Cloud IoT DashBoard Advantage
Access your WILD installation from the comfort of your office anywere in the world. With our Cloud Dashboard solution, you do not have to send an engineer at great cost into the jungle or archtic permafrost.
Our scalable cloud solution allow access to WILD installation from anywhere in the world via terrestrial or satellite link in real time. Our cloud dashboard allows you to monitor station activities and update parameters remotely. Railtek Systems WILD solutions comes IoT Cloud ready out of the box and can be activated at any time with ease.
RailTek solutions enable our customers to collect vital rail wheel set data to optimize maintenance strategies to a higher level. Our unique cost-effective solution will improve your rolling stock life cycle and optimize maintenance. Whether you are a rail operator or focused on big data analytics “as-a-service” delivery approach, we have a solution that benefits all kinds of rolling stock maintenance operations.
Cost - Benefit Analysis
Cost Analysis
Cost
Accuracy
Environmental Factors
Railtek Systems
Cost-Effective
Low maintenance required
High
$
WILD
Strain gauge sensors
$$$$$
Poor
Legacy Technology
Not recommended for new designs
-
Temperature related track tensile stresses cause strain gauge sensor inaccuracies
-
High maintenance and frequent expensive complex calibration procedures. Strain sensors have what are known as blind zones, which cause under or no reporting of wheel impacts.
$$$$$
Very Low
On Board
Vibration Sensor
Systems
-
On board vibration systems are susceptible to many false triggers caused by wheel rail track interaction factors such as rail track infrastructure, rail switches, rail joints, bogie to car coupling noise, brake inertia, acceleration inertia and many more
-
Due to above factors alone, on board vibration systems are not suitable for wheel impact measurements and the many potential sources of false alarms will render the data useless
-
High cost per node - each wheel requires a sensor node. Poor results.
-
Limited capabilities without the use of active power sources
Medium
Optical
Cameras
Lasers
$$$$$$$
-
Optical sensors susceptible to environmental factors such as snow, dust, fog, rain, poor light conditions.
-
Requires high software maintenance due to the requirements of high speed camera and computing infrastructure components in remote areas
-
Not able to measure wheel impacts
-
Extremely expensive - customer can usually only afford a single super site
-
Very expensive maintenance
High
-
Fragility many moving parts
-
Ultrasonic sensors needs constant lubrication
-
Very slow measurement speeds
-
High maintenance
