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Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force vehicles to be tracked via satellite
BY: Tribuneindia
Tasked with operating in remote mountainous areas amid inclement weather conditions, the Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBP) is turning towards satellite-based systems to track and control the movement of its vehicles.
ITBP officers said plans had been drawn up to install GPS tracking and navigation systems in vehicles that would provide real-time information on their location besides other relevant data.
We have just finished trial runs of the pilot project to validate the concept, an ITBP officer said. The pilot project involved installing such systems on 10 vehicles in specified battalions. An ITBP battalion is authorised 60 vehicles of different categories. The ITBP is the only central police organisation among six such security agencies to get installed such systems on its vehicles.
Based on feedback from the pilot project and consequential modifications, tracking and navigation devices would be installed in all vehicles in a battalion. The entire project, sources said, was expected to be undertaken over the next five years.
A Noida-based firm has been contracted to install the gadgets and set up control facilities at the ITBP Headquarters in New Delhi.
While the navigation system would be installed in the vehicle cabins, the tracking and control systems would be retrofitted in the engine compartment and would allow ignition to be enabled or disabled remotely from the control centre.
Besides assisting in monitoring vehicle usage, these systems are also important from the safety point of view, in the sense that a signal can be transmitted in case of an emergency. The devises losing contact with the control centre will trigger an alarm, an officer said.
Significant features of the tracking devices include sending an alert whenever the vehicles crosses a defined geographical limit, exchange phone-calls between the vehicle and control centre, maintaining a log of distances, speed and locations and having inbuilt maps of all cities, towns and districts where the ITBP operates.
The devices would also send an alert if a vehicle proceeding on a specific mission along a stipulated route fails to cross predefined checkpoints within specified time frames.
BY: Tribuneindia
Tasked with operating in remote mountainous areas amid inclement weather conditions, the Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBP) is turning towards satellite-based systems to track and control the movement of its vehicles.
ITBP officers said plans had been drawn up to install GPS tracking and navigation systems in vehicles that would provide real-time information on their location besides other relevant data.
We have just finished trial runs of the pilot project to validate the concept, an ITBP officer said. The pilot project involved installing such systems on 10 vehicles in specified battalions. An ITBP battalion is authorised 60 vehicles of different categories. The ITBP is the only central police organisation among six such security agencies to get installed such systems on its vehicles.
Based on feedback from the pilot project and consequential modifications, tracking and navigation devices would be installed in all vehicles in a battalion. The entire project, sources said, was expected to be undertaken over the next five years.
A Noida-based firm has been contracted to install the gadgets and set up control facilities at the ITBP Headquarters in New Delhi.
While the navigation system would be installed in the vehicle cabins, the tracking and control systems would be retrofitted in the engine compartment and would allow ignition to be enabled or disabled remotely from the control centre.
Besides assisting in monitoring vehicle usage, these systems are also important from the safety point of view, in the sense that a signal can be transmitted in case of an emergency. The devises losing contact with the control centre will trigger an alarm, an officer said.
Significant features of the tracking devices include sending an alert whenever the vehicles crosses a defined geographical limit, exchange phone-calls between the vehicle and control centre, maintaining a log of distances, speed and locations and having inbuilt maps of all cities, towns and districts where the ITBP operates.
The devices would also send an alert if a vehicle proceeding on a specific mission along a stipulated route fails to cross predefined checkpoints within specified time frames.
