Deep tech firm ropes in city company to build systems, technologies to make Indian Railways safer

NOVA Control Tecnologix (NOVA), a deep-tech subsidiary of e2E Transportation Infrastructure, successful concern with city-based Tata Elxsi (a Tata Group firm), would make Kavach 4.0, the adjacent procreation of India’s indigenous Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system, said to beryllium a milestone successful railway information and exertion innovation.

NOVA, a recently floated limb of e2E, has besides announced its motorboat arsenic a full-stack Rail Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) present connected Thursday.

Speaking connected the occasion, Priyank Kharge, Minister for IT & BT, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj said the collaboration marked a large measurement towards strengthening India’s RailTech ecosystem and aligns with the Ministry of Railways’ modernisation and ‘Make successful India’ vision.

“Every planetary merchandise volition person astatine slightest 1 enactment of codification written successful Karnataka,” the Minister remarked. He further said, “The collaboration betwixt NOVA and Tata Elxsi connected Kavach 4.0 is simply a shining illustration of however Karnataka continues to pb India’s engineering and exertion evolution.”

As per the concern agreement, NOVA volition service arsenic the superior OEM for Kavach 4.0, liable for manufacturing, testing, and integration, portion Tata Elxsi volition pb connected hardware and bundle design, prototypes, information certification (in compliance to RDSO standards and SIL4 compliance, the highest planetary information standard), and cybersecurity engineering.