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A Look at Solid State Interlocking

Solid State interlocking equipments and methods lack the ingredients of any computer based equipments this denying it the opportunity of taking advantage of the large scale developments that take place in the computer industry. The reasons for this exists in the very important area of its application being in the area which has impact on large mass of people. It is further aggravated due to the lack of economic support available even though it involves large number of people.

The computer industries remarkable growth and constant improvement is primarily due to the large scale support it receives involving a very segment of the human race. In this respect the Railway industry is no different as it is patronized by such large number of users considering specially that it is used much more in the developing countries  and in metros where the population densities are the highest. Yet the same development as is seen by the computer industry is not existing in the Railway signaling industry and the sue of electronics in general and computer based equipments in particular has not been very encouraging and continues to lag behind the latest technologies specially in the area of computer based equipments by about a decade.

One of the major hurdles exist in the form of Railways failure to accept the use of Computer hardware in the same form as is used elsewhere in the industry. The hardware used for Railway signaling industry is always special and so cannot take advantage of new improvements in computer hardware directly and separate improvements become necessary.

Not using a  standard hardware next results in the non availability of standard software products for working the hardware. This again results in another cause of the system being not optimised enough.

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