Publication detail
Smart Sensing System for Railway Monitoring
KŠICA, F. RUBEŠ, O. KOVÁŘ, J. CHALUPA, J. HADAŠ, Z.
English title
Smart Sensing System for Railway Monitoring
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Original abstract
This contribution presents a novel smart sensing solution for obtaining operational information from railway trackside. The proposed system consists of strain-based active MFC sensors mounted directly on a rail, that are used to collect data from vibrations and via tailored electronics and wireless transmission systems send them to a cloud-based storage system for further processing. The entire system operates in an ultra-low power regime and allows for automatic threshold-based triggering and data acquisition while being powered either externally or by energy harvesting systems. Acquired signals are stored and processed on a remote server in close to real-time manner to provide operational information about the track and the passing train, detects failures or events endangering the safety of operation, as well as evaluate long-term changes for predictive maintenance purposes. The presented system has been successfully deployed on multiple sites across Czech Republic and Taiwan, an in its current state could already present a competitive solution for automatic operational and health monitoring of railways.
English abstract
This contribution presents a novel smart sensing solution for obtaining operational information from railway trackside. The proposed system consists of strain-based active MFC sensors mounted directly on a rail, that are used to collect data from vibrations and via tailored electronics and wireless transmission systems send them to a cloud-based storage system for further processing. The entire system operates in an ultra-low power regime and allows for automatic threshold-based triggering and data acquisition while being powered either externally or by energy harvesting systems. Acquired signals are stored and processed on a remote server in close to real-time manner to provide operational information about the track and the passing train, detects failures or events endangering the safety of operation, as well as evaluate long-term changes for predictive maintenance purposes. The presented system has been successfully deployed on multiple sites across Czech Republic and Taiwan, an in its current state could already present a competitive solution for automatic operational and health monitoring of railways.
Keywords in English
railway monitoring, MFC sensors, smart sensing system, IoT
Released
07.12.2022
Publisher
IEEE
Location
Pilsen
ISBN
978-1-6654-1040-3
Book
Proceedings of the 2022 20th International Conference on Mechatronics - Mechatronika (ME)
Pages count
6
BIBTEX
@inproceedings{BUT181444,
author="Filip {Kšica} and Martin {Beňo} and Ondřej {Rubeš} and Jiří {Kovář} and Petr {Sosna} and Jan {Chalupa} and Zdeněk {Hadaš},
title="Smart Sensing System for Railway Monitoring",
booktitle="Proceedings of the 2022 20th International Conference on Mechatronics - Mechatronika (ME)",
year="2022",
month="December",
publisher="IEEE",
address="Pilsen",
isbn="978-1-6654-1040-3"
}