IIT Roorkee is now creating drones for the Indian Railway to monitor railway tracks. 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,” said. According to the recent reports, under an initiative of the telecom industry and the railways, Indian IIT Roorkee has developed the drones which are currently being tested on the tracks around the Uttarakhand town. IIT-Roorkee is considering seeking a patent for this technology. The plan is for the drone to work alongside and may eventually replace the conventional system of physical labor, which is a risky and tough job. Use of drones to monitor tracks and modern technologies to analyze the data they capture is expected to reduce the chances of error. Further, the railways plan to expand the use of drones to more functions, including monitoring of projects and other infrastructure as well as relief and rescue operations and crowd management.
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