Kavach Train Protection System
Description
Kavach: Train Protection System
KAVACH is a state-of-the-art electronic system which was designed to help the Indian Railways achieve Zero Accidents. It is an Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system which has been indigenously developed by Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) in collaboration with Indian industry with trials facilitated by South Central Railway to achieve the corporate objective of safety in train operations across Indian Railways.
It activates the train braking system automatically if the driver fails to control the train as per the speed restrictions. In addition, it prevents collision between two Locomotives equipped with a functional KAVACH system.
It is a Safety Integrity Level 4 (SIL-4) certified technology with the probability of error being one in 10,000 years.
Once implemented, KAVACH will be the world's cheapest automatic train collision protection system, costing 50 lakh rupees per kilometre to operate compared to about two crore rupees worldwide. It also opens avenues of export of this indigenous technology for Railways.
Features:
• 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.
