Sanjay Chatterjee, system and security arrangements head of Ideation Technology, which was asked by the Metro specialists to build up the framework, said that a bot-based (web robot) innovation would be utilized to produce e-passes that will be shading coded to guarantee that solitary approved travellers enter the stations at a provided time to keep up the most extreme traveller check.
A shading coded e-pass framework utilizing a cell phone has been created by innovation using a cell phone has been created by an innovation arrangements organization in Kolkata for guaranteeing that a limit of 400 travellers board a Metro Railway train in the city to keep up COVID-19 wellbeing security convention after it resumes administration.
Sanjay Chatterjee, system and security arrangements head of Ideation Technology, which was asked by the Metro specialists to build up the framework, said that a bot-based (web robot) innovation would be utilized to produce e-passes that will be shading coded to guarantee that solitary approved travellers enter the stations at a provided time to keep up the most significant traveller tally.
“The principle challenge was to thought of an answer which can be handily utilized by individuals – the individuals who have cell phones and the individuals who have simple telephones; without introducing any application,” he told PTI.
“So we concocted a basic innovation, we have built up a framework like that of Whatsapp or Facebook Messenger, wherein one can begin it by simply clicking open a connection,” Chatterjee said.
He said that a bot is being utilized for the reason wherein it will ask the planning traveller their name, the loading up station, objective and the favoured time allotment.
A traveller will be given a sum of five inquiries, remembering one for language choice, which he needs to answer utilizing the connection in the cell phone.
Chatterjee said that the travellers would have three language choices – Bengali, Hindi and English.
“The Metro specialists have disclosed to us that a limit of 400 travellers can be conveyed in a train any time of time, because of that either the picked scheduled opening will be given and if the quantity of travellers has just arrived at the edge, an alternate time allotment will be requested from the aiming traveller,” he stated, including that the cycle won’t take more than 10 to 12 seconds.
Chatterjee said that based on accessibility, QR code would be produced quickly, and e-pass will be offered online to the client.
He said that the e-passes would be shading coded dependent on the hourly time allotments.
“The shading code will help simple approval by security personnel of the e-breathes easy spaces, and in this manner avoid personnel of the e-takes break openings, and along these lines avoid queues at the passage focuses at stations,” Chatterjee said.
“The shading code will help simple approval by a security workforce of the e-takes break spaces and consequently stay away from lines at the passage focuses at stations,” Chatterjee said.
He said that for instance, if yellow shading code is being utilized for a specific hour space, a traveller with an alternate shading coded e-pass won’t be permitted to enter a station at that point.
The West Bengal government a week ago proposed building up a framework to give e-goes to suburbanites for entering Metro Railway stations during a gathering between senior Metro and state authorities to guarantee support of social separating standards.
Senior authorities of the Metro Railway and the state government met for the second time on Friday last to talk about the modalities concerning keeping up social separating standards and group the executives, as indicated by a Metro representative.
The designer of the framework for giving e-passes disclosed it to the advisory group during the gathering, the representative said.
Metro Railway head supervisor Manoj Joshi has said that the last date for resumption of the city’s fast travel framework will be fixed without further ado.
The Union Home Ministry has given Unlock 4 rules under which Metro railroad administrations in urban communities will be permitted to continue from September 7 of every a reviewed way.
The West Bengal government had kept in touch with the Railway Board looking for a resumption of Metro and rural train administrations in a restricted way keeping up the standards of physical separating and wellbeing and cleanliness conventions.
The state government has likewise given a request permitting the Metro specialists to continue administrations in the city in a reviewed way from September 8.