VSAT connectivity successfully tested from Madukkarai Railway station

The Very Small Aperture Terminal communication equipment installed in the Accident Relief Train (ART) of Palakkad Division was successfully tested from nearby Madukkarai Railway station on Wednesday. In the mock exercise, video data of relief operations pertaining to a derailment (look like) spot was transmitted to the Railway Board in Delhi, a divisional release said here.

(VSAT) is a one way satellite ground station with a dish antenna and the facility is being utilised effectively by the Railway in disaster management.

The data in video collected from the site is relayed from the VSAT dish antenna to the satellite, with which connection would already have been established and then relayed to a central hub, which regulates it before transmitting to the Zonal and Divisional control rooms.