A device supplies energy to a sensor arrangement in a rail vehicle. The device has a housing in which there is arranged a coil which can be inductively coupled to a motor cable carrying an alternating current. The housing is embodied to enclose part of a length of the motor cable, and the coil is wound around an annular coil core which concentrically or substantially concentrically surrounds the motor cable. The housing has multiple parts including at least one first and one second housing part. The annular coil core is implemented in multiple parts and a first coil core part is arranged in the first housing part and a second coil core part is arranged in the second housing part. The housing is further embodied to mechanically secure the motor cable to a component of the rail vehicle and/or to mechanically connect the motor cable to a further motor cable.

A system and a method for monitoring pressure inside a railway vehicle comprise a carriage pressure detection device, a control device, and an alarm device. The control device is configured to receive and process a pressure signal collected by the carriage pressure detection device, perform calculation on and analyze the collected data, and transmit an alarm signal to the alarm device as an alarm when a preset alarm condition is met. When a pressure protection device fails, pressure changes inside the vehicle are monitored in real time by the carriage pressure detection device functioning independently of the pressure protection device.

The current invention relates to a method for monitoring the configuration of a train, the train comprising a plurality of railway vehicles coupled to each other, each of the railway vehicles comprising a monitoring module on each end, each monitoring module comprising a unique identifier, a low power radio configured to have a range within free space of at least 3 m and at most 10 m, a memory and a communication means to wirelessly communicate with a processing unit. The inventions also relates to a device for monitoring the configuration of a train.

A control method for a train includes outputting an emergency brake instruction after detecting that a train control and management system is faulty, and outputting an emergency brake release instruction after detecting that the train control and management system is not faulty.

In a rail system and method for operating a rail system having a rail-guided mobile part and having a central control system, the mobile part includes a device for acquiring the position of the mobile part, the mobile part has a first drive, in particular a traction drive, the mobile part has a current acquisition device, the mobile part has a processor for evaluating the current-value profile acquired between a first position and a second position, the processor as a device for evaluating the current-value profile is configured such that the processor determines as an evaluation value tuples which include at least an item of position information and a value determined from the current-value profile, the processor is connected with the aid of a data transmission channel to the central control system for the transmission of the value tuples, the central control system is adapted to monitor the value tuples and monitors the respective value determined from the individual current profile for an exceeding of a permissible measure of a deviation from a predefined value, in particular a setpoint value.

A method for odometric monitoring of a rail vehicle includes recording measured values with a sensor in the rail vehicle, and calculating location information and/or speed information from the measured values. The measured values and/or the location information and/or the speed information is stored, and patterns for the measured values and/or the location information and/or the speed information are generated by evaluating the already acquired measured values and/or the location information and/or the speed information. The currently acquired measured values and/or the location information and/or the speed information are synchronized with at least one pattern, and the occurrence of deviations from the patterns is output via an interface. A rail vehicle, a control center, a computer program product and a provision apparatus for the computer program product are also provided.

A vehicle control system is provided for controlling adhesion of wheels to a route surface. The control system includes one or more processors configured to determine adhesion values representative of adhesion between the wheels of a vehicle and the route surface based on angular speeds of the wheels. The one or more processors are configured to generate a target slip value for the wheels that are coupled with at least two different axles of the vehicle by processing the adhesion values and modifying the target slip value continuously in time to maximize an average value of the adhesion values of the wheels. The one or more processors also are configured to control a torque applied to at least one of the axles based on the target slip value.

Systems and methods for adjusting operation of a train are disclosed. A method may include: receiving one or more infrared images of a brake line of the train; detecting one or more leaks of the brake line based on the one or more infrared images; and adjusting a brake command based on the detected one or more leaks.

The embodiments of the present application disclose an anti-collision method and apparatus for trains in a cooperative formation. The anti-collision method includes: determining whether it is necessary to control the current train to brake; determining whether a real-time distance between the current train and a previous adjacent train in the same formation as the current train is greater than a preset minimum safety distance; controlling, under a condition that the real-time distance is less than the preset minimum safety distance, the current train to perform electromagnetic braking; and calculating, under a condition that the real-time distance is greater than the preset minimum safety distance, a real-time safety distance between the current train and the previous adjacent train, and controlling, under a condition that the real-time distance is less than the real-time safety distance, the current train to brake.

The current invention relates to methods and systems for evaluating a filling state of a load bearing means by means of a monitoring system comprising a sensing module; said load bearing means adapted for being carried by a transport unit; said load bearing means comprising a loading space; said sensing module situated in proximity to said load bearing means and outside of said loading space; said sensing module comprising an emitter, a receiver, an evaluator and a memory comprising calibration data; said sensing module configured for carrying out a plurality of steps; wherein a spacing S between said emitter and said receiver does not exceed 200 mm; and wherein a maximum dimension M of said load bearing means is not smaller than 4 m.