Indian Railways is on a mission to RFID tag of all railway wagons within Dec 2022

GUWAHATI: The Indian Railways is on a mission to RFID (radio-frequency identification) Tag all wagons by December 2022.These tags are used for tracking all wagons.

So far, 23,000 wagons have been covered under the RFID project. The project is still in progress and continuing, although this work has been slowed for some time due to pandemic COVID-19. Currently, Indian Railway is maintaining such data manually, which leaves scope for errors. With the use of RFID devices it will be easier for the railways to know the exact position of all the wagons, locomotives and coaches.

While the RFID tag will be fitted in the rolling stock, trackside readers will be installed at stations and key points along the tracks to read the tag from a distance of about two meters and transmit the wagon identity over a network to a central computer. In this way, each moving wagon can be identified and its movement tracked, stated a release.

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