Kavach System : Data
As per a recent government release, the Kavach system, has so far been deployed on 1465 route km and 139 locomotives on South Central Railway sections.
- The sections include Lingamapalli – Vikarabad – Wadi and Vikarabad – Bidar section (265 Rkm), Manmad-Mudkhed-Dhone-Guntkal section (959Rkm) and Bidar-Parbhsection (241Rkm).
- KAVACH is an Automatic Train Protection (ATP) electronic system designed to help the Indian Railways achieve Zero Accidents.
- Objective is to achieve safety in train operations across Indian Railways.
- It has been indigenously developed.
- It was developed by the Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) in collaboration with the Indian industry.
- Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) is a research and development organisation under the Ministry of Railways.
- It has a set of electronic devices and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) devices installed in locomotives, in the signalling system as well as the tracks.
- These connect to each other using ultra-high radio frequencies to control the brakes of trains.
- It also alerts drivers, all based on the logic programmed into them.
- It is a Safety Integrity Level 4 (SIL-4) certified technology.
- Safety Integrity Level (SIL) comes from two voluntary standards used by plant owners/operators to quantify safety performance requirements for hazardous operations.
- There are four SIL Levels (1-4).
- A higher SIL Level means a greater process hazard and a higher level of protection.
- KAVACH will be the world’s cheapest automatic train collision protection system.
- First successful trial was between Gullaguda–Chitgidda Railway stations of South Central Railway in 2022.
