SIA MAIN GOAL

The main objective of SIA is 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):

• iWheelMon, which is intended for railway operators, will provide real time information about wheel status
• iPantMon, which is intended for railway operators, will provide real time information about the pantograph status
• iRailMon, which is intended for rail infrastructure managers and maintenance subcontractors, will provide real time information about the rail status
• iCatMon which is intended for rail infrastructure managers and maintenance subcontractors, will provide real time information about the catenary status

SIA OBJECTIVES

• Development of low-cost sensor nodes (SIA_NoS) for wheel to rail and pantograph to catenary interaction characterisation;
• Development of a data hub (SIA_DH) that collects on-board information, provides accurate position and time stamping with high availability, and transmits the information to a trackside visualization platform;
• Development of predictive component degradation models (SIA_CDM) that will enable to connect the monitoring information from wheelset, rail, catenary and pantograph with the asset management information system of end-users;

SIA AMBITION

Prognostic health monitoring of key railway assets

• Development of a low-cost real time monitoring system
• Increase of energy harvesting capabilities

EGNSS localisation techniques

• Development of a low-cost positioning solution that will provide high accuracy and high availability in the railway environment;
• Finger printing using vehicle dynamics gathered data;
• Development of a positioning algorithm testing tool.

Component degradation models

• Degradation models: combination of physical modelling & sensors’ data;
• Predictive algorithms.

SIA INNOVATION

• Development of new end-to-end EGNSS based services to address end-user needs;
• Combination of cutting-edge technologies to provide added value to end users;
• Innovation in business model.

PROJECT ORGANISATION