Cameras with Artificial Intelligence to monitor railway kitchens -- here's how it works

In its ongoing effort to ensure quality food reaches passengers travelling on trains, the Indian Railways has equipped 16 of its base kitchens with high definition CCTVs to track anomalies, in real-time, during the cooking and packaging of meals. The camera feed is routed to an Artificial Intelligence module set up at IRCTC's headquarters in New Delhi. A member of the Railways Board visited IRCTC's first surveillance-oriented intelligence kitchen control room in New Delhi on Tuesday morning. M Jamshed, member (traffic), was given a tour of the central control, from where authorities can monitor kitchens. The move comes following a Comptroller and Auditor General audit report last July, which termed food served in railways "unsuitable" for human consumption.