Train Positioning
Work Crew Safety
Wheel Defect Detection
Lost Wagon
Detection
Detection
Derailment Detection
Monitor driver behaviour
Predictive Maintenance
Rail Break Detection
fiberRAIL® - Track and Monitor Everywhere
Benefits of fiberRAIL®
INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY
Seamless positioning enables „moving block interlocking” for increased line capacity
Enhance Safety
Detect and react before accidents or damage happen
Save Costs
No track- or train-side installation // zero maintenance
fiberRAIL® offers leading-edge solutions
for railway and infrastructure operators
Take a look at the fiberRAIL® information Flyer!
Derailment Detection
- No automatic detection for partial derailment today
- High potential for damage and accidents, high impact
- Immediate detection by fiberRAIL® can safe lifes and reduce repairment costs
Wheel Defect Detection
- No automatic detection today
- Flat spots damage rail infrastructure
- Early detection by fiberRAIL® significantly lowers repair costs
Rail Break
- No automatic detection today, only observations by the driver
- High potential for damage and accidents, high impact
- Early detection by fiberRAIL® prevents accidents and significantly lowers repair costs
Work Crew Safety
- Work crews depend upon warning about approaching trains
- fiberRAIL® provides spot-on, real- time warnings that work independently of interlocking. Warning message can be sent directly to mobile devices.
- fiberRAIL® increases redundancy and avoids human error.
Lost Wagons
- Pose a major threat for train traffic and infrastructure.
- A lost wagon may stay undetected until it passes an axle counter
- fiberRAIL® alarms about lost wagons without delay and everywhere on track, thereby prevents severe accidents, personal injury and loss of life
Train Positioning
- fiberRAIL® provides real-time position and speed of all vehicles in your network
- No train-side equipment needed (GNSS & GMS-R)
- Accurate, real-time passenger information
- Usage and wear statistics on your infrastructure supports predictive maintenance
Predictive Maintenance
- Anticipate failures by online monitoring of key parameters
- Early planning and timely maintenance save cost
- fiberRAIL® provides seamless and continuous data of all your assets for predictive maintenance
Encourage sustainable driver behavior
- Excessive acceleration and braking cause severe wear of the rail infrastructure
- Online detection and documentation of excessive driver maneuvers
- fiberRAIL® provides seamless and continuous data to raise driver awareness
Technical Specifications
Basic Performance
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- Range: up to 50 km, 100 km with repeater device
- Position and event update rate: 1 per second
- Basic train monitoring: train position, train length, train speed, movement direction
- Trains monitored simultaneously: up to 100
- Position resolution: approx. 1 m
- Position accuracy: approx. 10 m
References / Pilot Operations
- 3 interrogators
- 100+ km of track
- 1 year trial installation
- real-time operation
- 8.8 km track
- permanent installation
- real-time operation
- rail-foot cable
- High performance/high speed track
- 20 km
- 4 weeks data analytics
- rail on ballast and concrete
- cable trench
- Tunnel
- 26 km track
- 20 days real-time operation
- 2141 trains
- cable trench
- 10 km track
- data analytics for flat spot detection
- 39 freight trains
- cable installation in ground
- 1 interrogator
- 40km track
- wheel defect monitoring
- real-time operation
- 6 months trial
- 1 interrogator
- 55km track
- real-time operation
- 9 months operation (ongoing)