Industry 4.0 technologies applied to the rail transportation industry: A systematic review

C Laiton-Bonadiez, JW Branch-Bedoya… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: Industry 4.0 technologies have been widely used in the railway industry,
focusing mainly on maintenance and control tasks necessary in the railway infrastructure …

Powering the WSN node for monitoring rail car parameters, using a piezoelectric energy harvester

B Dziadak, M Kucharek, J Starzyński - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Monitoring of railroad wagons is important for logistical processes, but above all for safety.
One of the key parameters to be monitored is the temperature of the axle box and the …

Innovative integrated solution for monitoring and protection of power supply system from railway infrastructure

M Andrusca, M Adam, A Dragomir, E Lunca - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper describes an innovative integrated solution for monitoring and protection of the
power supply system of electric traction. The development of electronics devices, new …

Performance of a novel enhanced sparrow search algorithm for engineering design process: Coverage optimization in wireless sensor network

R Liu, Y Mo - Processes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Burgeoning swarm intelligence techniques have been creating a feasible theoretical
computational method for the modeling, simulation, and optimization of complex systems …

Improvement of the last mile-specific issues in railway freight transport

A Šperka, M Vojtek, J Široký, J Čamaj - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
The last mile is characterized as the last step of delivery to the customer from the logistics
point of view. It is necessary to aim and fulfill all customers' needs mainly during the process …

Budgeting for the adoption of sensors on connected trains

R Bridgelall, DD Tolliver - Transportation Planning and Technology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Railroads can save significant sums of money by deploying multi-sensor track scanners on
connected trains to detect track and roadbed problems that could cause accidents. However …

[PDF][PDF] Condition Monitoring of Rail Infrastructure and Rolling Stock using Acceleration Sensor Data of on-Rail Freight Wagons.

T Otte, AF Posada-Moreno, F Hübenthal… - …, 2022 - publications.rwth-aachen.de
In various industry sectors all over the world, the ongoing digital transformation helps to
unlock benefits for individual components, involved processes, stakeholders as well as the …

An Internet of Things-based Solution for Monitoring Freight Train Carriages

RSL Moriello, E Caputo, F Gargiulo… - … on Metrology for …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The advancement of faster and more efficient railway vehicles necessitates robust onboard
fault detection systems to enhance railway assets. Real-time condition monitoring is pivotal …

Special Issue “Active Flow Control Processes with Machine Learning and the Internet of Things”

D Deb, VE Balas, M Kaushik - Processes, 2023 - mdpi.com
The desired changes in flow characteristics are obtained by flow control, which implies
manipulating flow behavior such as drag reduction, mixing augmentation, or noise …

[PDF][PDF] IoT: Understanding from a Management Perspective for the Railway Sector

G John, A Ganah - Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture, 2024 - clok.uclan.ac.uk
The railway industry is a key part of any country's transportation infrastructure. The railway
industry supports the competitive advantage of the country's economy, providing a vital link …