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RFID Solution for Railway Track Inspection

Background
Deutsche Bahn or DB is a well-known railway company in Germany. The company was started in 1994 with private joint-stock where the Federal Republic of Germany is the single shareholder. With its widespread infrastructure and railway operations in Europe, the company is ranked second after DHL in terms of the transport network. DB has 34000 Km of railway track and 39000 trains which carry 2 billion passengers every year. This widespread network has brought some challenges too. Regular inspection and track maintenance are the important tasks in the list but a huge railway track has made this activity difficult to track. The manual inspection work is not practical now. Thus, the company has implemented a technology to improve the worker’s efficiency and quality of the inspection.
Challenges
  1. The company uses the manual method for inspection of tracks, which is time-consuming and subject to errors.
  2. Preparing the Inspection report takes lots of time because inspection records are maintained on paper and an officer has to enter all the data manually in the system.
  3. The status of maintenance can’t be shared in real-time with the administration.
Solutions
The Deutsche Bahn company choose Shenzhen Chainway Information Tech. Co. to provide its C5000 mobile computer for this solution. This multifunction device comes with a 2D barcode scanner and UHF RFID reader. The device updates the inspection work by reading the RFID tags pasted on the tracks. The worker is equipped with mobile computers and they receive assigned task this device. Therefore, railway administration received real-time updates about track maintenance, query, and feedback. C5000 mobile computer uses an inbuilt wireless network which transmits the data from device to railway server.
Application Details
Task Assignment
A specific task can be assigned to workers via PDA. The maintenance staff received their everyday task on a mobile computer.
Maintenance
Data is shared in Real-time. Management or inspector sitting in an office can access the actual maintenance status and also suggest the worker take steps in a specific situation.
Rechecking
The maintenance records are saved in a central database. So, management can recall any data at any time.
Data management
The RFID system is not only generating the automatic inspection report but also guide the inspection officer to plan the best route for maintenance and repair. It helps in proper utilization of resources.

Effects
  1. Now inspection and maintenance work has become simple and fast.
  2. The lightweight mobile computer has replaced the paperwork completely. The worker can enter and save the maintenance record in the device which saves time and improves productivity.
  3. A proper communication channel has been created among workers and management. Every information captured by the devices can be synchronized and save in the backend database.
 
 
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