The Fundamental Approach of the Digital Twin Application in Railway Turnouts with Innovative Monitoring of Weather Conditions

Kampczyk, A.; Dybeł, Katarzyna

doi:10.3390/s21175757

Cited by 45 publications

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“…This technology allows the capture of real-time data of the train, railroads and other railway infrastructure assets in order to convert the data into information that helps the improvement of the railway processes. The IoT technology has been used in multiple train transportation problems such as freight-train parameters monitoring [ 60 ], railway-tunnel structure monitoring [ 29 ], weather monitoring in railroads [ 30 ], train localization [ 63 ] and train dispatching systems [ 90 ].…”

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Industry 4.0 Technologies Applied to the Rail Transportation Industry: A Systematic Review

Laiton-Bonadiez

Bedoya

Zapata-Cortés

et al. 2022

Sensors

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Background: Industry 4.0 technologies have been widely used in the railway industry, focusing mainly on maintenance and control tasks necessary in the railway infrastructure. Given the great potential that these technologies offer, the scientific community has come to use them in varied ways to solve a wide range of problems such as train failures, train station security, rail system control and communication in hard-to-reach areas, among others. For this reason, this paper aims to answer the following research questions: what are the main issues in the railway transport industry, what are the technologic strategies that are currently being used to solve these issues and what are the technologies from industry 4.0 that are used in the railway transport industry to solve the aforementioned issues? Methods: This study adopts a systematic literature review approach. We searched the Science Direct and Web of Science database inception from January 2017 to November 2021. Studies published in conferences or journals written in English or Spanish were included for initial process evaluation. The initial included papers were analyzed by authors and selected based on whether they helped answer the proposed research questions or not. Results: Of the recovered 515 articles, 109 were eligible, from which we could identify three main application domains in the railway industry: monitoring, decision and planification techniques, and communication and security. Regarding industry 4.0 technologies, we identified 9 different technologies applied in reviewed studies: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud Computing, Big Data, Cybersecurity, Modelling and Simulation, Smart Decision Support Systems (SDSS), Computer Vision and Virtual Reality (VR). This study is, to our knowledge, one of the first to show how industry 4.0 technologies are currently being used to tackle railway industry problems and current application trends in the scientific community, which is highly useful for the development of future studies and more advanced solutions. Funding: Colombian national organizations Minciencias and the Mining-Energy Planning Unit.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Industry 4.0 Technologies Applied to the Rail Transportation Industry: A Systematic Review

Laiton-Bonadiez

Bedoya

Zapata-Cortés

et al. 2022

Sensors

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“…Asset managers should have access to continuous information related to the railroad conditions to allow for the early detection of any surface abnormalities caused by temperature change, degradation, or component failure and to have the ability to automate and modify railway turnouts or railway switches automatically, in case of an emergency. In that manner, Digital Twins with its capability of integrating multi-sourced data such as data collected by sensors depicting the railroad conditions and weather conditions allows it to act as a centralized data source that can act as a traffic management and control system [28,29]. The authors of [28] applied the concept of Digital Twins to monitor railway turnouts, a very complicated system by nature of design and construction.…”

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Perspective Chapter: Roadmap to a Holistic Highway Digital Twin – A Why, How, and Why Framework

Ammar¹,

Nassereddine²,

Dadi³

2024

Critical Infrastructure - Modern Approach and New Developments

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The advent and spread of the COVID-19 pandemic shifted the world’s focus toward investing in social structure projects that would improve urbanization and enhance equity. This shift compiled with the emergence of innovative technologies namely Digital Twins, allowed for investigating new approaches for designing and delivering infrastructures, thus paving the road toward smarter infrastructures. Smart infrastructures achieved by connecting the physical aspect of the infrastructure with its digital aspect will allow for optimizing the performance of infrastructure systems by digitally enhancing the asset value and leveraging the value of asset data. Digital Twins can be applied to several civil infrastructure projects including the transportation sector. Also, Digital Twins can be implemented for different spatial scales, on a national level, on the level of the city, and for a network of assets. Few case studies described how to transfer a Digital Twin vision to practice; thus, this chapter presents the journey for a holistic Digital Twin for a highway system formed of a network of assets by discussing the Why, How, and What framework. A holistic highway Digital Twin will allow for cross-asset data analysis, conducting predictive and preventive maintenance, and efficient resource allocation based on data-driven decision-making.

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“…UbiBot's IoT sensors can operate in the temperature range –20 to +60 °C to monitor humidity in the range of 10% to 90% RH (relative humidity) and can communicate with smart devices using Wi‐Fi. [ 9 ] The Arduino Oplà kit integrates MKR Wi‐Fi 1010 board with onboard sensors to provide a personalized weather station for home applications by gathering temperature and humidity levels and wirelessly transmitting the collected data to the user. [ 10 ] NFC (near field communication) tags that work based on inductive coupling at 13.54 MHz have also been used for sensing applications due to the portability and handiness of the reader as the tag readers can be integrated onto ubiquitous devices such as cellphones.…”

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Wireless Humidity Sensor for Smart Packaging via One‐step Laser‐Induced Patterning and Nanoparticle Formation on Metallized Paper

Gopalakrishnan

Sedaghat

Krishnakumar

et al. 2022

Adv Elect Materials

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In this work, a scalable and rapid process is developed for creating a low‐cost humidity sensor for wireless monitoring of moisture levels within packaged goods. The sensor comprises a moisture‐sensitive interdigitated capacitor connected to a planar spiral coil, forming an LC circuit whose resonant frequency is a function of environmental humidity. The sensor is fabricated on a commercially available metallized parchment paper through selective laser ablation of the laminated aluminum (Al) film on the parchment paper substrate. The laser ablation process provides a unique one‐step patterning of the conductive Al layer on the paper while simultaneously creating high surface area Al2O3 nanoparticles within the laser‐ablated regions. The intrinsic humidity‐responsive characteristics of the laser‐induced Al2O3 nanostructures provide the wireless sensor with a tenfold higher sensitivity to humidity than a similar LC resonant sensor prepared by conventional photolithography‐based processes on FR‐4 substrates. The frequency change of the sensor is observed to be a linear function within the range of 0−85% RH, providing an average sensitivity of −87 kHz RH−1 with good repeatability and stable performance. Furthermore, the employment of scalable laser fabrication processes using commercially available inexpensive materials renders these technologies viable for roll‐to‐roll manufacturing of low‐cost wireless sensors for smart packaging applications.

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The Fundamental Approach of the Digital Twin Application in Railway Turnouts with Innovative Monitoring of Weather Conditions

Cited by 45 publications

References 26 publications

Industry 4.0 Technologies Applied to the Rail Transportation Industry: A Systematic Review

Industry 4.0 Technologies Applied to the Rail Transportation Industry: A Systematic Review

Perspective Chapter: Roadmap to a Holistic Highway Digital Twin – A Why, How, and Why Framework

Wireless Humidity Sensor for Smart Packaging via One‐step Laser‐Induced Patterning and Nanoparticle Formation on Metallized Paper

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