‘IoT proving its worth to rail industry at a time of crisis’
A crisis such as the current corona pandemic shows how dependent vital processes are on manual operations. According to tech companies, it would be good to learn lessons…
Liveblog RailTech Europe 2019 Day 3 – Predictive maintenance in rail
Thursday 28 March is the third day of RailTech Europe at Jaarbeurs Utrecht. Today’s topic is predictive maintenance in rail. In this liveblog you can read everything that…
Algorithm leads to breakthrough in measuring trackside trees
Data scientist Anahita Khosravipour has developed an algorithm which measures the size, shape and height of trees next to a track, as well as how close they are…
Railway operators and track managers join forces in infrastructure measuring
Railway infrastructure monitoring becomes more and more sophisticated. Infrastructure managers analyse not only the conditions of the rails but also the trains running on it. Sometimes, infrastructure managers…
‘Use machine learning to predict track maintenance’
Machine learning is an important asset to predict where track maintenance will be needed, Dirk Bothof of Asset Insight says. Machine learning is an artificial intelligence technique that…