Drone cameras to protect the Railway properties in Visakhapatnam

V Kamalakara Rao | TNN | Apr 7, 2020, 20:14 IST

VISAKHAPATNAM: The Railways pressed drone cameras to protect the railway properties in the city.
The Waltair division senior divisional commercial manger G Suneel Kumar said that the security of unattended Railway Property and vital installations becomes very important. Similarly due to this lockdown it is also necessary to ensure that no unauthorized movement of the people takes place through railway tracks.
“Since it is not practically possible to guard physically the huge assets and open railway tracks widespread all over, the concept of Security Patrolling through Drones has been introduced in the Waltair division,” Kumar said.
Drone cameras will be operating with the help of the permission of State. Naval and Airport authorities so that the movements are fully monitored. They will capture the images of the track from the maximum suitable heights, communication links of 2 km approximately initially so that the image and video reached up to the Operator are clear to take follow up action.
Besides the real time monitoring, the data will be stored to create Video library for future references. Same time with the use of motor or push trolley the operator with RPF can move inside the section and cover the area, if required.
In emergency message can send to the control room for immediate action and information can be passed to local police. The same project will be soon operational at Khurda Road, Bhubaneswar and Puri as per requirement.