AIMS : Automatic Inspection & Monitoring System
James Boardman NEBOSH
Managing Director @ Proklean AS | Leadership, Project Engineering , cleaning entrepreneur and railway engineering consultant .
Help? I need a solution to my problem.... I run the Scrap Rail Recovery Project on London Underground. We have three types of rail that I have colour coded as follows : New (blue) , scrap (red - dead) , reusable (green) on the track that needs identifying , monitoring and/or removing .
At the moment we are reliant on manual inspection to identify this rail to log and manage its location , this is very labour intensive and costly , as we have 100's km of track in the tunnel and open section , and rail is often moved around to facilitate renewing of the track and maintenance / upgrades etc..
I want to utilize and capture this information and manage this via a Big Data solution system I've called AIMS (Automatic Inspection & Monitoring System).
This is how I see it working . Rail will be securely tagged with colour coded numbered identification plates on the head of each rail as soon as they are stored in the 4ft. , these plates will identify the rails type and who it belongs to IE operations or projects. And other information such as how long it is and its wear / condition. The sensors under a passenger train with then read the tags as it travels up and down the line and then stores the data onboard, on a hard drive. Then at a given time (2am?) , when the train is back in the open at the depot it will transmit this information via the cloud, that will subsequently automatically update our scrap track maps with the location of all rail on each line. Algorithms could then flag up the need to book trains to clear the rail and to check for sufficient rail for rerails and book for replenishment.
Can you provide this system? or know someone who can provide advice on where the hardware and tech needed for this can be sourced? Can you suggest how it can be developed?
I also am in consultation with Network rail and it looks like we may join forces to develop this system. I have set a 24 month time frame for it to be designed , tested and be fully operational , so by 1 June 2019. But sooner the better!!
Can you help me? or do you know someone you can put me in contact with who can? in our worldwide community?
Day Inspections Manager at Transport for London
7yJim, with the help of the MAXIMO team i'm in the process of changing the generic descriptions for scrap and new rail so they are more defined and then we can display on GIS the locations of line side storage of new and scrap rail. It might be easier to fit any transmitter to the ultrasonic trolley than on a passenger train, the approvals process might be easier.
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