Innovative Digital Services for Rail Infrastructure

All trains need infrastructure to operate. But tracks can be broken, overhead lines can be worn excessively, and the clearance profile can be disturbed by vegetation. These failures would all impact train operation or even cause serious accidents. To ensure a safe and reliable journey rail infrastructure is inspected regularly and maintained after incidents. But as maintenance is based on fixed intervals it is unfeasible to maintain all failures before they occur.

With digitalization it is now possible to get up to date information about the status of assets and even predict failures before they occur. But how can the rail infrastructure be digitalized? Usually, installation and connection of sensors would be the right answer to that question. But installing sensors along the 1.7 Million km of track worldwide would be expensive and not very efficient. Finding the right solution for the respective infrastructure asset is key.

To offer sustainable and cost-effective solutions enabling 100% availability of rail systems Siemens Mobility applies latest technologies and innovations by developing Digital Services for rail infrastructure. Local sensor solutions at points are also considered as well as equipping in-revenue trains with latest camera, laser or LiDar solutions. For example, we enable point machines to send 1 Million data points per year each to generate information about its status. And have you ever thought about using a smartphone for monitoring infrastructure assets?

Within the next months you can find out all about our innovative Digital Services for rail infrastructure here on LinkedIn. They are all based on the powerful Mobility Application Suite Railigent? ensuring the latest IT security standards. Stay tuned!