Delivering tomorrow’s
communication solutions today C
Paul Dobbins of telent outlines the themes it will be focusing on at Railtex 2013.
ontinuing our support of Railtex, telent will again be exhibiting at Earls Court from the same location as previous years, stand C21, which has become our ‘home’ over recent years.
A major theme this year will be how we can monitor, inform on, control, ‘anything’, with station management, remote maintenance and asset condition monitoring being demonstrated.
The MICA open architecture makes a perfect management system tool for technologies such as CCTV, help points and customer information systems, and is well-proven with over 100 systems operational on the DLR, Network Rail and LU in various confi gurations, from a small station to control rooms with over 20 operators controlling an entire railway.
an invaluable service to passengers, who now have real-time information on the status of the London transport network.
Our remote condition monitoring capabilities have grown at a rapid pace. We worked together with one of our major rail maintenance customers to develop a MICA to assist in the
predicting performance.
The progress with this development has been outstanding and telent’s head of asset condition monitoring, Alastair Norman, is hosting a seminar – ‘The Key to Operational Service Improvement’ – on Wednesday 1 May at 12.30pm, and will also be available on the
maintenance of their critical lift and escalator assets to
In the lead-up to the Olympics, telent
developed the information display control aspects of MICA to enable station operators to have a greater control over status reporting and digitally displayed information, creating web pages from multiple live sources and sending to platform displays.
Updates from the central control room are sent over the IP network to the displays, keeping commuters informed on train information, service updates from TfL and even fl ight information for London City Airport. The solution has revitalised the existing displays enabling new functions such as the now familiar ‘Rainbow Boards’, showing the status information of London Underground service and major travel information to be displayed without the need for costly installation. This has allowed for a low-cost route to providing
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stand at times during the three days. increase the
MTBF (mean time between failures) and
reduce the MTTR (mean time to recovery) and therefore drive signifi cant customer service improvement and reduced cost.
The primary driver for this was the historical experience with the performance of lifts and escalators, providing evidence that there was a signifi cant risk that asset failure leads to passenger entrapment, service delays and abatements.
Hydraulic lifts, crucial for the movement of mobility impaired passengers from ticket offi ce level to platform level across a number of key interchange stations, were identifi ed as at risk of causing major issues. As well as developing the technology to provide real-time asset performance status, telent worked closely with the asset managers and manufacturers to ensure that measurements were relevant to
Closely linked with condition monitoring, our remote monitoring in support of communication asset maintenance will also be on the stand. We will be reaffi rming our status as the UK’s leading provider of rail maintenance and outlining our capabilities in the integrated communications sector, including customer information and public address systems, CCTV and converged IP networking and rail MPLS networks.
Visitors can either book ahead for a timeslot with our experts on a specifi c topic (by contacting
geraldine.bilclough@telent. com) or simply visit our stand for advice, a demonstration or a general discussion.
STAND: C21
W:
www.telent.com FOR MORE INFORMATION
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