System for vehicle infrastructure Interaction Assets health status monitoring
Acronym: SIA
EU Contributions: 2.9 million€
Duration: 42 months
Project start date: 01/03/2018
Project end date: 31/08/2021
Partners: 9 partners from 5 countries
Project coordinator: CEIT
EU H2020 GSA project
Grant agreement n°776402
SIA has for main objective the development of four ready-to-use new services (iWheelMon, iRailMon, iPantMon and iCatMon) providing prognostic information on the health status of the railway’s most demanding assets in terms of maintenance costs (wheel, rail, pantograph and catenary):
These new services will help to reduce the 15% of railway maintenance costs, 25% of maintenance unscheduled events and 15% of derailments associated to the rail-wheel interface. To tackle this challenge, the SIA consortium brings together multidisciplinary and cross sector partners (EGNSS technology providers, research centres, IT companies and railway stakeholders) that will co-design EGNSS solutions truly adapted to the needs of the rail sector.
| WP Number | WP Title | Lead beneficiary |
|---|---|---|
| WP1 | Project Management | Asociacion Centro Tecnológico CEIT-IK4 |
| WP2 | End user functionality and SIA architecture definition | GMV NSL Limited |
| WP3 | EGNOS and Galileo based on-board low-cost receiver and algorithms for railway specific domain | GMV NSL Limited |
| WP4 | Integration of sensors, communications and energy supply for on-board sensing nodes | Asociacion Centro Tecnológico CEIT-IK4 |
| WP5 | Component degradation predictive algorithms | Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt EV |
| WP6 | Visualization environment for railway specific maintenance applications | Ingeniería y Control Electrónico SA |
| WP7 | Integration with end-user specific application layer | Ingeniería y Control Electrónico SA |
| WP8 | Test setup development and validation | Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya |
| WP9 | Dissemination, communication and result exploitation | International Union of Railways |
SIA Final Brochure
SIA Project Newsletter June 2021
SIA Project Newsletter April 2020
SIA Project Newsletter September 2019
SIA Project Flyer
Presentation of SIA at ENC 2020 Virtual Conference in November 2020
Please note that some of these deliverables might be undergoing European GNSS Agency review and acceptance processes. At this stage these deliverables reflect only the author’s views and the GSA is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
WP Number WP Title Del Rel. No Title Description Lead beneficiary Dissemination Level Est. Del. Date
WP1 Project Management D1.1 Project Management and Quality Assurance Plan This plan will establish the working procedures and collaborative SW tools that ensure the quality and timing of the outcomes of SIA, it will specifically define the Intellectual Property rights for the exploitation of the outcomes of SIA and establish the procedures for monitoring and control during the SIA project execution and closing phases. This deliverable also includes templates for IPR and Access Rights Management. CEIT Public 30 Apr 2018
WP1 Project Management D1.2 Intellectual Property Rights Controls Agreement Output of Task 1.4 ‘Intellectual Property Rights management agreement’. The IPR management process will start with the delivery of IPR-templates as a part of D1.1 (M2), and these templates will be updated periodically and controlled by the IPR Officer at months M20 and M32, by collecting the information needed for deliverable D1.2 at the end of the project. CEIT Confidential 28 Feb 2021
WP2 End user functionality and SIA architecture definition D2.1 End user requirements of SIA and validation plan This deliverable will be a report containing the end user requirements and the preliminary description of the validation plan. VIAS Public 31 May 2018
WP2 End user functionality and SIA architecture definition D2.2 SIA architecture This deliverable will be a report containing the identification of constituents of SIA, their technical requirements and the interfaces. The verification of the architecture will be also detailed. GMV NSL Public 31 Aug 2018
WP3 EGNOS and Galileo based on-board low-cost receiver and algorithms for railway specific domain D3.1 Justification of the selection of the EGNOS and Galileo based receiver HW platform This report will explain the criteria for the selection process, the different HW platforms that are available in the market and finally the HW platform selected and its features DLR Confidential 30 Nov 2018
WP3 EGNOS and Galileo based on-board low-cost receiver and algorithms for railway specific domain D3.2 Positioning algorithms based on multisensory inputs This deliverable will be a report and SW module. The report will describe the algorithm, the implementation details and verification process results using RANSS-2 GMV NSL Confidential 31 May 2020
WP3 EGNOS and Galileo based on-board low-cost receiver and algorithms for railway specific domain D3.3 Verification environment for the positioning algorithms This deliverable will be a report and the SW tool (RANSS-2). The report will be the user manual of the tool RANSS-2 CEIT Confidential 31 Aug 2019
WP4 Integration of sensors, communications and energy supply for on-board sensing nodes D4.1 Wheel to rail and pantograph to catenary sensing nodes This deliverable will consist on two reports describing the development of the two sensing nodes (mechanical design, part list, mounting scheme, etc.) and the prototypes of the wheel to rail and pantograph to catenary sensing nodes. DLR Confidential 31 May 2020
WP4 Integration of sensors, communications and energy supply for on-board sensing nodes D4.2 Wheel to rail and pantograph to catenary power supply systems This deliverable will consist on two reports describing the design of the power supplies (mechanical design, part list, mounting scheme, etc.) and the prototypes of the power supplies for the wheel to rail and pantograph to catenary sensing nodes. CEIT Confidential 31 May 2020
WP4 Integration of sensors, communications and energy supply for on-board sensing nodes D4.3 On-board data integration platform and train-track communication hub This deliverable will consist on one report detailing the development and the prototype of the integration platform and communication hub. GMV NSL Confidential 31 May 2020
WP5 Component degradation predictive algorithms D5.1 Pre-processing algorithms and communication protocols Report and firmware for pre-processing algorithms and communication protocols CEIT Confidential 31 May 2020
WP5 Component degradation predictive algorithms D5.2 Data synchronization in time and position Report and SW libraries for data synchronization in time and position. CEIT Confidential 31 May 2020
WP5 Component degradation predictive algorithms D5.3 Modified xsd and matching RailTopoModel class diagram RailTopoModel, a multipurpose model for infrastructure data, has been first published by UIC under IRS30100:2016. Additional fields or interfaces (in the sense of UML class diagrams), allowing the description and storage of technical, monitoring, and economic lifecycle data, are foreseen. DLR Public 31 May 2020
WP5 Component degradation predictive algorithms D5.4 Linking of physical parameters with component health status Report describing a failure catalogue and a categorization of the component health status based on maintenance procedures VIAS Public 31 May 2020
WP5 Component degradation predictive algorithms D5.5 Linking of physical parameters with component health status Report describing the characteristics of the algorithms for the wheel, rail, catenary and pantograph DLR Confidential 31 May 2020
WP6 Visualisation environment for railway specific maintenance applications D6.1 – D6.2 Definition of vehicle and infrastructure maintenance standard views and framework development Report and SW module. INGECONTROL Public 31 May 2020
WP7 Integration with end-user specific application layer D7.1 Integration of SIA with end-user information systems Report describing the integration of SIA with four information systems of end-users of the consortium INGECONTROL Public 31 Aug 2020
WP8 Test setup development and validation D8.1 SIA Test setup description Report describing the different test setups for the 4 scenarios FGC Public 28 Feb 2021
WP8 Test setup development and validation D8.2 Validation of SIA Report describing the results of the 9 months validation period for the 4 scenarios INGECONTROL Public 28 Feb 2021
WP9 Dissemination, communication and result exploitation D9.1 Dissemination and Communication plan Report planning dissemination and communication activities UIC Public 30 Apr 2018
WP9 Dissemination, communication and result exploitation D9.2 Development and delivery of the exploitation plan Report on the plan for exploitation GMV NSL Public 28 Feb 2021
WP9 Dissemination, communication and result exploitation D9.3 Data management plan (DPM) Analysis of the main elements of the data management policy that will be used by the project partners and target audience with regard to all the datasets that will be generated by the project. The DMP will evolve during the lifespan of the project. It will be developed according to the Horizon 2020 guidelines , and will reflect the agreed requirements for protection of the different data being shared. CEIT Public 28 Feb 2019
WP9 Dissemination, communication and result exploitation D9.4 Guidelines for SIA implementation Guidelines to be freely distributed, inter alia, to UIC members that are Infrastructure Managers and Train operating companies. The Guidelines will consist of two parts:
– The first part will be addressed to decision-makers, and propose the most effective ways to implement iWheelMon, iRailMon, iPantMon and iCatMon, given current maintenance policies and asset types. The aim of the first part is to help estimate implementation costs, benefits and phasing, in order to obtain a desirable return on investment.
– The second part will be addressed to technicians. It will summarize pre-requisites, applicable standards, inventories of necessary SIA components, and required interfaces and background data (other than directly provided by the SIA system) that are necessary to monitor wheels, rails, contact wires and pantographs.
While provided as a deliverable under the Contract, the guidelines will also be freely distributed, inter alia, over the UIC website. UIC Public 28 Feb 2021
The EUSPA-funded SIA Final event was held on 15 October 2021. A big thank you to all speakers and participants who attended the meeting! Please find below: The presentation given during the webinar (Link). The Read more…
SIA has as main objective the development of four ready-to-use new services (iWheelMon, iRailMon, iPantMon and iCatMon) providing prognostic information on the health status of the railway’s most demanding assets in terms of maintenance costs. Read more…
The SIA project has come to an end, and the final results achieved by the project partners are now being prepared. The project team is eager to share the main technical achievements and the benefits Read more…
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and from the European Union Agency for the Space Programme under grant agreement #776402
