Remote control and routing
Increasing safety, efficiency and productivity with automation.
Increasing safety, efficiency and productivity with automation.
The most essential features of RailComm's Yard Automation platform are its combined remote control of switch machines and intuitive train routing capabilities. This functionality increases efficiency and ensures safety. How? Because all traffic is controlled from a central location. Yard dispatchers now have a safe way to direct traffic in order to protect tracks, workers and other assets while maintenance and inspection tasks are being performed.
Yard employees can support the dispatcher by throwing a switch machine locally with the push of a button or via a field control panel. These steps can help avoid typical injuries that are sometimes caused by the manual alternative. More time for other tasks and invaluable piece of mind.
At RailComm, we believe that automation has to adapt to your needs and not the other way around. That's why RailComm's yard automation solutions are designed from the ground up. This ensures flexibility, interoperability, and scalability. So whether you start with a small set of switches, or overhaul your entire yard or terminal, we'll work with you to ensure you get the best out of the solution.
RailComm's control system is powered by our smart Expandable Automation Controller (EAC). The EAC provides central control and monitoring to a wide variety of products, offering enhanced remote diagnostic capabilities. Importantly, this enables communication to field devices at a ground level.
RailComm's Switch Position Indicators (SPI) provide a visual confirmation of the switch point position. These 3 LED aspect indicators can also provide other important switch machine statuses, e.g. occupancy, gapped switch, or route indicator.
Communications from the field devices to the central server can be completed by installing wired or wireless networks (radio, Ethernet, or cellular). RailComm's communications platform: RADiANT provide a variety of serial and IP data radios - all compatible with other communication methods.
RailComm's Yard Automation system interacts with a variety of OS presence detection and switch protection methods. The most common application employs a wheel sensor system that creates the OS detection zones and trailing side cornering protection of the switch.