Rail Safety and Survey

Innovating rail data capture and survey applications

Rail operators managing the world’s approximately 1.3 million kms of rail track face multiple challenges of an ageing infrastructure, increased usage demand, stringent safety requirements and the impacts of climate change, with sites vulnerable to flood, landslide and storm damage.

To deliver targeted maintenance, operators need efficient, continuous and reliable monitoring of tracks, groundworks (including sleepers and gravel) and signalling equipment, sometimes in tough and remote conditions, with the potential to use the data to better predict future maintenance demands.

Working with Newbury Innovation on engineering data management and storage rack-based interface systems

Newbury Innovation collaborates with several partners that provide technology to the rail industry, developing complex power, control, data capture and survey systems for customers across North America, Europe and Australia.

The Rail industry provides a number of unique equipment challenges including the very high data rates needed to support complex mobile assessment equipment in a challenging mounting settings.

Newbury Innovation has a deep understanding of the regulatory landscape for rail including the Safety Integrity Levels (SIL) rating, a measure of how well a safety system performance reduces risk, for both complex components and overall SIL rated systems.

This knowledge combined with Newbury Innovation’s industry experience has seen our teams collaborate with major rail technology suppliers to develop conforming hardware, firmware and software that exceeds the long service life demanded by rail operators.

Find out how Newbury Innovation can help you deliver ground-breaking, cost-competitive technology solutions for rail.