Safety & Security

Dr Neelima Chakrabarty, Sr Principal Scientist & Kamini Gupta Sr Technical Officer, Traffic Engineering and Safety Division, CSIR-Central Road Research Institute, share the observations from a study conducted among the commercial drivers under different simulated terrains under Indian Traffic Conditions. Driving is a complex task requiring a vigilant mind and sound health. Major cause of accidents has been identified as ...

SP Fire Research, Sweden is one of the largest  fire research facilities in the world and has  been active in promoting bus fire safety for  more than a decade. Björn Sundström, Head, and Fredrik Rosen, Marketing Manager SP Fire Research, outline how bus fire safety research can reduce the risk of fires Aircraft, trains and passenger ships all have well ...

The Nanded police keeps crowds and historic landmarks safe with smart video from Axis solution enabling remote monitoring, supporting manual intelligence and improving operational efficiency Nanded houses the second largest Gurudwara house of worship in India and attracts hundreds of pilgrims and tourists every day. The growing security concerns were recognized early by the Nanded Waghala City Municipal Corporation (NWCMC) ...

As India gear towards making the Smart Cities mission a reality, there is an urgent need to prioritise the needs of individual cities and form a development plans. Although there are various model cities around the world, India will have to shape its own unique smart cities, considering its strengths and weaknesses. How smartly we build, manage and operate our ...

Li-ion is widely used in various consumer products and are beginning to be used in electrified vehicles (xEV). xEVs have the potential to be safer than conventional combustion engine vehicles, simply because they have less or no flammable gasoline/ diesel. Additionally, the xEVs have potential for safety enhancement due to e.g. freedom of design and a greater stability performance with ...

The growing amount of vehicular traffic to the airport premises made Mumbai International Airport to entrust complete security of its multi-level car parking to KritiKal SecureScan Pvt Ltd. Kapil Bardeja, Co-Founder & CEO, of its company speaks about the automated under vehicle scanning system or UVSS. UVSS, integrated with other security and parking systems, gives a complete, automated and real ...

Modern railway systems are becoming more software intensive than ever before. Majority of safety functions are implemented and/or controlled by computers. Dr Ajeet Kumar Pandey, RAMS Leader, Alstom Transport, explains the software safety assurance model for metro railway. System Safety is the key driver in the design of systems and must stand upfront before any analysis. It is a planned, ...

Goa, located in west coast line on Indian sub-continent, is one of the most prominent tourist places in India. Because of the high number of foot falls on a daily basis, the security and traffic regulations across Goa have been the key concerns of the Goa Police. i2V, an expert in enterprise project especially in city surveillances was selected by ...

KritiKal SecureScan (KSS), an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi incubated entity secures the New Delhi Aerocity completely by installing NuvoScanTM UVSS & VehiScan® ANPR system at multiple hotels entrances. Aerocity with 11 hotels and 5400 rooms is spread across 43 acres of land near Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. The hotels in Aero City are precariously close to various ...

This study aims at developing mechanisms to generate fund for road safety improvement with a case study of Kerala state. As there is no mechanism available to assess the fund requirement for road safety improvement, a rationale was developed by studying the road safety Investment pattern of London. The relation between expenditure towards road safety and improvement in terms of ...