Freight Train monitoring: A Case-Study for the pSHIELD Project

Casola, Valentina; Esposito, Mariangela; Mazzocca, Nicola; Flammini, Francesco

doi:10.1109/imis.2012.51

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“…Casola et al [31], Flammini et al [48] and Maly et al [82] proposed to integrate data from a range of heterogeneous sensors for more holistic condition monitoring. Maly et al [82] performed hot box detection, flat wheel detection, dynamic scaling, and loading gauge detection using commercially available sensors, whereas Casola et al [31] analyzed temperature, humidity, and vibrations among others (the specific sensor types are not stated). The sensors are grouped into units, which operate independently.…”

Section: B Movable Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are a number of promising directions for further research in condition monitoring in the railways. One future direction is a move toward holistic integrated systems [31], [48], [82] which provide near real-time information and alerts. These approaches will integrate data from different sensor systems using sophisticated modeling techniques.…”

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Wireless Sensor Networks for Condition Monitoring in the Railway Industry: A Survey

Hodge

O’Keefe

Weeks

et al. 2015

IEEE Trans. Intell. Transport. Syst.

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In recent years, the range of sensing technologies has expanded rapidly, whereas sensor devices have become cheaper. This has led to a rapid expansion in condition monitoring of systems, structures, vehicles, and machinery using sensors. Key factors are the recent advances in networking technologies such as wireless communication and mobile ad hoc networking coupled with the technology to integrate devices. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be used for monitoring the railway infrastructure such as bridges, rail tracks, track beds, and track equipment along with vehicle health monitoring such as chassis, bogies, wheels, and wagons. Condition monitoring reduces human inspection requirements through automated monitoring, reduces maintenance through detecting faults before they escalate, and improves safety and reliability. This is vital for the development, upgrading, and expansion of railway networks. This paper surveys these wireless sensors network technology for monitoring in the railway industry for analyzing systems, structures, vehicles, and machinery. This paper focuses on practical engineering solutions, principally, which sensor devices are used and what they are used for; and the identification of sensor configurations and network topologies. It identifies their respective motivations and distinguishes their advantages and disadvantages in a comparative review.

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Wireless Sensor Networks for Condition Monitoring in the Railway Industry: A Survey

Hodge

O’Keefe

Weeks

et al. 2015

IEEE Trans. Intell. Transport. Syst.

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188

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“…Nan et al [112] propose a WSN-based solution for freight trains that allows for monitoring rolling bearing through accelerometers, which are actually used to measure the vibrations. Another application for the monitoring of freight trains transporting hazardous materials is presented in [113,114]. The application uses a WSN to measure environmental parameters using heterogeneous sensor technologies.…”

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Towards the Internet of Smart Trains: A Review on Industrial IoT-Connected Railways

Fraga‐Lamas

Fernández‐Caramés

Castedo

2017

Sensors

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Nowadays, the railway industry is in a position where it is able to exploit the opportunities created by the IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) and enabling communication technologies under the paradigm of Internet of Trains. This review details the evolution of communication technologies since the deployment of GSM-R, describing the main alternatives and how railway requirements, specifications and recommendations have evolved over time. The advantages of the latest generation of broadband communication systems (e.g., LTE, 5G, IEEE 802.11ad) and the emergence of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) for the railway environment are also explained together with the strategic roadmap to ensure a smooth migration from GSM-R. Furthermore, this survey focuses on providing a holistic approach, identifying scenarios and architectures where railways could leverage better commercial IIoT capabilities. After reviewing the main industrial developments, short and medium-term IIoT-enabled services for smart railways are evaluated. Then, it is analyzed the latest research on predictive maintenance, smart infrastructure, advanced monitoring of assets, video surveillance systems, railway operations, Passenger and Freight Information Systems (PIS/FIS), train control systems, safety assurance, signaling systems, cyber security and energy efficiency. Overall, it can be stated that the aim of this article is to provide a detailed examination of the state-of-the-art of different technologies and services that will revolutionize the railway industry and will allow for confronting today challenges.

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“…The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed framework have been verified within the pShield Project (2010) (Casola et al, 2010), that gave us the opportunity to verify the application of a WSN deployment in a real scenario to protect a freight train. Our experimental activities in fact, were conducted on a freight car made available by the Italian Railway Authority (RFI/Trenitalia) at Roma Smistamento.…”

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SeNsiM-SEC: secure sensor networks integration to monitor rail freight transport

Casola

Benedictis

Drago

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In recent years, the interest in monitoring infrastructures has spread in many application domains, even because of the number of natural disasters and terrorist attacks. This important activity can be seen in the general context of critical infrastructure protection, such as the freight trains meant for hazardous materials transportation. The design of these systems must answer to several issues: low-cost, easiness of installation, interoperability of information sources, security requirements. The use of wireless sensor networks emerged in this field as a compliant solution to these issues. In this paper, we will present a monitoring system that uses heterogeneous WSN to monitor a freight train transporting hazardous materials. The sensors interact through a security platform in order to share different information. We illustrate some details on the architecture and the software application to prove the feasibility of such system on a real scenario, by discussing the most significant results about measurement parameters and networks performance.

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Freight Train monitoring: A Case-Study for the pSHIELD Project

Cited by 15 publications

References 13 publications

Wireless Sensor Networks for Condition Monitoring in the Railway Industry: A Survey

Wireless Sensor Networks for Condition Monitoring in the Railway Industry: A Survey

Towards the Internet of Smart Trains: A Review on Industrial IoT-Connected Railways

SeNsiM-SEC: secure sensor networks integration to monitor rail freight transport

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