Railway Protection Force (RPF), Pune has deployed robotic ‘Captain Arjun’, at Pune railway station for screening of passengers before boarding the train.
‘Captain Arjun’ (Always be Responsible and Just Use to be Nice) has been installed to intensify screening and surveillance. The robot will support to keep a watch on anti-social activities too.
The robotic Captain Arjun was launched online on Friday evening. Sanjeev Mittal, General Manager, appreciated the efforts of Railway Protection Force and said “The robotic Captain Arjun will protect the passengers, as well as staff from any possible infection and also it’s monitoring, will provide the additional security.”
Captain Arjun has a motion sensor, one PTZ camera (Pan, Tilt, Zoom camera), and one Dome Camera. The cameras use Artificial Intelligence algorithms to identify suspicious activity and antisocial activities, has an inbuilt siren, motion-activated spotlight H-264 Processor. There is also an inbuilt 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 then it gives automatic alarm with counting capacity of 999.
Captain Arjun has two-way communication mode, voice, and video and also speaks in local language. It is equipped with speakers to spread awareness messages on COVID-19. It also has a sensor based sanitizer and mask dispenser and a floor sanitization facility.