Railways look to AI for security solutions

In order to make rail travel safer, the Indian Railways is banking on artificial intelligence-based technology solutions. The national transporter plans to install CCTV across thousands of its stations and trains, and use facial-recognition system to identify people with criminal records and miscreants. In a big step towards that is CCTV surveillance across our stations and train coaches,” Railway Board Chairman V.K. Mr. Yadav said the Railways also intend to use artificial intelligence and face-recognition software to stop criminals. In addition, we kept about ₹2,000 crore from the railway fund for coaches.” The Chairman said in all there are about 58,600 coaches run in the mail express trains in the country and Indian Railways intends to put CCTV in the corridors and above the door.