Bhubaneswar: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday reviewed KAVACH, an indigenously developed Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system.
KAVACH is a state of the art electronic system of Safety Integrity Level-4 standards developed by Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) in collaboration with Indian industry and trials facilitated by South Central Railway.
Features of KAVACH are as mentioned below:
- Prevention of Signal Passing at Danger (SPAD)
- Continuous update of Movement Authority with display of signal aspects in Driver Machine Interface (DMI) / Loco Pilot operation cum Indication Panel (LPOCIP)
- Automatic Braking for Prevention of Over Speeding
- Auto Whistling while approaching Level Crossing Gates
- Prevention of collision between two Locomotives equipped with functional KAVACH
- SoS Messages during emergency situations
- Centralized live monitoring of Train movements through Network Monitor System
Vaishnaw boarded a train to get first-hand experience of how the system works. The trial took place in the Sanathnagar-Shankarpalli section. After the trial, there’s a plan to cover 2,000 km of the rail network under KAVACH.
