WRIT - Railway and space nearby

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    Before we could just talk about cellular communications on the railway, I again undertook to tell you all kinds of things that would be happening on the railway. This time we’ll talk a little more than about cellular communications, namely about space.
    While ships plow the expanses of the universe ... oh, not that ...

    07/29/2009 July 27, 2009 in Moscow hosted the III International Scientific and Practical Conference "Satellite Technologies in the Service of Railway Transport" (no matter how I wanted to, I could not attend it ) and the Kosmotrans-2009 exhibition dedicated to it. The project was organized by Russian Railways OJSC and the Scientific Research and Design Institute of Informatization, Automation and Communication in Railway Transport.
    At the conference, they tried to determine the direction of development of satellite technologies in railway transport, optimize the management of the transportation process, train traffic, as well as ensure the safety of passenger and freight traffic and determine the directions of the use of GLONASS / GPS satellite data in information management systems.
    According to the present M2M telematics specialists, equipping each car with a satellite monitoring system allows controlling the composition and location of each formed electric train. As part of the solution to this problem, it is possible to control the working time of electric train personnel on a real scale (conductors, police officers).
    All this, gentlemen, proposed to implement on the family of their BusinessNavigator® systems. This family includes:
    BN-Global® Providing monitoring of the location and condition of vehicles and other controlled objects at the right time anywhere in the world
    BN-City® Providing monitoring of the location and condition of vehicles and other controlled objects at the right time, working mainly in the city and areas
    BN-City®Complex Providing monitoring of the location and condition of vehicles and other controlled objects at the right time, working mainly in the city and region for companies with a large fleet of vehicles
    BN-City®PersonalProviding monitoring of the location and control of mobile employees at the right time, working mainly in the city and the region.
    If anyone is interested in details, you can view the prospectus.

    At that time, at the CosmoTrans-2009 exhibition, specialists from Russian Navigation Technologies (RNT) ), who presented their developments for the railway industry based on the GLONASS / GPS vehicle monitoring system AutoTracker.

    The work of the AutoTracker system is based on satellite communications and is capable of solving a number of urgent problems at the enterprises of the railway industry. For example, the AutoTracker system will be indispensable for continuous monitoring of the speed and location of trains, which will help to comply with traffic schedules and reduce the risk of accidents. It is possible to increase the reliability of transportation by installing autonomous on-board modules on containers. Thus, it will be possible to monitor the location of the cargo and rolling stock online, including facts of car unhooking or removal of containers from the train.

    In addition, AutoTracker can monitor, control the temperature regime and manage railway refrigerated containers and generator sets. For this, the specialists of the Russian Navigation Technologies company developed a specialized solution with functions to ensure a given temperature in the container, remote control of diesel generator units, monitoring the state of a number of container and engine parameters - coolant temperature, oil pressure, battery charge, level fuel, internal and external temperatures, and more, and informing dispatchers about the parameters beyond the permissible limits.

    The AutoTracker system can also be successfully used on static objects. For example, by installing door open sensors, you can instantly track unauthorized entry into a wagon or container.

    As always, at the conference and at the exhibition, people shared their experience; the experience of European colleagues deserves special attention. If only not to the detriment.

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