{"id":442925,"date":"2021-10-16T10:31:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T05:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=442925"},"modified":"2021-10-16T12:05:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T06:35:17","slug":"western-railways-to-use-surveillance-drones-to-boost-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/western-railways-to-use-surveillance-drones-to-boost-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Railways to use surveillance drones to boost security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to tighten security, Western Railways is planning to use surveillance drones to keep a bird&#8217;s eye watch on railway assets, disaster management, and crowd management, said Sumit Thakur, chief public relations officer (CPRO), Western Railways. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Western Railway is planning to use a new method for the bird&#8217;s eye watch of certain locations. For that, we are using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to keep an eye on yards and tracks,&#8221; said the CPRO.<\/p>\n<p>Thakur said the use of drones will help us in reducing the response time in case of any emergency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will use the technology for crowd management and disaster management. We are procuring two drone cameras for now and we are training our staff to operate them,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to tighten security, Western Railways is planning to use surveillance drones to keep a bird&#8217;s eye watch on railway assets, disaster management, and crowd management, said Sumit Thakur, chief public relations officer (CPRO), Western Railways. &#8220;Western Railway is planning to use a new method for the bird&#8217;s eye watch of certain locations. For that, we are using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to keep an eye on yards and tracks,&#8221; said the CPRO. Thakur said the use of drones will help us in reducing the response time in case of any emergency. &#8220;We will use the technology for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-railways-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}