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Robotic Captain Arjun to screen passengers in Pune 

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Robotic Captain Arjun to screen passengers in Pune 
Central Railways confirmed the launch of robot CAPTAIN ARJUN, to screen passengers while they board trains and keep a watch on anti-social elements as well. To contain the spread of COVID-19, Railway Protection Force of Central Railway (CR), Pune division, launched a Robotic ‘Captain Arjun’ (Always be Responsible and Just Use to be Nice) to intensify the screening and surveillance of passengers.CR is also planning to introduce a similar system in Mumbai very soon.
 

On this occasion, Sanjeev Mittal, General Manager appreciated the innovation by the Railway Protection Force and said "The Robotic Captain Arjun will protect the passengers and the staff from any possible infection and also its surveillance will provide enhanced security".

 

Captain Arjun is equipped with a motion sensor, one PTZ camera (Pan, Tilt, Zoom Camera), and one Dome Camera.

 

The cameras use Artificial Intelligence algorithms to track suspicious activity and antisocial activity, have an inbuilt siren, motion-activated spotlight H-264 Processor, there is also in-built internal storage for recording in case there is a network failure.

 

Captain Arjun does thermal screening and records the temperature in a digital display panel with a response time of 0.5 seconds and if the temperature is higher than the reference range, it sounds an abnormal automatic alarm with a counting capacity of 999.

 

Captain Arjun has adopted a two-way communication mode, voice, and video and also speaks in the local language. It is housed with speakers to spread awareness messages on COVID19.

 

Confirming the development, Shivaji Sutar, CPRO, CR said , "We are also trying to introduce a similar type of system in Mumbai."