Sensonic Summer Shenanigans

Hi and welcome to Sensonic stories. We're bringing you our latest edition of interesting rail insights including:

• How to protect elephants from train accidents
• Climate challenges of Heat, Rain, Wind and Cold
• Using light to track train trouble
• Sensonic and Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) in the news
• Our team out and about

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Solving a mammoth problem

Elephants are wonderful yet endangered creatures. They have poor eyesight and so cannot see trains coming until it is often too late. Train vs Elephant usually does not end well.

We're proud to be working with East Coast Railways and Indian Railways to deliver elephant detection and warning systems. We've won a contract to deliver protection to 30 elephant corridors over 400km of railway. We're delivering it now, so we'll hope to bring you further updates as the systems are commissioned, however the clip below shows the concept of how it works.

If you'd like more background on elephant detection then this article from Anshul Gupta published in the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers journal may also be of interest.

Climate change challenges explored

With topsy-turvy seasons, we've seen temperature records tumble, fish setting up home in Mumbai's railways and even tornados toppling trains.

With all this weather weirdness we've written a series of blogs (Weather on the warpath) exploring a number of weather challenges for reliable rail operations and some of the solutions tackling weather challenges including:

• Heat
• Rain
• Wind and
• Cold

There is also an excellent related article published from Grist who explore the challenges of heat and sun-kinks for the railway and how the railway responding.

Making light of tracking train troubles

Fiber optic technology has revolutionised communication. Now its "listening" for problems on railways! This article is a whistle-stop tour of how we're bringing an innovative technology to the railway, what it can offer and a little on how it works. Find out more here

Interested in railway infrastructure monitoring via fiber optic sensing? Want to know more or even request a demo?

Sensonic scrapbook

We've had a few notable articles in the press recently. If you've missed them we're scrapbooking them here so you've got your next coffee breaks reading sorted!

The Institution of Railway Signal Engineers covered the use of Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) for railways in their May journal which goes through a number of technology applications. You can find the article reproduced here.

Railway Track & Structures (RT&S), showcase some of the work we've been doing with CSX and ENSCO, Inc. to demonstrate how disruptive track events can be detected using modern technologies including DAS. You can view the RT&S magazine online clicking on the image below.

Climate change and solutions publisher Grist are getting a little hot under the collar about climate change, and covered heat challenges for railways here with a little input from ourselves.

Out and about with team Sensonic

We like to shine a little light on our stars who make our solutions happen. Callum Weaver Lindsay McInnes and Aditya (Adi) Verma from our UK team shared insights and held live demonstrations of our cutting-edge applications for easy-scale rail infrastructure monitoring at the recent Railway Industry Association Unlocking Innovation event in London.

Lindsay also took to the stage at Transport for London who hosted the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers section meeting. She presented some of the security and landslide detection capabilities that we bring to the railway and a lively Q&A session followed online, in person and in the pub afterwards.

Meet us at Innotrans

Are you going to Innotrans? If yes then pop us on your visit plan - Find us at Stand 180 in Hall 27. Our team is looking forward to meeting you and helping solve some of your railway challenges. Drop us a message via our company page to grab a priority timeslot with our team.

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