For future "Smart Car" capabilities and many of the monitoring capabilities desired for condition-based maintenance, it is important to be able to incorporate wireless technologies across the entirety of the railway infrastructure. Such a design would allow monitoring of car and locomotive technologies, incorporate the capabilities of "smart AEI" tags, with identification and cargo updating, automate the assembly and tracking of consists, and provide many other services. To date, no workable designs have been created which provide all of these capabilities and offer compatibility with existing and emerging standards.
Key Features and Benefits
- Ability to incorporate wireless technologies across the entirety of railway infrastructure.
- Automates the assembly and tracking of consists.
- No other design has been created that provides all of these capabilities and offers compatibility with existing and emerging standards.
IEM's new WISENet™ technology fills this gap. WISENet™ provides car-level discrimination of units, with each individual car able to control and run its own local network of car-level sensors, and a central "car node" providing inter-car and system-level communication with gateways to main data processing systems - gateways which may be trackside, on board a locomotive, or in a railyard - as appropriate and needed. WISENet™ is a highly flexible and powerful monitoring and tracking system for all forms of data needed for modern railroad operation.