Real-time remote monitoring on Vossloh DE18 locomotives
Keep your DE18 fleet in perfect shape with real-time remote monitoring, far beyond the warranty period. Prevent failures and disruptions, digitalise and automate maintenance planning and create actionable alerts for better proactivity and faster response times.
Monitor your assets with one single OEM independent system and manage data and maintenance with ease in one place.
Railnova products for real-time remote monitoring
Railster
Connect to any data source on the DE18, send fault codes and signals to the cloud in real time, update the types of parameters you wish to monitor remotely at any time.
Railgenius
Monitor your fleet’s condition in real time, analyse data, perform and confirm diagnostics and set up automated and actionable alerts.
Railfleet
Manage your fleet and plan corrective and preventive maintenance based on the data coming from your trains and employees or partners.
Out-of-the-box DE18 component interfaces
Railnova’s real-time remote monitoring device Railster enables you to connect to and to monitor the following components on the DE18 out of the box:
Battery
Monitor battery voltage, capacity, current, and the status of both the main and the supporting battery when your DE18 locomotives are running and turned off.
Display
Monitor relevant fault codes in real time and alert employees automatically when they need to take action on the fault codes.
MTU engine
Monitor engine parameters in real-time to spot anomalies in time, and use engine counter data to perform maintenance at the right time.
Fuel
Track and be alerted about (low) fuel levels and refuels, follow up on fuel consumption per route to achieve fuel savings.
GPS
Track the location of your locomotives, the distance they traveled, their speed and their GPS history. Use real-time GPS data for geofencing alerts.
Out-of-the-box use cases for DE18 locomotives
Battery monitoring
A low battery voltage, or battery failure can cause delays, cancellations and even damages to a locomotive battery. Real-time battery monitoring and battery alerts enable you to detect anomalies and avoid battery failures on your DE18 fleet.
Fault code monitoring
Retrieve fault codes in real time, make it easy to cut through irrelevant fault codes or noise by setting up your own (notification) rules and enable people to act quickly on the critical ones.
Operational monitoring
Follow up on the status of all your assets, on fleet availability and potential restrictions. Know which locomotive is used for which traffic, what the composition of the train is or any other relevant operational data from your entire fleet.
Engine monitoring
Keep an eye on live parameters such as coolant temperature and RPM, and automatically be alerted of anomalies. Monitor engine hours for accurate preventive maintenance planning.
Fuel monitoring
Monitor fuel levels and fuel consumption in real time. Be alerted about low fuel levels and refuels, and follow up on fuel consumption per route and load for e.g. fuel saving initiatives.
Geolocation
Keep track of the location and speed of your assets, view GPS history, track traveled kms for maintenance or billing purposes and set up geofence alerts to alert you of location changes or to send alerts to the right people based on the location of your assets.
Digital maintenance planning & communication
Schedule events online and keep a full overview of the planning and progress of all corrective and preventive maintenance interventions for your entire fleet in one place. Share your planning and intervention details with clients, maintainers or other stakeholders.
Usage-based maintenance
Capture readily available real-time counter data, enter counters manually or compute your own to automate your preventive maintenance scheduling based on the actual usage of your DE18 assets.
Corrective maintenance workflow
Have your drivers or hotline personnel report corrective events straight from their phones, tablets or computers. Use QR-codes in your locomotives for fast and user-friendly defect reporting.
Data access
Already have systems in place to analyse DE18 data and to make it actionable? No problem, you can use the Railster to connect to the relevant data sources and to stream the data to your own systems in real time.
Data exploration
Not sure yet what kind of data you can access from your DE18 assets or not sure what you can actually do with that data? Connect the Railster or Railster Development Kit to any data source and explore the available data to identify new use cases.
Your use case
You have another use case in mind for your DE18 locomotives? We’d love to help! Get in touch to discuss a potential solution.
Does the Railnova solution work for your assets?
Not sure whether Railnova’s real-time remote monitoring solution will work for your assets? No matter how you call your DE18 (DE18, BB79000) or which variant you use, we’re happy to provide you with more information, to give you a live demo, or to do a test project, to show you how we provide you with the data you need from your DE18
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