A crisis such as the current corona pandemic shows how dependent vital processes are on manual operations. According to tech companies, it would be good to learn lessons from this period and so make more...Read more
The unprecedented times of the coronavirus pandemic require extraordinary actions from railways that are on the front line. In this regard, digital solutions could benefit significantly. One of the examples is the usage of real-time...Read more
Dutch technology company Dual Inventive will get an Internet of Things (IoT) network. It will be provided by Vodafone Business in the next five years. Dual Inventive, in its turn, will use the IoT network...Read more
The Intelligent Rail Summit 2019 is now open for registration. The event will take place on 19-21 November in the headquarters of UIC Paris, France. Two themes will be discussed by several railway experts: Automatic...Read more
Network Rail is currently conducting trials with an Internet of Things technology to prevent flooding of railway lines. The British railway manager carries out the experiments, which are part of the TrackWater project, in collaboration...Read more
Two employees of Dutch infrastructure manager ProRail have won the Jan van Stappen Award for their project with Internet of Things sensors. These sensors measure the temperature of rails. This prevents switches from getting blocked...Read more
His company won the tender for the provision of 2,000 Internet of Things (IoT) sensors to Dutch infrastructure manager ProRail, and these sensors will be rolled out in the coming months to monitor point heating...Read more
T-Mobile and Vodafone are activating their Internet of Things (IoT) networks based on NarrowBand IoT (NB-IoT) technology. The IoT network is interesting for the railway industry because it is a closed network, which makes interference...Read more
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