Swedish company TagMaster, the leading producer of advanced RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) solutions for railway applications, and Confidex, the world’s leading supplier of high-performing RFID tag solutions, have come together to share knowledge in the field of RFID Tag technology. The emphasis will be on the UHF frequency band where the products will conform to the EPC Gen2 standard. Initially, ...

P Vijayan, the Police Commissioner of Kozhikode, has launched a project which will ensure that vehicle parts, personal belongings kept in vehicles and bikes are not stolen in Kerala any more. Called the Student Police Cadet (SPC) Project, the social policing initiative aims at bringing juveniles arrested for stealing bikes, computers and other belongings into the mainstream. He has involved ...

Mumbai Mono Rail’s 19.54km long Chembur-Wadala-Jacob Circle Mono Rail corridor will be the world’s second longest Mono Rail corridor, coming second to only Japan’s Osaka Mono Rail corridor which is 23.8km long. It costs only one-fourth of the world’s longest monorail. While the Osaka corridor has 19 stations, Mumbai’s will have 18. At present the second longest Mono Rail corridor ...

In what can be considered an answer to America’s GPS Technology, Russia has increased the momentum of the development of its decades old GLONASS satellite navigation system. According to the Russian government, the GLONASS civil navigation signals will be made available to customers free of cost and without any restriction. The navigation satellite system is expected to be operational by ...

In order to provide an eco-friendly, comfortable and clean mode of public transport to the residents of Mumbai, and to reduce traffic congestion on roads, a Green Bus Express Service initiative has been undertaken to link North and South Mumbai by MP Sanjay Nirupam under his Go Green campaign. It is meant to promote the use of public transport which ...

Bandra Worli Sea Link (BWSL) has been illuminated by Bajaj Electricals (BEL) with the use of Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer (GRP) street lighting poles. This is the first major installation in India using GRP poles. The major factor for selecting the street furniture for this project was the requirement of combating the prevailing highly corrosive saline atmosphere. GRP poles are ...

LED or Induction Lamps which are energy efficient and cost effective are gradually replacing the conventional street lights like sodium and metal halide lamps

The special automatic sliding doors for use at the bus stops of BRTS have been provided by Technocrats Security Systems Pvt Ltd and are in normally closed and locked position. They are operated by the driver sitting inside the bus. Each door (there are four doors at each stop) has an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) reader mounted by its side ...

Mumbai will soon tread on a new city-wide low-carbon transport path that will facilitate it to avail of current carbon financing schemes. During a two day workshop organised by the Paris based Institute Veolia Environment (IVE) in Mumbai in September, international transport experts and regional authorities discussed how international investment could be harnessed to support the delivery of a city ...

Alarmed by the increasing number of road accident deaths in India — the highest in the world at 1.18 lakh — the World Bank has decided to carry out safety investigations on various patches of state and national highways totaling 3,000km and fund retro-fitting to make them safer. Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF), which is anchored in the World Bank, ...