Wi-Tronix announced the production release of Violet, the industry’s first real-time streaming event recorder of record hardware and software solution onboard locomotives and other transport vehicles.
Commonly known as the “black box,” the event recorder (ER) of record collects and preserves critical system data of an asset such as speed, GPS location, and system health. The preserved data is crucial in investigations to understand accidents, derailments, and “near-miss” situations.
Violet offers streaming locomotive ER data populating in real time on a secure, cloud-based website. Event recorder data of moving locomotives populates on the user’s screen in real time.
The device pulls data like speed, GPS location, Positive Train Control (PTC) messages, camera image thumbnails, videos, and fuel levels and sends the information to the Violet website in real time. The information on the website can be easily accessed by railroad personnel with proper credentials from any computer or mobile device.
With the locomotive’s ER and critical data populated in real time on the secure cloud-based website, railroads’ asset data is preserved, so information is available from anywhere at any time to assist in accident investigation or daily operations.
The hardware combines an event recorder, digital video recorder (DVR), locomotive data acquisition recording system (LDARS), fuel monitoring device, Wi-Tronix Wi-PU, and crash-hardened memory module in a single box. Though Violet’s data fusion technology, users remotely access the Violet software’s streaming, real-time ER and PTC data using their web browser.
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