Simplifying IT
Indian Railways
Crew Management System
Apr 11th
CMS manages the attendance and working of the close to one lakh drivers and guards of the Indian Railways. CMS plays a very important role in issues such as timely running of trains, safety and security of passengers and in controlling overall working expenditure of Railways. It is indeed a mammoth task.
Thinvent has been deeply associated with the CMS project since its inception, and has provided the following technology solutions:
- A rugged and hassle-free thin client platform to help CMS reach its target audience.
- Kiosks that allow computer-illiterate drivers to sign-on for duty and receive their duty roster.
- Desktops that include the latest office productivity software, bundled with the OS image.
- Centralised monitoring and management, that allows a single operator in Delhi to manage all the 1,500+ CMS clients with ease.
- Biometric authentication on the kiosks, which provides quick authentication of the 1,00,000+ users.
- Integration and automation of breath alcohol meters, which checks drivers for alcohol abuse before and after duty.
- Replication of the entire J2EE stack on the client side, and constant synchronisation of the database, permitting the kiosks and desktops to work even when connectivity is lost.
- Server load balancing and failover.
- SMS transmission and receipt using GSM modem and SMSC gateway.
Our partners in this project include:
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| VXL Instruments | HP |
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 Spanco |
| Vayam Technologies | Spanco Telesystems |
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| TCIL | ITI |
Unified Ticketing Client
Jul 31st
The Indian Railways sells an average of a million reserved and 16 million unreserved tickets every day. Ticketing revenue is expected to rise from Rs. 15,080 crores in 2005-2006 to Rs. 25,000 crores in 2009-2010.
We are helping the Railways migrate from dumb terminal based centralised ticketing to a modern distributed system. Our embedded ticketing clients operate even in the absence of reliable network connectivity, permitting ticketing in far flung D and E class stations. Please download the UTC Case Study to know more about the UTC product.
View of a Railway Reservation Counter
Some of the salient features of our ticketing product are:
- An ISCII library that provides rapid printing of Hindi and other Indian languages on dot matrix and thermal printers.
- Reverse engineering and exact reimplementation of the legacy PRS emulation system under Linux, permitting migration of PRS to the new system with zero code change.
- Replication of the UTS and PRS terminal interfaces under Linux, permitting operators to use the new system without any learning curve.
- Load balancing, failover, disconnected operation, automatic synchronisation of the database on network recovery, remote management and monitoring, and automated startup.
Our partners in this project are:
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| Center for Railway Information Systems |
VXL Instruments Ltd. | HP |
