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2019 offers technology that could improve passenger experience across UK rail
Passengers may soon be able to find out which carriages have available seats, and if the toilets are operational and vacant, before they board the train.
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Interview Spotlight: Tim Gray, Managing Director of Hitachi Information Control Systems Europe (HICSE)
Tim Gray, Managing Director of Hitachi Information Control Systems Europe (HICSE), discusses how their products can help the rail industry move forward and what’s in store for the company in the future.
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Interview Spotlight: Dan Shields, CEO at Shields Energy
Dan Shields, CEO at Shields Energy, discusses how their cloud software and Internet of Things (IoT) devices can help the rail industry forge ahead with its digitalisation agenda.
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Using data to create a better future for rail
Reece Donovan, Group CEO of Nomad Digital, writes that with the advent of Internet of Things (IoT), big data and artificial intelligence (AI), condition-based maintenance (CBM) is becoming an integral part of realising the 'intelligent train' concept.
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Exploring the potential of innovative technology: Digital Rail Revolution 2018
From the variety of topics discussed and the different experiences shared at Digital Rail Revolution 2018, the opportunities that digitalisation continues to bring to the railway industry are exciting. Global Railway Review Editor, Craig Waters, looks at the key topics that had speakers and delegates deliberating at the UIC’s headquarters…
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How prescriptive analytics can signal a new method of railway maintenance
As scheduling has become more sophisticated, maintenance processes have evolved and improved. However, as Michael Saucier, Product Manager at AspenTech discusses, recent studies indicate that most equipment fails on a ‘random’ basis no matter how many assets are inspected. In other words, failures cannot necessarily be correlated to how maintenance…
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Iskratel deploys IoT-based incident-response management solution
Iskratel’s IoT solution has been deployed for Slovenian Railways and has already prevented four potential rail incidents.
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Digital Rail Revolution: What are the top five trends and challenges in rail digitalisation?
31 August 2018 | By Global Railway Review
This webinar will explore some of the most ground-breaking and influential digitalisation initiatives in the rail sector and try to answer which are the most important now and which will be the most important in the future.
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Vortex IoT Ltd
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Vortex IoT build sensors & networks for harsh environments where conditions are hostile, power supply is limited, AI & data security is critical.
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The creation of railway digital twins through the convergence of IT and OT
As part of Global Railway Review’s Going Digital in Rail Week, Dr. Diego Galar, Professor of Condition Monitoring in the Division of Operation and Maintenance Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, explores how the adoption of IoT in railways and its use with OT platforms can enable the use of…
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An interview with… Adrian Sutton, Managing Director, Vortex IoT
As part of Global Railway Review’s Going Digital in Rail Week, Adrian Sutton, Managing Director of Vortex IoT, provides details of the company’s fast-growing development, their data-driven solutions for Network Rail and how they aim to move forward with products that can deliver a step change to the rail sector.
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The Connected Railway In-Depth Focus 2018
Innovative and intelligent solutions are greatly impacting the rail sector. The digital era has the potential to not only revolutionise rail transportation for passengers and freight, but also provide operators and infrastructure owners with a more connected and streamlined approach to how they run their services.
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Perpetuum’s IoT and Big Data solutions to transform rail asset management
A world in which trains are never late and rail travel is cheaper, safer and more efficient may be only just beyond the horizon thanks to radical innovation and technology that has marked the next stage of the ‘digital revolution’.
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Rail freight: Breakthrough into the digital logistics ecosystem
The exchange of information is a critical success factor in supply chain management. Game changers such as Physical Internet, Internet of Things (IoT) and Automation lead to a consolidation of logistics networks. The challenge for rail freight lies in securing the connectivity to a digital logistics ecosystem. The aim must…
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Intelligent Railways In-Depth Focus 2018
Railways simply cannot afford to be unprepared or surprised by equipment and asset downtime. With intelligent predictive maintenance solutions in place, and advanced ways of analysing data, assets can perform more reliably helping to improve the capacity of networks and deliver a better passenger experience.
