Commuters using MMTS railway services in Hyderabad and neighbouring regions can now have real-time information on train positions on advanced LED display monitors at all stations.
The South Central Railways is executing a project to set up LED display monitors at all the 26 stations that connect MMTS services on the Falaknuma-Secunderabad-Lingampalli route. These are connected to a global positioning and general packet radio systems
The railways operate 121 MMTS services on this 42-km route, ferrying about 1.5 lakh passengers every day. About 215 LED monitors have so far been set up on 69 platforms at these stations, a statement from SC Railway said.
A GPS based receptor module, which receives its latitude and longitude co-ordinates from satellite, is fixed on each of the motorcar in all MMTS trains.
This device encrypts, processes and transmits information on train number, route and current location to a main server using GPRS. No manual intervention is required for any inputs. An external main server receives and analyses this encrypted data, decrypts and sends out information to local servers installed at stations.
The local server at a particular station feeds the relevant information to the display monitors positioned on the platforms. These monitors display the current location of the next three MMTS trains on run that are to arrive at a particular station in either direction.
This position automatically gets updated on real-time basis as per the movement of the train. The train number, route, the live status of the train and the expected arrival/delays at that station is displayed for the next three trains in sequence in three languages – Telugu, Hindi and English, the statement added.
This system can be used for displaying useful information on the other regular express/passenger trains also. In addition, this system automatically triggers public announcements in the three languages on the next expected trains at that station.
Published on December 8, 2013
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