Cisco Focuses on Railroads With New IoT Solution

Cisco Systems brings his Internet experience things for the railroad industry, the introduction of a solution that is designed to modernize rail networks to improve security, reduce costs and passengers associated with improved experience. Cisco this week unveiled rail connected, provides a portfolio of networking giant and its partners that the company representatives are both rail operators and passengers benefit in trains.

The Internet of Things (IoT) solution of smart transport solutions major initiative of Cisco aimed to railways and other transport systems includes a wide range of company products of network switches and routers, to the chambers of video surveillance, telepresence video conferencing systems, wireless access Points, digital signage and software.

The solution is designed to cover all aspects of the rail system, trained by the stations themselves. Comes at a time when railroads are a number of challenges due to aging systems detrimental to new federal safety requirements environmental situations have to do. Cisco offer has been developed to address these challenges, Barry Einsig,global executive transport for the business vertical business solutions from Cisco.

The rail comprises four connected activities such as station is connected. The component takes the various disparate parts of the traditional network stations and communication systems, and applies in a standards-based IP network. The network includes everything from routers and switches to video surveillance, digital signage, and video memory. Data anywhere easily allow officials to rail transit passengers and to monitor closely if there is a time delay while video cameras so the railway officials tabs on what is happening in their stations to hold and solve security problems quickly and programming.

Connected Train ensures a rider experience that includes on-board services like Wi-Fi as well as video surveillance and automated operations. Passengers can use the Wi-Fi network to do such tasks as pay fares, keep track of the train schedule, surf the Web and work.Einsig said it makes the railway more efficient and helps the passenger to work with fewer interruptions if that's what they want.

You have complete freedom to be productive while you ride if you have constant connectivity the whole time, he said. Connected Trackside offers a ruggedized IP infrastructure that connects the train to a mobile to Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) backhaul network and then the data center, according to Cisco officials. This part of the overall solutions includes a sensor network that offers computing power at the edge a process Cisco officials call fog computing. 

Railway operators can more quickly learn when there is an issue on the tracks when the data coming back from the edge doesn't fit the norm and the computers on the edge can analyze the data they are getting, and then decide what data to discard and what to send back to the data center, which can help save the railway networking and storage costs.

 Cisco's Positive Train Control technology combines with products from partners to create a communications system that looks to reduce rail accidents such as train collisions and derailments and comply with increasingly strict governmental regulations. Safety was a key factor in developing the Positive Train Control. Citing numbers from the U.S.Federal Railroad Association, two-thirds of rail accidents are caused by human error. The Positive Train Control system can figure out the speed and location of the train, and then can send out alerts or warnings, or even automatically slow or stop the train, according to the company.