Intelligent Transportation Systems > Intelligent Railway Safety
Railways carry thousands of people from city to city, across vast landscapes and lush country sides. Nowadays, railway operators are engaging with technology to realize intelligent railway operations, so that they can do more than just monitor rolling stock status and the safety of passengers and equipment. Transport operators spend a lot of time trying to analyze potential risks so they can proactively schedule preventive maintenance in terms of railway safety, cost, and operational efficiency.
Auxiliary Power System
Train Status
Railway Track Status
Wayside Signal Status
To achieve any time, all year round, rolling stock, wayside, signal, power, obstacle detection, monitoring and data collection, on-train management systems need to have the following secure and fault-resistant features.
Enables real-time rolling stock motoring of pantographs, bogies, train axles, wheels, and key equipment on the wayside, such as signals and tracks. Acquire data about distances, speed, inclinations, curvatures, and horizontal/vertical parameters for diagnostics and prognostics.
To realize 24/7 rolling stock monitoring, the onboard subsystem requires both measurement and diagnostic capabilities, also reliable connectivity to transmit diagnostic reports to the cloud or data center so they can synchronize with the trackside diagnostic systems.
Trends in railway transportation are moving towards unmanned operations, so systems need highly reliable automation systems. Advanced wireless technologies transmit on-train data, images, and video to control centers for real time analysis by high-end AI which can perform fast assessments and actions.
Railway Power Supply Monitoring
Pantograph monitoring solution
A pantograph monitoring system can collect, analyze, monitor, and store data collected from cameras and sensing devices. Data is then presented graphically so operators can dynamically evaluate the health of equipment and report any abnormalities.
Solution requirements:
- Multi-Tasking capability
- High expansibility
- Modularization for easy expandability
- Withstands shock and harsh environments
Featured solution
EN50155 Railway 3U CompactPCI
6th generation Intel® Core™ processor/Intel® Xeon® 19” 3U CompactPCI system
Onboard Train Safety Protection
Axle box vibration and train track switching monitoring system
An axle box and train track switching monitoring system collects, stores, and analyzes data from axle boxes, locomotive adhesion coefficients, and train track switching points.
The data is used for diagnostic reports to keep trains running. The system reduces the high cost and risk caused by manual human investigation and achieves the purpose of predictive maintenance.
Solution requirements:
- Supports fanless design
- High expandability
- Modularized for easy maintenance
- Withstands high-temperatures, shock, and harsh environments
Featured solution
EN50155 Railway 3U Fanless CompactPCI
Intel E3800 processor and 19" inch 3U fanless CompactPCI
Rail Track Monitoring
Rail track status monitoring solution
Intelligent software and hardware technologies collect and analyze data from rail tracks, so potential problems can be identified for maintenance teams to trouble shoot, repair, and scheduling preventive maintenance. Data can even be used to optimize driving behavior, improve equipment effectiveness, and so improve overall railway safety, operations, and scheduling efficiency.
Solution requirements:
- Supports multiple I/O interfaces
- Supports multiple networking protocols
- Supports AI deep-learning and training models
- Withstands shock and harsh environments
Featured solution
ITA-3650G Edge AI Platform
Intel 6th & 7th generation desktop processor fanless system for Traffic Management Applications
Driving Behavior Analysis
Driving behavior monitoring solution
Train drivers need high concentration and attention over long periods to react to any unforeseen events with the train or on the track. To mitigate the risks caused by physical and mental conditions, a driving behavior monitoring solution was developed using video and images to analyze a drivers’ behavior, so actions and warnings can be issued in advance to ensure complete passenger safety.
Solution requirements:
- Supports multiple images/video interfaces and analysis
- Supports various networking protocols
- Supports AI deep-learning and training models
- Withstands shock and harsh environments
Featured solution
ITA-5231G EN50155 Railway 2U Fanless AI Platform
Intel® 6th Generation Core™ i processor fanless system
8 ~ 28 Port EN50155 Rolling Stock Switch
NAT Router for Ethernet Train Backbone
Pantographs contain multiple components making safety inspection cumbersome. Traditional manual inspections are inefficient so some railway companies have begun to use technology to build train-mounted pantograph monitoring systems to find potential equipment issues that they can proactively fix.
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