Network Rail Infrastructure Limited

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Rail infrastructure operators globally have begun moves towards smart intelligent network infrastructure built upon the placement of hundreds of thousands of various sensors/device types on and along tracks as required for predictive/preventative maintenance. Deployment is currently significantly hampered by affordability and maintenance liability of suit...

Railways cost too much to maintain and put workers at risk while looking for track defects. Our proposal uses existing trackside assets in a new way that has the potential to do away with the need to send out workers onto the tracks looking for problems instead of solving them. Railways are high-value national assets and are a critical part of national tr...

This project will develop novel range finding and 3D imaging systems which will be used for driver assistance and the autonomous vehicles of the future. The cameras are based on detecting single photons (light particles) in the infra-red region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Depth information is gained by measuring the time of flight of the photons from...

Current inspection of rail track defects utilises Network Rail's four Ultrasonic Testing Units (UTUs) that traverse the UK network, 64,000 miles of track, in 750 shifts per year. With a limitation of 30 miles per hour for rail track inspection, UTUs cannot meet the high demand and increased capacity of customers. Every day, 4.8 million people travel by tr...

Over the next few years, the construction sector will witness a wave of infrastructure projects (£60 billion of spend each year over the next decade) and ground work will be undertaken to set future financial settlements. The pace of this growth, and the size of this opportunity, demands a construction sector that is the best in the world. To maximise the...

"The Innovate funded Prometheus project will develop a fully autonomous robot capable of geo-technical surveys in unknown voids for use in the mining, water infrastructure monitoring and offshore industries. This robot will be able to be automatically deployed and recovered through a standard restricted access bore of 150mm diameter, significantly increas...

"In this 18-month project, self-powered Sensors for monitoring key parameters affecting the performance of the railway infrastructure (load, temperature, shock, etc.) will be developed, deployed, tested and evaluated (move from TRL2-3 to TRL7). The Sensors will combine Ilika's Stereax(r) solid-state battery technology and Smart Component Technologies Ltd ...

Switches & Crossings' (S&C's) are the costliest and most safety critical asset within the rail infrastructure to maintain. Smart Component Technologies (SCT), and their collaborators University of Birmingham, CHG Electrical Ltd and Network Rail, will develop through this project a technology that can detect track voids and measure nose impact at S&C's, as...

Only a third of passengers on the UK's railways seem happy with the wifi service they receive on the train. People increasingly expect free and reliable internet wherever they go and are frustrated that train journeys interrupt the entertainment and communications they value for lifestyle and work. The problem is not for lack of attention. The Government ...

The demand for train-to-track communications are proliferating; with in-cab signalling, passenger WiFi, remote CCTV, passenger counting, e-ticketing and remote condition monitoring (RCM), passenger information systems (PIS), seat reservation systems, driver advisory systems and many other applications jostling for bandwidth. Many of these applications req...

RODIO is an industrial research project developing a scalable solution to address the complex challenges of remote condition monitoring (RCM) of rail tracks. The RCM challenges identified by Network Rail include tree fall, rock fall, trespassing, animal intrusion, landslide and subsidence. The emerging internet-of-things (IoT) technologies can offer low-p...