Railways require ongoing, reliable monitoring solutions to ensure safety, manage risks, and improve decision making. From track bed conditions to stability of the surrounding earthworks, an efficient monitoring solution can provide advanced warnings of potentially dangerous events and optimise maintenance.
Enhance / Increase safety
Manage risk
Improve decision making
Increase productivity
Common challenges experienced in monitoring railway sites
The ongoing monitoring of railways is crucial to support the safety and continuous maintenance of railway systems. Reliability in remote, hard to access, and underground environments is a constant challenge.
These challenges can be addressed with reliable, wireless, real-time solutions that increase safety, reduce risk and liability, and increase the efficiency of the railway network.
Our Solution
Geotechnical, structural, and environmental sensors are monitored by Ackcio Beam, a wireless mesh-based solution allowing operators to access sensor data in real time and remotely. Ackcio Mesh reduces the challenges of obstructions, high noise, and large, complex sites that interfere with connectivity.
Through smarter, data-driven decisions, Ackcio Beam enhances safety and improves risk management, which ultimately increases productivity.
Key Benefits
Reliable data delivered from underground locations in real-time for smarter decision making
Improved sensor data integrity and flexible system placement using Ackcio Mesh
Enhanced risk management
Better onsite safety
Increased project efficiency
Reduced costs
Ability to accurately predict and prevent ongoing maintenance
Can show compliance to various regulation codes
Testimonials
Elson Kong
Planning Engineer
at Kimaro
By using Ackcio Beam, we managed to save a significant amount of time, man-hours, labour costs, and comfortably fulfilled all of our monitoring requirements. It certainly made our work easier when monitoring the vast network of strain gauges we had deployed across the site
Alexandra Emhjellen
Geologist
at Cautus Geo AS
The Ackcio monitoring system reduced the time it took our personnel to install the instruments and monitoring system in the field, which benefited both us and our client due to cost savings. The monitoring has shown to be incredibly stable. We are very happy with Ackcio’s wireless system, knowing that the risk of sensor cables breaking is eliminated.
Terence Teo
General Manager
at CEP Services
We’re glad we recommended Ackcio for this project. Given the vastness of the deployment area, the challenging site conditions, and our requirement to reliably acquire data at short intervals, this solution really ticked all the boxes.
Applications
Ackcio Beam provides a complete, end-to-end wireless monitoring solution for railway operations including
Railways
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Monitoring Total Pressure
Ackcio BEAM-AN-S1 (1 channel) Nodes automate the monitoring of a pressure cell which measures total earth pressure under the road.
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Ackcio Mesh
Ackcio’s patented long-range wireless MESH network connects the Ackcio Nodes to the Ackcio Gateway. The mesh network is self-healing, enhancing the transmission reliability. The ability to ‘hop’ significantly increases the reliability in complex
environments and offers the ability to increase aggregate range if required. The system is highly flexible and scaleable.
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Bridge Arch Displacement Monitoring
Ackcio BEAM-AN-S4 (4 channels) Nodes automate the monitoring of a multi-point in-line extensometer that measures vertical and horizontal deformation at the bridge arch.
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Monitoring Stress Changes
Ackcio BEAM-VW-S8 (8 channels) Nodes automate the monitoring of a vibrating wire stressmeter in the bridge arch.
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Ackcio Gateway
The Ackcio BEAM-GW receives sensor data from the Nodes within the network. Ackcio’s Snape software that runs on the Ackcio Gateway is used to configure and manage the project. It also provides the option to push the data via FTP/API to a selected server and/or software of your choice.
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Ackcio Nodes
Each battery-operated Node acquires data from multiple sensors and transmits the sensor data wirelessly through the Ackcio Mesh network to the Ackcio Gateway.
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Detecting Rock Falloff
Ackcio BEAM-VW-S8 (8 channels) Nodes monitors rock falloff from the slope through connected to a rock fall detection system activited by vibration signal.
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Slope Stability Monitoring
Ackcio BEAM-TM Nodes can be used to monitor the slope stability on and around the railway.
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Slope Health Monitoring - Displacement
Ackcio BEAM-AN-S1 (1 channel) and BEAM-AN-S4 (4 channels) Nodes ensure real-time monitoring of displacement sensors to ensure the safety of the slope.
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Subsoil Settlement Displacement Monitoring
In-depth lateral displacements of the subsoil due to instability and/or presense of discontinuities can be monitored using a string of in-place inclinometers connected to Ackcio BEAM-DG Nodes.
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Ground Settlement Monitoring
Ackcio BEAM-AN-S4 (4 channels) Nodes automate the monitoring of a multi-point borehole extensometer (MPBX) that measures vertical deformation at various depths.
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Monitoring Pore Water Pressure
Piezometers measuring the underground pore water pressure are monitored in real-time using Ackcio BEAM-VW-S1 (1 channel) and BEAM-VW-S8 (8 channels) Nodes.
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Track Monitoring
Ackcio wireless tiltmeter BEAM-TM Nodes measure track conditions including rail cant, twist and height variation.
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Settlement Displacement Monitoring
Settlement/lateral displacement of the slope is monitored by leading brands of digital in-place-inclinometers (IPI's)/MPBX/extensometers/SAAs in real-time using Ackcio BEAM-DG Nodes.
Track condition monitoring
Earthworks
Bridges
Tunnels
And More
