Loco inspectors constitute the important safety cadre on Indian Railways. As a part of their routine duty they are supposed to carry out footplate journeys with the Loco Pilots and Assistant loco Pilots and judge their performance on several parameters namely, driving technique, safety knowledge, troubleshooting techniques.
In order to make the performance evaluation more qualitatively and quantitatively objective, Agra Division has developed an Android based application as well as a website that can be downloaded from the playstore in mobile phones and hand held tablets. The url of the website being onlinefpm.com and the name of the Android application being Footplate monitoring System.