is a public-private telecom body under which RailTel Corporation( railways’ broadband services arm) has partnered IIT-Roorkee to develop the drones that will help auto...