WIRAILCOM

Wireless Railway Condition Monitoring

Coordinatore	TWI LIMITED    more  Organization address address: Granta Park, Great Abington city: CAMBRIDGE postcode: CB21 6AL contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Debbie Cognome: Mcconnell Email: send email Telefono: +44 1223 899088
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	1˙479˙132 €
EC contributo	1˙141˙000 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2012
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME
Anno di inizio	2012
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2012-11-01   -   2014-10-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	TWI LIMITED  Organization address address: Granta Park, Great Abington city: CAMBRIDGE postcode: CB21 6AL contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Debbie Cognome: Mcconnell Email: send email Telefono: +44 1223 899088	UK (CAMBRIDGE)	coordinator	66˙825.00
2	WESTFALISCHE LOKOMOTIV-FABRIK REUSCHLING GMBH & CO KG  Organization address address: EICKENER STRASSE 45 city: HATTINGEN postcode: 45525 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Roland Cognome: Siepmann Email: send email Telefono: +49 2324 5000 30 Fax: +49 2324 5000 49	DE (HATTINGEN)	participant	298˙902.80
3	SENCEIVE LIMITED  Organization address address: TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD 97 city: London postcode: W1T 4TP contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Michael Cognome: Maddison Email: send email Telefono: +44 7970 892 171	UK (London)	participant	253˙812.50
4	"AIRTREN, S.L."  Organization address address: CALLE JOSE LOMBANA IGLESIAS 14 city: MADRID postcode: 28023 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Antonio Cognome: Puyol Gómez Email: send email Telefono: 34609046875 Fax: 34913076876	ES (MADRID)	participant	221˙044.40
5	BK TELEMATICS LTD  Organization address address: KATECHAKI 60 city: Athens postcode: 11125 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Elias Cognome: Bouras Email: send email Telefono: +30 210 677 0575 Fax: +30 210 677 0574	EL (Athens)	participant	209˙175.20
6	MER MEC SPA  Organization address address: VIA OBERDAN 70 city: MONOPOLI postcode: 70043 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Patrizia Cognome: Sforza Email: send email Telefono: 390809000000 Fax: 390809000000	IT (MONOPOLI)	participant	50˙390.10
7	THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM  Organization address address: Edgbaston city: BIRMINGHAM postcode: B15 2TT contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: May Cognome: Chung Email: send email Telefono: +44 121 4158 202 Fax: +44 121 4146 056	UK (BIRMINGHAM)	participant	40˙850.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Railway operators rely on remote condition monitoring (RCM) of assets to enable continued safety and efficiency. It is not currently cost effective to monitor every asset; some vehicle systems, such as freight trains, use no technology and are therefore difficult to add modern electronic systems to. There are neither the power systems nor the data systems available to link a new monitoring system into. This creates a block to technology uptake as the external stakeholders, such as monitoring system providers, find it difficult to enter the market. Therefore, there is a need for a solution that overcomes these technical barriers and yet is still cost effective. The application of wireless sensor networks addresses the problems faced by SMEs in the sector as it will remove the requirements for data cabling. Appending this technology with energy harvesting would further reduce the need for cabling to be provided to power the equipment. The wireless technology market is rapidly expanding in many sectors and wireless inspection and monitoring is now commonplace. However, there is still a significant opportunity for SMEs to penetrate the European railway market.

WiRailCom will develop a wireless condition monitoring solution that will open up a market for European SMEs. The key technological development is the introduction of state of the art concepts such as energy harvesting and wireless data transfer technology. Therefore, a significant part of this work will address safety aspects such as signal interference and will lead to the support of associated European standards. The project output will lead to the development of a supply chain based on RCM equipment, wireless equipment, energy harvesting equipment, condition monitoring software and hardware and systems integration with legacy railway systems. The high level objective is to deliver improvements through the application of advanced technology to the design of assets and the associated maintenance cycle.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Innovative inspection technology is critical to the safe expansion of rail transport capacity to curb carbon dioxide emissions from road transport. EU-funded scientists are delivering a modern wireless network solution.