Capabilities
Rail monitoring
Inertial and gyroscopic sensing applied to rail infrastructure monitoring.
What it is
Track is inspected today by taking it out of service and sending specialist equipment along it. That is expensive enough that it happens rarely, which means a fault has time to develop between one inspection and the next. Inertial sensing changes the economics: a vehicle already making the journey can measure the geometry of the track underneath it as it goes.
What comes back is a record of how the track moves a vehicle — where it dips, where it twists, where the ride is getting worse in a place that was fine last month. The instrument has to be small, stable over long runs and repeatable between vehicles, or the comparison between two passes means nothing.
The same argument applies wherever infrastructure is long, distributed and inspected by exception. Measurement that rides along with normal operations produces a history, and a history is what tells you something is changing before it fails.
Example applications
- IMU / gyro
- An inertial measurement unit and gyro package riding on service vehicles, building a geometry record continuously rather than on the inspection calendar.
Talk to us about Rail monitoring
Tell us what runs on the route, and what you would do differently if you had a geometry record from every pass.