DEDICATED FREIGHT INFORMATION SYSTEM
Nanduri Srinivas
Director OP&BD
www.dfis.indianrailways.gov.in
DFCCIL GENESIS
DFCCIL envisaged as state of the art
technology in construction,
maintenance & operations to improve
operation at new efficiency level.
Towards the objective
Trains operations envisaged through TMS
and considering need for addressing modern
requirement DFIS has been designed.
“Aatma Nirbhar” initiative
● Developed by in house talent of young
executives from user department
● guided by domain experts and technicians
with extensive experience in the field.
● This application has several modules and
key performance indicators over WDFC
and EDFC are monitored through DFIS.
Secure access…
● Access : All users, Management, Staff & Customers
● Security : Two factor authentication, hosted on
secured CRIS cloud to ensure security, reliability,
concurrency and availability.
DFIS operates on the CRIS cloud server
and is integrated with various Indian
railways (IR) applications, such as CMS,
ICMS and FOIS, to share data through a
rest API mechanism.
As DFCC shares railway assets,
including wagons, locomotives, and
crew for train operations, the integration
with IR applications allows for seamless
communication and data sharing
DFIS…
● Latest design assimilating field level data with real time
analytics
● All facets of freight including:
○ Operations : Trains run, Crew, Rolling stock info.
○ Maintenance : Blocks
○ Safety & Planning : Plans , Signaling, Inspections follow
up
○ Manpower management : Staff deployment, Assessment
of work, all financial data and staff grievance
○ Cargo visibility module : Transit assurances and
guarantees
Primary Goals…
● DFIS will act as facilitator/a central system for communication of data between
different systems of IR and TMS
● Short term objective: To provide an interface to integrate data generated and
processed by various systems.
● Long term objective: To develop a OLAP (online analytical processing) for
performing multidimensional analysis for Business intelligence and DSS.
Focus…
• Reliable real-time Train Monitoring and Operation
• Digital auto-generate MIS reports, Operations data and Statistics
• Paperless and integrated Station Management
• Unusual incidents reporting and impact analysis
• Digitalization of important Forms & Authorities
• Business Development data, analysis and planning
• Details of private sidings
E Station,
Block
Management • Business development reports
• Terminal Management, Loading/Unloading reports and analysis.
• Cadre Management (PME and training details).
• Other important links and works
• Many under progress..
Progressive & Agile…
We have utilized the agile method of development
during the creation of our system, and we have been
continuously receiving feedback from various
stakeholders, including field staff, station masters,
controllers, and management users. This feedback
has been used to evolve the system over time and it
continues to undergo improvements.
Dashboard
Live Train
• Corridor wise/ Direction wise /Traction wise (Red : Electric, Blue : Diesel) wise
Live train monitoring 24x7
• Colour coded speed display in train name
• With live Blocks & No. of Interchange at Junctions.
• Train running detail can also be access on click
Train Monitoring Chart
Block Management
• An integrated, single-window, digitized platform for
requisition, granting, extension, cancellation etc. of Civil,
OHE/TRD, S&T or Integrated blocks.
• System generated transaction time : Manipulation-Free System
• User authentication & specific flow : Logical- Authenticated System
• Centralised Monitoring cum MIS : Automated Reporting System
• Linked with UIMS, e-TSR, e-Diary : Integrated System
• Alert and Notification : Real-Time Information System
• Linking of Blocks with Signals : in progress
Operation module
Realtime Operation & Train running monitoring
tools (Corridor Wise, Direction wise)
► Rake details (Composition, Commodity
Origination, Destination etc.)
► Loco & Crew details
► Train detention at station & Block
section
► Dynamic ETA visibility
► Dynamic speeds visibility
► Energy consumption reports
MIS Reports & Dashboard
► Daily morning Operation Reports
► Dashboard items
► Yday, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly &
Customised period MIS reports
○ Train running
○ Interchange
○ Detention
○ Speeds
○ Special reports
Station Management
► Secured Portal Accessible to
Station Masters for Various Entries
regarding Train Operation ie:Train
Operation,
Authorities,Blocks,Unusuals.
► Entries regarding Train Operation
Can be made only by SM on Duty
through Dynamic User Credentials.
► Digital/online issuance of Operating
Forms & Authorities.
UIMS Module
► Live Unusual screen gives real time
view of unusuals over the DFC.
► Concerned departmental officials can
add comment and update rectification of
incident.
► Accountal of delay of trains (Detention &
Number of trains) on individual unusual
► and also can account of of unusual
faced per train.
► Automatic pushing of Asset Failures to
ICMS/IR via UIMS/DFIS through APIs.
Commercial Dashboard & Registers
► Commercial Loading Stats
► Digitization of Commercial
Registers on progress.
Digitised Commercial Dashboard Of All Commercial Registers at Stations
Section Availability Module
● Section Availability Module is
implemented to give section wise
Availability of different sections in
terms of Percentage across the two
corridors
● It considers various factors like
Blocks and Unusuals which affect
Path Availability for traffic in its
calculation
SMART Reporting
Self Work Assessment of Officials Through Continuous Monitoring and Tracking
Geo fenced virtual crew lobby
• Virtual lobbies are configured by CMS/IR at OCC/PRYJ
and OCC/ADI on one PC connected via FOIS network. It
will be manned 24x7 by DFC crew controllers.
• Crew will be able to do sign on/off on IR Chalak-Dal App
once he is within the geofenced area of the DFC crew
changing point (actual lobby).
• Traffic Advice and corresponding crew assignment task
will be done on CMS application at OCC/PRYJ and
OCC/ADI will be pushed to DFIS to avoid duplication of
task in DFIS by CMS/IR.
• Crew monitoring and Restroom management
Crew monitoring and Restroom management
Cadre Management
Self updatable (Employee CV, Bio-data
Registers), Real time Operating staff (SM &
MTS) on duty available round the clock.
Inspection Reporting System
► Developed to facilitate
inspecting officers to add
inspection notes to system.
► System will generate
reports based on
parameters like date,
section, items and assigned
officials.
Messaging Module
Message broadcasting
module is added to facilitate
officials to for sending mass
messages/Individual to
specific user groups as
Station Masters, Controllers
etc.
D2D : Back to basics
• “One stop shop" an end-to-end single Window Digital Solution
for all Logistic requirements of capturing all railable commodities
breaking shackles of size & class (Blue Ocean Strategy)
• Support small businesses / entrepreneurs as aggregators
Collaborate with Indian Railways to make this a PAN India
project.
• non-traditional customers and commodities to improve market
share of freight transport via competitive price strategies.
• Customer engagement and delight : To adopt latest
technology solutions (dynamic ETA using Maps, different
payment options, Tracking via QR code, SMS notifications,
visual evidences)
• To bring parcel clerks services at customers doorstep at their
fingertips.(which currently not available)
Caution orders integration with ICMS
FOIS <-> DFIS <-> TMS INTEGRATION
• Integration with FOIS already started Use cases for
forecast, train path and handover tested.
• Integration with Alstom TMS in progress testing with
Alstom simulator for forecast and train path over,
Application testing in progress.
• With integration of departure and arrival data coming
from TMS train running will work with machine
generated data instead of manual fed data.
Way forward…
• In last one and half year DFIS has collected sufficient data that
can be utilized for Data/Business Analytics.
• After commissioning of all sections DFIS will focus on efficient
operations by using eco-driving techniques and ML
optimization algorithms for time and energy optimization.
• To implement this DFIS is going to implement the next
generation of Information Technology & Information Security
like Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML),
Blockchain, Cloud Computing, Big Data Analytics, Process
Automation, GIS (Geospatial Information System) based
application development.
Way forward…
• DFCCIL is soon launching secured Tablet embedded with:
• Advance Signal Position/Fog Signal Device,
• Pushing of Train Authorities and Caution Orders
• Abnormalities reporting - Two way
• MDM device can only be used for specific and authorized user.
• Availability of updated circulars, other important manuals and
bulletins
• Also collect and populate many online data.
• No personal content & Apps
THANK YOU
Nanduri Srinivas
[email protected]www.dfccil.com
