Indian Railways has scaled up the deployment of its artificial intelligence-enabled Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to curb elephant fatalities on rail tracks, with the technology now active across 141 route kilometres (RKms) of the Northeast Frontier Railway and tenders awarded for an additional 981 RKms nationwide.

The IDS, which uses a Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) system, generates real-time alerts for loco pilots, station masters and control rooms when elephant movement is detected near the tracks. The system is aimed at ensuring timely preventive action and significantly reducing collision risks in vulnerable zones.

The Railways is concurrently piloting AI-driven predictive maintenance in signalling systems at select stations to assess its effectiveness. Trial results are exp

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