A high level technical discussion and demonstration session was held between N.F.Railway and IIT-Guwahati at the NF Railway (Construction) Headquarters at Maligaon on Wednesday, wherein a number of state-of-the art technologies for automated bridge monitoring and robotic underwater bridge maintenance were discussed, and detailed roadmap for collaboration between the two esteemed institutions on this aspect was drawn up.
According to a Press release by the NF Railway, one of the interesting technologies discussed during the session was an Advanced under water Inspection and Maintenance system of Railway Bridges, which will utilize robotics & AI based systems to address the unique challenges of underwater bridge maintenance, including detection of faults and retrofitting.
Another major area of discussion was a Command center based predictive maintenance System for automatic monitoring of Railway Bridges, which is a cutting edge initiative aimed at enhancing bridge safetythrough predictive analytics. The session was held in presence of General Manager, Northeast Frontier Railway Chetan Kumar Shrivastava, General Manager, Northeast Frontier Railway (Construction) Arun Kumar Chaudhary and other senior official of NF Railway.
