RailComm deployed successfully its new iTrack intelligent railcar yard inventory solution at Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks. Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks serves customers mostly in chemicals and bulk goods and also handles the movement and storage of freight cars for other railroads including CSX, NS, CN, G&W’s AGR, and CG Railway.
The patented iTrack solution is a new capability of RailComm’s yard automation portfolio. It is a real-time fully automatic railcar inventory system that allows yard personnel to identify and follow the location of every car and locomotive entering the facility.
The solution integrates with the RailComm DOC system, Car Identification Portal (which includes cameras) to detect every railcar (even cars with defective Automatic Equipment Identification AEI tags) as it enters and exits the yard, and RailComm’s Insight monitoring and analytics platform which provides a dashboard with live video feed and system health monitoring and analytics.
Wheel sensors located at each switch turnout provide automatic and continuous tracking of each railcar throughout the yard. As rail cars move through the yard, the system knows their exact location, which can be searched at anytime from anywhere via a graphical Web-based interface.
RailComm’s iTrack solution is designed to provide managers, supervisors and customers with the yard-status information they need to make decisions, such as the ordered list of cars on a track, car dwell times, track length availability, and car arrival and departure times. RailComm’s iTrack solution also keeps track of missing AEI tags, or tags with incorrect car information, and allows the user to make corrections as needed. With analytics and reporting capabilities, the system supports management with decision-making.
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