Mobile Data Recording

Inspection and maintenance of railway assets is a field service provided far away from an employee’s normal office workstation.

For this reason any option that enables employees to gather and document machine-processable information directly at points, crossings, rails, etc., will help optimise the entire business process.

Both keyboard-based and automatic data collection with or without simultaneous localisation in coordinates is a repeatedly implemented and successful state-of-the-art approach.

Specific Solutions

• Use of standard notebooks including, for instance, some type of Data Access Framework solution, plus data delivery to the nearest office. Example: inspection of batteries in equipment rooms of ÖBB Telecommunication Service GmbH

• Use of mobile equipment (based on GSM / UMTS and GNSS / GPS) and direct access to central systems. Example: Installation Assistant (Montageassistent) of ÖBB Telecommunication Service GmbH
• Documented data communicated to central database following on-site measurement. Examples: track measuring car of ÖBB Infrastructure AG, track recording vehicles (Plasser & Theurer EM-SAT)
• High-precision measurement using high-end measuring systems and editing of layout plans with parallel database synchronisation. Example: layout plans edited for lineside and other cables with GPS / GNSS rovers, AutoCAD and close connection to central database
• Inspection of switches and crossings using master / target data provided by the central dispatcher / infrastructure expert. Example: Switch Examination (Weichenrevision) of ÖBB Infrastructure AG

Your Benefit

• Seamless introduction and use of mobile measuring systems is made possible
• Active process design with optimal use of state-of-the-art mobile data recording devices