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AI to ensure clean linen to rail passengers

une Central Rail division specifically designed for cotton to stained or torn sheets by
is leveraging artificial bedsheets of size 1400x2500 mm. passengers.
intelligence (AI) for The use of this AI feature supports Railway Minister Ashwini
bedroll linen inspection the existing manpower working in Vaishnaw, who inaugurated the
Pand approval in order to laundries while completing the task initiative, said the new machine
improve passenger rail experience. within the existing procedure at a was an experiment that will be
Once washing is completed, the minimal cost. expanded for use across the country
linen is passed for inspection by an Indian Railways distributes as the technology develops.
AI-trained camera. Stained or torn approximately six lakh packets of Implementation plans include
linen is rejected and clean linen is linens daily, each packet comprising laundries of Central and Western
approved for ironing and packing. two bedsheets, a pillow cover, a Railways and eventually across all
Developed by a technology hand towel, and a blanket. Of this, zones in the country, according to
partner, this feature requires no an average 20,000 bedsheets are the Minister.
additional infrastructure. An AI- served daily to 10,000 passengers
equipped camera with a scanner is on trains operated by the Pune
installed on the existing Calender division.
machine used for ironing which According to reports, Indian
will scan the bedsheets from top Railways has 80 mechanized
and bottom and segregate stained laundries across the country and
or torn ones from washed linen currently, only 2 percent of linen
before processing it for ironing and is sample-checked for rejection,
folding. The detection machine is resulting in complaints relating

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