Indian Railways has announced to RFID Tag all wagons by December 2022.
Basic Facts
The Indian Railways will complete this process of fitting radio-frequency identification tags (RFID) in all the wagons by December 2022. These tags will be used for tracking all wagons.
So far 23000 wagons have been covered under RFID project. The Project is still in progress and continuing.
Government has fixed the deadline for fitting of RFID in all the wagons of Indian Railway till December 2022.
Benefits of RFID Tag
Currently, Indian Railway is maintained such data manually, which leaves scope for errors. Using RFID devices 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.
With the introduction of RFID, the issue of shortage of wagons, locomotives and coaches is expected to be addressed in a more transparent and expeditious manner.
What is RFID?
RFID is short for “radio frequency identification”.
These tags are a type of tracking system that uses smart barcodes in order to identify items.
It works by transmitting and receiving information via an antenna and a microchip — also sometimes called an integrated circuit or IC.
