To increase railway use efficiency, the European Railway Traffic Management System
(ERTMS) Level 3 requires all trains to constantly and reliably self-monitor and report their …

Surveillance plays a vital role in protecting infrastructure facilities of a country and improving
detection of cross-border activities. Compared to traditional surveillance systems, wireless …

Ensuring rail safety is a priority for the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and the
railroad industry in North America. One such endeavor is to leverage Wireless Sensor …

Operational safety and security are the key concerns of the North American railroad industry.
Of growing importance is the ability for real-time identification, monitoring, and fault alerting …

This paper presents the background study, development, and testing of a monitoring system
for an intermodal freight wagon. The prototype of the onboard unit, developed by the …

In recent years, much research has been conducted on the use of wireless sensor networks
(WSN) for monitoring the conditions of railway vehicles. In WSNs for vehicle condition …

In this paper, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
approaches are analyzed given that represent both emerging and key role for Intelligent …

The North American freight railroad industry continuously strives towards improvements in
the safety and security of freight transportation. One key effort focuses on the use of Wireless …

In the last years freight wagons monitoring is getting growing attention from the railway
sector. Wagon wireless monitoring could be considered part of the IoT world. The Railway …

Abstract Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) devices are designed and deployed in sensing
fields for various applications such as weather monitoring, human surveillance, animal …