Topic: Infrastructure-monitoring

Intelligent Rail Summit – Day Three

Its very name means the huge potential of ‘Big Data’ – the term we’ve come to know for data which is so large and difficult to process using traditional techniques – was the perfect platform for...Read more

05-12-2016|Comment|author: Simon Weedy

Searching for a ‘data graveyards’ solution

Railways have yet to fully realise the benefits of making best use of operational information collected – much of which is still ending up in ‘data graveyards’. That will be one of the main messages...Read more

22-11-2016|Comment|author: Simon Weedy

Intelligent Rail Summit 2016 conference programme is now available

We are pleased to announce that the conference programme for the Intelligent Rail Summit is now available. It promises to be an exciting conference, with thought provoking sessions from railway industry leaders, decision makers, political...Read more

01-09-2016|Comment|author: admin

‘Identification tags on trains need to be a European requirement’

“It would be great if there was a European requirement to equip trains with RFID tags”, says Juliette van Driel, Chain Director Wayside monitoring systems at ProRail. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags enable the monitoring...Read more

17-12-2015|Comment|author: Marieke van Gompel

Permanent monitoring system on passenger train prevents track failure

Unexpected failures in track infrastructure result in big disadvantages for the traveler. A permanent monitoring system on board a double-decker train should ensure that Dutch infrastructure manager ProRail can replace track parts before they break....Read more

17-12-2015|Comment|author: Marieke van Gompel